This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who
examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies
international development.
* Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and
development research are so often turned into 'gender
myths' and 'feminist fables': women are more
likely to care for the environment; are better at working together;
are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity to
survive
* 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
