Feminist futures : re-imagining women, culture and development / efited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhavnani, Kum-Kum.

Foran, John.

Kurian, Priya A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Women--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 309 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, [2003]

Summary:

The contributors to this volume work at the intersection of cultural studies, feminist studies, and critical development studies to articulate a new framework that they call Women, Culture, and Development. The editors trace its genealogies and potential in their introduction, and the several parts of the book ground it by applying it to a range of issues including sexuality and the gendered body; environment, technology and science; and the cultural politics of representation. A set of shorter essays, many of them by a new generation of scholars, introduce visions of the future through the prism of exciting new work in the field.

Contents:

1 An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian 1

WID, WAD, GAD ... WCD 4

Women, culture, development: three visions 7

Maria's Stories / Maria Ofelia Navarrete 22

The Woof and the Warp / Luisa Valenzuela 31

Consider the Problem of Privatization / Anna Tsing 35

Part 1 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 46

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, 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 1990s 78

Reproduction and developmental identity 81

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

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 2 Environment, Technology, Science 129

6 Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum / David McKie 131

Warping futures (1): 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 economies 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 / Priya A. Kurian, Debashish Munshi 146

Anthropocentric development: defining the term 147

Ecological rationality and the development project 150

Technoscience and its challenges 152

Transforming deep-rooted values 156

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

Conversations Towards Feminist Futures / Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt 178

Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for Disempowered Communities / Debashish Munshi, Priya A. Kurian 188

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 3 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

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

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 Ba's Une si longue lettre in women, culture, development 245

Conclusions: literature and 'languaging' 251

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-298) and index.

ISBN:

1842770284

1842770292

OCLC:

50124508