Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

Jane S. Jaquette is Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the editor of The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy and a coeditor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe.

Collection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty

Preface and Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield 1I. Institutional Opportunities and Barriers 15Women, Gender, and Development / Jane S. Jaquette and Kathleen Staudt 17Mainstreaming Gender in International Organizations / Elisabeth Prugl and Audrey Lustgarten 53From “Home Economics” to “Microfianace:; Gender Rhetoric and the Bureaucratic Resistance / David Hirschmann 71Contributions of a Gender Perspective to the Analysis of Poverty / Sylvia Chant 87What is Justice? Indigenous Women in Andean Development Projects / Maruja Barrig 107II. Livelihood and Control of Resouces 135Gender Equity and Rural Land Reform In China / Gale Summerfield 137Unequal Rights: Women and Property / Diana Lee-Smith and Catalina Hinchey Trujillo 159On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies / Faranak Miraftab 173In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World / Louise Fortmann 191Women’s Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword / Kirk R. Smith 202III. Women’s Mobilization and Power 217Women’s Movements in the Globalizing World: The Case of Thailand / Amara Pongsapich 219T-Shirts to Web Links: Women Connect! Communications Capacity-Building with Women’s NGOs / Doe Mayer, Barbara Pillsbury, and Muadi Mukenge 240Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women’s Organizations / Irene Tinker 268Acronyms 303Bibliography 306Contributors 352Index 357