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Feminist futures : re-imagining women, culture and development

English / Editors- Bhavnani, Kum-Kum; Foran, John; Kurian, Priya A: (London: Zed Books, 2003)

Keywords - {Feminism, Women, Social Conditions, Cross Cultural Studies, Sex Role} Status - Checkshelf

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Record Number - {06994}

Contents

Acknowledgements /ix
Notes on Contributors /x
Abbreviations /xvi

1 An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development 1
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian
WID, WAD, GAD ... WCD /4
Women, culture, developments: three visions /7

VISIONS I
Maria's Stories / Maria Ofelia Navarrete 22
The Woof and the Warp / Luisa Valenzuela 31
Consider the Problem of Privatization /Anna Tsing 35

PART ONE Sexuality and the Gendered Body 41
2 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations
of Another Scale Yvonne Underhill-Sem 43
Story of an accident / 43
The tragedy of tragedies: where is culture? /44
Of site and situations 146
The everyday culture of resource politics in Wanigela / 47
Accidents do happen / 50
Tragedies in out-of-the-way places: matters of scale /52
A woman's body scarred / 53

3 Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality
in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin
America Amy Lind and Jessica Share 55
The historical regulation of sexuality and gender in Latin
America /58
Institutionalized heterosexuality and the disciplining of
women's lives / 60
LGBT movements and the politics of development / 64
Queering development: LGBT activism and research in Latin
America / 68

4 Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and
Indian Development Rachel Simon Kumar 74
Gender identity and the Indian state /75
Women's economic identity and rights in the l990s/78
Reproduction and developmental identity / 81
Conclusion / 86

5 Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy
Water Ifi Amadiume 89
Globalization and matriarchitarianism/89
Culturing girls Zambia and Nigeria /92
Gender, sexuality and power ambiguity / 95
Mammy Water, sex and capitalism/98
Imagining choice or isolation? / 99
Fragments and the matriarchal umbrella / 102
Conclusion / 104

VISIONS 2
On Engendering a Better Life / Raka Ray 107
Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders / Jan Nederveen Pieterse 112
Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay
Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development / Dana
Collins 117
Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge
Practices / Peter Chua 124

PART TWO Environment, Technology, Science 129
6 Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and
the Dystopic Continuum David McKie 131
Warping futures (I): Missing matter(s) and the new screen
paranoia of the 1990s / 132
Warping futures (2): Popular science and false worlds / 134
Warping futures (3): First contacts, futures brokers and
predator populations / 136
Transgressive boundaries: planetary post-colonialism, kinship
and triage/137
Reframing evolution: political economics of population control
on another planet / 140
Corporate and institutional scenarios: telling other tales of
non-linear developments / 141
Already imagined futures and the end of the official version / 143

7 Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies
and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies 146
Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi
Anthropocentric development: defining the term / 147
Ecological rationality and the development project / 150
Technoscience and its challenges/152
Transforming deep-rooted values/156
Conclusion / 158

8 Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science
and Development Banu Subramaniam 160
The archaic and the modern / 162
Women, culture, nation / 164
Science, masculinism and the bomb / 166
'Development nationalism' / 168
Science, technology and development /169
Vaastushastra: a case study / 170
Constructing the home and the world / 173
Imagining India / 175

VISIONS 3
Conversations Towards Feminist Futures / Arturo Escobar and
Wendy Harcourt 178
Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for
Disempowered Communities /Debashish Munshi and
Priya A. Kurian188
Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa
Rican Tourist Town / Darcie Vandegrift 194
Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice / Light
Carruyo 200

PART THREE The Cultural Politics of Representation 207
9 Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters:
Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in
Taiwan's Nativist Literature Ming-yan Lai 209
Capitalist development and the rise of nationalist discourse / 210
Urban whores, rural mothers and the moral order of nationalist
discourse /212
Women and the ideological representation of neocolonial
development / 216
Working daughters and the critique of 'sexual commodification/219
Conclusion /222

10 The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the Disempowered' in
Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran Minoo Moallem 225
Not a class war but a war of position: the mostaz'af and the
mostakbar /'the powerful' /227
Cinema and post-coloniality /230
Mostaz'af in the post-revolutionary cinema /232
Children of Heaven and postmodern consumer capitalism / 233
Do Zan and the revolution that did not take place /234
Conclusion /237

11 Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: Women, Culture and
Development from a Francophone/Post-colonial Perspective
Anjali Prabhu 239
Literature and WCD/244
Articulating Mariama BS's Une si longue lettre in women,
culture, development/245
Conclusions: literature and 'languaging' /251

VISIONS 4
The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being,
Resources for Struggle / Linda Klouzal 256
Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution
and 'Development' / Julia D. Shayne 263
Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution
/ John Foran 268

Bibliography 275
Index 299

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