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Summary
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.
The result is a fresh vantage point on pressing issues of global development and a new paradigm for scholars and activists to consider. This interdisciplinary book, spanning diversely situated regions of the world, connects scholarship and social change and juxtaposes the past, present and the future to suggest a new lens through which to look at the situation of women in the global south.
This volume will be of interest to scholars in development, international, global and comparative studies; women's studies; cultural studies; and the humanities and social sciences associated with all of these.
Author Notes
John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she chairs a programme in Women, Culture, Development.
Priya Kurian is senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato.
John Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she chairs a programme in Women, Culture, Development.
Priya Kurian is senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato.
Reviews 1
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This is the second edition of the influential text (CH, May'04, 41-5603) that established the women, culture, and development (WCD) approach to issues of women and development. The WCD approach links insights from feminist studies, cultural studies, and development studies to critique previous frameworks that privilege economics, narrowly define culture, or reproduce hierarchical gender relations. Yet this book is more than a critique; chapters also provide alternative accounts placing the lives and perspectives of women in the Third World at the center of analysis. Contributions are global in scope, interdisciplinary in perspective, and cover a wide range of issues. The volume contains a lively mix of traditional scholarly essays with shorter works. While the second edition retains a handful of essays from the 2003 edition in their original form, most of the works in the volume are new or reworked. The changes highlight both the continuation of top-down political and economic globalization and changes in geopolitical crises and global resistance movements. Most contributions are readable and well written, making this book especially valuable in the classroom. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. --Doreen Jeanette Mattingly, San Diego State University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Notes on Contributors | p. x |
| Abbreviations | p. xvi |
| 1 An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development | p. 1 |
| WID, WAD, GAD ... WCD | p. 4 |
| Women, culture, development: three visions | p. 7 |
| Visions 1 Maria's Stories | p. 22 |
| The Woof and the Warp | p. 31 |
| Consider the Problem of Privatization | p. 35 |
| Part 1 Sexuality and the Gendered Body | p. 41 |
| 2 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale | p. 43 |
| Story of an accident | p. 43 |
| The tragedy of tragedies: where is culture? | p. 44 |
| Of site and situations | p. 46 |
| The everyday culture of resource politics in Wanigela | p. 47 |
| Accidents do happen | p. 50 |
| Tragedies in out-of-the-way places: matters of scale | p. 52 |
| A woman's body scarred | p. 53 |
| 3 Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America | p. 55 |
| The historical regulation of sexuality and gender in Latin America | p. 58 |
| Institutionalized heterosexuality and the disciplining of women's lives | p. 60 |
| LGBT movements and the politics of development | p. 64 |
| Queering development: LGBT activism and research in Latin America | p. 68 |
| 4 Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and Indian Development | p. 74 |
| Gender identity and the Indian state | p. 75 |
| Women's economic identity and rights in the 1990s | p. 78 |
| Reproduction and developmental identity | p. 81 |
| Conclusion | p. 86 |
| 5 Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water | p. 89 |
| Globalization and matriarchitarianism | p. 89 |
| Culturing girls - Zambia and Nigeria | p. 92 |
| Gender, sexuality and power ambiguity | p. 95 |
| Mammy Water, sex and capitalism | p. 98 |
| Imagining choice or isolation? | p. 99 |
| Fragments and the matriarchal umbrella | p. 102 |
| Conclusion | p. 104 |
| Visions 2 On Engendering a Better Life | p. 107 |
| Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders | p. 112 |
| Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development | p. 117 |
| Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices | p. 124 |
| Part 2 Environment, Technology, Science | p. 129 |
| 6 Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum | p. 131 |
| Warping futures (1): Missing matter(s) and the new screen paranoia of the 1990s | p. 132 |
| Warping futures (2): Popular science and false worlds | p. 134 |
| Warping futures (3): First contacts, futures brokers and predator populations | p. 136 |
| Transgressive boundaries: planetary post-colonialism, kinship and triage | p. 137 |
| Reframing evolution: political economies of population control on another planet | p. 140 |
| Corporate and institutional scenarios: telling other tales of non-linear developments | p. 141 |
| Already imagined futures and the end of the official version | p. 143 |
| 7 Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies | p. 146 |
| Anthropocentric development: defining the term | p. 147 |
| Ecological rationality and the development project | p. 150 |
| Technoscience and its challenges | p. 152 |
| Transforming deep-rooted values | p. 156 |
| Conclusion | p. 158 |
| 8 Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science and Development | p. 160 |
| The archaic and the modern | p. 162 |
| Women, culture, nation | p. 164 |
| Science, masculinism and the bomb | p. 166 |
| 'Development nationalism' | p. 168 |
| Science, technology and development | p. 169 |
| Vaastushastra: a case study | p. 170 |
| Constructing the home and the world | p. 173 |
| Imagining India | p. 175 |
| Visions 3 Conversations Towards Feminist Futures | p. 178 |
| Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cybertechnology for Disempowered Communities | p. 188 |
| Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa Rican Tourist Town | p. 194 |
| Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice | p. 200 |
| Part 3 The Cultural Politics of Representation | p. 207 |
| 9 Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature | p. 209 |
| Capitalist development and the rise of nationalist discourse | p. 210 |
| Urban whores, rural mothers and the moral order of nationalist discourse | p. 212 |
| Women and the ideological representation of neocolonial development | p. 216 |
| Working daughters and the critique of sexual commodification | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 222 |
| 10 The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran | p. 225 |
| Not a class war but a war of position: the mostaz'af and the mostakbar/'the powerful' | p. 227 |
| Cinema and post-coloniality | p. 230 |
| Mostaz'af in the post-revolutionary cinema | p. 232 |
| Children of Heaven and postmodern consumer capitalism | p. 233 |
| Do Zan and the revolution that did not take place | p. 234 |
| Conclusion | p. 237 |
| 11 Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: Women, Culture and Development from a Francophone/Post-colonial Perspective | p. 239 |
| Literature and WCD | p. 244 |
| Articulating Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre in women, culture, development | p. 245 |
| Conclusions: literature and 'languaging' | p. 251 |
| Visions 4 The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle | p. 256 |
| Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution and 'Development' | p. 263 |
| Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution | p. 268 |
| Bibliography | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 299 |
