Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's PerspectivesMore than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process. |
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Contents
Preamble | 9 |
Introduction | 15 |
Gender and Class in Development Experience | 23 |
Systemic Crises Reproduction Failures | 50 |
Alternative Visions Strategies and Methods | 78 |
Notes | 97 |
Bibliography | 107 |
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| Title | Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives An Earthscan original New feminist library Women's studies - world affairs |
| Authors | Gita Sen, Caren Grown |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Earthscan, 1988 |
| ISBN | 1853830003, 9781853830006 |
| Length | 120 pages |
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