Developing power : how women transformed international development / edited by Arvonne S. Fraser and Irene Tinker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, Arvonne S.

Tinker, Irene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Women in development.

Women in development--International cooperation.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

xxx, 372 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Feminist Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004.

Summary:

In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. At this crucial historical moment, when women in Afghanistan and Iraq are being excluded from "rebuilding" plans in the wake of U.S. wars abroad, "Developing Power" offers both instruction and inspiration.

Arvonne S. Fraser has been coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Irene Tinker was a founder of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women, the International Center for Research on Women, and the Equity Policy Center.

Contents:

Introduction: ideas into action / Irene Tinker

Crossroads for women at the UN / Aziza Hussein

Breaking new ground at the UN and the World Bank / Gloria Scott

The UN, women, and development: the World Conferences on Women / Leticia Ramos Shahani

Walking my own road: how a sabbatical year led to a United Nations career / Margaret Snyder

Walking on eggshells at the UN / Kristen Timothy

Centering wisdom, changing policies: the women in development movement / Irene Tinker

Striding forward: an Italian NGO in the developing nations / Daniela Colombo

The International Women's Tribune Center: expanding the struggle for women's rights

At the UN / Anne S. Walker

ISIS International: a Latin American perspective / Ana María Portugal

Women's world banking / Michaela Walsh

A view from the South: a story of intersections / Devaki Jain

A Caribbean journey: defending feminist politics / Peggy Antrobus

Searching for equality: WID needed at home and abroad / Vivian Lowery Derryck

Seizing opportunities: USAID, WID, and CEDAW / Arvonne S. Fraser

Towards empowerment: influencing the Netherlands aid programs / Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt

Crossing the line: from academia to the WID office at USAID / Jane S. Jaquette

Full circle: from academia to government and back / Elsa M. Chaney

A Brazilian feminist and a new constitution / Jacqueline Pitanguy

Pioneering women's forestry issues at FAO / Marilyn W. Hoskins

Creating a commonwealth sisterhood / Dorienne Rowan-Campbell

Women empowering women through NGOs / Elise Fiber Smith

Gardening for development / Martha Wells Lewis

The Ford Foundation and the power of international sisterhood / Cornelia Butler Flora

Hard minds and soft hearts: a university memoir / Kathleen Cloud

Notes from the middle border: WID on campus / Jane B. Knowles

Straddling borders: global to local / Kathleen Staudt

Education, women, and politics in Kenya / Eddah W. Gachukia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-358) and index.

ISBN:

1558614842

1558614850

OCLC:

56214177