Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / editörler, Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead. - 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages). - Development and change book series . - Development and change (Unnumbered) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender myths and feminist fables : the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development / Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead -- A bigger piece of a very small pie : intrahousehold resource allocation and poverty reduction in Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- The construction of the myth of survival / Mercedes González de la Rocha -- Earth mother myths and other ecofeminist fables : how a strategic notion rose and fell / Melissa Leach -- Political cleaners : women as the new anti-corruption force? / Anne Marie Goetz -- Resolving risk? marriage and creative conjugality / Cecile Jackson -- Feminism, gender, and women's peace activism / Judy El-Bushra -- Myths to live by? female solidarity and female autonomy reconsidered / Andrea Cornwall.

9781444306675 1444306677 1405169370 9781405169370

10.1002/9781444306675 doi

10.1002/9781444306675 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com




Feminism--Political aspects.
Feminist theory.
Sex role--Sociological aspects.
Women in development.
Feminist theory.
Women in development.


Electronic books.

HQ1240 / .G46 2008EBK