Description: "In this fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impact of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession and climate change. With a multidisciplinary approach, the volume vividly illustrates the theoretical debates with an array of case studies from around the world"--P. [4] of cover.
Brief description:
Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher living in the Washington, DC area. A native of India, her research and publications cover women's health in the population context, education and the empowerment of adolescent girls, women's movements and community-based participatory research. Her doctorate is in interdisciplinary communication with an emphasis on development studies.
Lynn Duggan, Professor of Labor Studies since 1997 and PhD economist, teaches at Indiana University Bloomington. She has written articles and book chapters on free trade and social policy, feminist comparative economic systems, family policy in East and West Germany, and reproductive rights in the Philippines. Laurie Nisonoff, Professor of Economics, has taught economics, economic history and women's studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, since 1974. She is an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics, and served as the co-ordinator of the RRPE 6th Special Issue on Women, 'Women in the International Economy'. She has published alone and with Marilyn Dalsimer on women in China, and on the labour process. Nan Wiegersma is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts. She has published numerous articles on land tenure, gender and development. Her article "Peasant Patriarchy and the Subversion of the Collective in Vietnam" was reprinted in the research anthology Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches, Volume I, Lourdes Beneria Ed. She is author of Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution and is coauthor (with Joseph Medley) of US Development Policies toward the Pacific Rim. She was the Women and Development Expert for the United Nations on a World Food Programme mission to Vietnam. She was also a coeditor of the first edition of The Women Gender and Development Reader.Nan was a Fulbright Fellow in Nicaragua, studying women's work in export processing zones. The research from this study was published in Women in the Age of Economic Transformation, Aslanbegui et al. Eds. (1994) and Women in Globalization, Aguilar and Lacsamana Eds. (2004).
Review Quotes:
"The decision to bring out a second edition of this widely used collection of key articles on gender and development will be warmly welcomed by scholars and practitioners in the field. The collection has become a standard text in most courses related to this topic." --Naila Kabeer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS
"This book brings a fresh, more nuanced and complex perspective to old and new questions about development by linking them to history, to social movements, to politics, to financial institutions, both national and international, and above all, to the key actors in development, ordinary women and men on the ground." --Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and Writer, Director of Zubaan Books "The editors are to be congratulated for capturing so deftly the huge strides gender and development studies have taken in these last years. The Women, Gender and Development Reader will be recommended reading for a long time to come." --Wendy Harcourt, author of the prize winning Body Politics in Development "The Women, Gender and Development Reader helps unpack what progress has been made in over fifteen years since the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, and the political, economic, cultural and other impediments to the attainment of real equality between men and women. The editors should be congratulated for giving a panoramic view of the state of gender relations and yet providing concrete and representative examples of challenges and how they can be surmounted by different levels of actors from the local to the intergovernmental systems and financing mechanisms." --Strike Mkandla, UNEP Representative to the African Union (AU), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)