FEMINIST POST-DEVELOPMENT THOUGHT: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation

Book Details

• Author: Kriemild Saunders (ed)

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• ISBN: 9788131609514

• Binding: Hardcover

• Release Date: 01-12-2018

• Number of Pages: 384

About the Book
This groundbreaking collection brings together diverse feminist perspectives to explore whether Third World women should continue along the path of development or instead abandon full-scale modernization in favor of post-development alternatives. It is the first attempt to assess the possibilities and limitations of the post-development path for women.

The book is divided into six parts, each focusing on key issues surrounding gender, development, and the future of women in the Global South. Through essays by leading scholars, the text engages with topics such as the feminization of survival, gender work in bureaucracies, and the role of globalization in shaping women's resistance strategies. The book addresses critical issues, including the intersection of feminism with colonialism, science, reproductive technology, and the broader discourse surrounding development.

Contents

• Introduction

  • Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism – Kriemild Saunders

• Part I: Aiding Development

  • Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective – Jane Parpart

  • Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies – Kathleen Staudt

  • Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India – Ravina Aggarwal

• Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work

  • Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival – Saskia Sassen

  • Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico – Marianne Marchand

• Part III: More Worldly Feminisms

  • Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac – Marnia Lazreg

  • Picture More at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China – Tani Barlow

  • Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities – Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez

• Part IV: The Science Question in Development

  • Mad Cows and Sacred Cows – Vandana Shiva

  • Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development – Banu Subramaniam, James Bever, and Peggy Schulz

  • Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference – Meera Nanda

• Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory

  • Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse – Patience Elabor-Idemudia

  • Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields – Piya Chatterjee

  • Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women's Strategies of Power and Place – Ramona Perez

• Part VI: Other Bodies

  • Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question – Wendy Harcourt

  • Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective – Esther Wangari

  • Gender, Bodies, and Cosmos in Mesoamerica – Sylvia Marcos

About the Author / Editor
Kriemild Saunders is a sociology professor at St. John’s University-Staten Island. Her academic interests include sexuality, queer practices, gender, development, race, and class relations. She has been instrumental in bringing forth diverse perspectives on the intersection of gender and development in her work.