Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and DevelopmentISBN: 978-1-4051-6937-0
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184 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into ‘gender myths’ and ‘feminist fables’
- Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and practice
- Traces the ways in which language and images of development are related to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politics of knowledge production
- Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not only important for our own sake, but also for the implications they have for women’s lives worldwide
- An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has been transformed in its transfer into development policy and how many authors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlier work
