Women, feminism and development

Intro -- Contents / Table des Matières -- Foreword / Avant-propos -- INTRODUCTION -- Conceptions et pratiques du développement: contributions féministes et perspectives d'avenir / Concepts and Practices of Development: Feminist Contributions and Future Perspectives -- LES CONCEPTS ET LES MÉTHODES PASSÉS À LA CRITIQUE / CONCEPTS AND METHODS UNDER SCRUTINY -- WID, WAD, GAD. Tendances de la recherche et de la pratique dans le champ du développement -- Indiginization Issues in Women and Development Studies in the Caribbean: Towards a Holistic Approach -- Quand la réalité fait éclater les concepts ... Réflexion méthodologique sur les femmes et le développement dans la région caraibe -- Women and Household Production: An Ecosystem Perspective with a Comparison of Two Studies from Africa -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES FOR WOMEN / LES EFFETS DES POLITIQUES DE DÉVELOPPEMENT SUR LES FEMMES -- Women and Rice Production in West Malaysia -- Alternative Development Strategies for Women in Rural China -- Gender and Economic Reform in Southwest China -- Thankless Tasks and Scarce Incentives: The Work and Life Experiences of Chinese Nurses -- Gender and Development in Thailand: Deconstructing Display -- Programme de planification familiale et liberté reproductive au Yucatan, Mexique -- LE POUVOIR DES FEMMES SUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT : MOBILISATIONS ET ACTIONS / THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS -- Empowerment of Women in Contemporary Uganda: Real or Symbolic? -- The Double-edged Role of Religious Politics in Empowering Women Maquiladora Workers in Juarez, Mexico, from 1968 to 1988 -- Lubicon Lake Cree Women: Responses to Rapid Social Change -- Native Women as Entrepreneurs -- Working towards a Feminist Vision of Development -- TESTIMONIES / TÉMOIGNAGES -- Indian Rights for Indian Women -- Inuit Women in Action.

Women, Feminism and Development illustrates the significance and relevance of work on development carried out from a feminist perspective, with a particular focus on the contribution of Canadian researchers and activists. Covering a wide range of themes and concerns, the volume gathers authors from different organizational backgrounds and academic disciplines, and includes chapters on such different cultural and geographical areas as China, Malaysia and Thailand, Mexico and the West Indies, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana, and Canadian Inuit and Indian communities. A unity of purpose as well as a call for a fundamental reconceptualization of society emerge from these varied voices. Women, Feminism and Development is structured to convey a feminist perspective for the construction of theoretical, methodological, and political approaches to development; a critical evaluation of the effect of development policies on women's lives and gender relations; and an understanding of the multiple strategies that can lead to the empowerment of women and real development