Feminist futures: re-imagining women, culture and development

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Acknowledgements and Dedications About the contributors Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya Kurian Visions I Maria's Stories Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatisation Anna Tsing Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body 2. 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem 3. 'Revolution with a Woman's Face'? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador Amy Lind 4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women's Reproductive Identity in India's Development Policy Rachel Simon-Kumar 5. Abortion and African Culture: : A Case Study of Kenya Jane Wambui Njagi 6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume Visions II Empowerment - Snakes and Ladders Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development Dana Collins Cases of Revolutionary Women's Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in the Countryside in the Age of Neoliberal Globalisation Peter Chua What Should I Say About a Dream? Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency, and Citizenship Gauri Nandedkar Part II: Environment, Technology, Science 7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian 8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India Banu Subramaniam 9. What Would Rachel Say? Joni Seager 10. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Visions III Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution John Foran Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice Light Carruyo The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle Linda Klouzal Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation 11. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature Ming-yan Lai 12. Revisiting the Mostaz'af and the Mostakbar Minoo Moallem 13. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: 'Women, Culture and Development' from a Francophone/Postcolonial Perspective Anjali Prabhu 14. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy Raka Ray Visions IV An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Cooperation Susanne Schech On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development Julie Shayne Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development Sangion Tiu Re-Imagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope and You John Foran Post-scripts: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Bibliography

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