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Title

Developing power : how women transformed international development / edited by Arvonne S. Fraser and Irene Tinker.

Publication

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Fraser, Arvonne S.
• Tinker, Irene.

Description

xxx, 372 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "In every nation around the world, women have long occupied the pivotal place in social and economic life on its most basic and meaningful levels. Yet the international development programs that grew in the mid-twentieth century largely ignored or bypassed women's ideas, women's rights, women's work, and the realities of women's lives. More often than not, these development projects served to reinforce patriarchal structures rather than to support or empower women. In Developing Power, women from around the world tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. Organizing, often against crippling odds, to demand their place at the table, they helped to create one of the most important social movements of the last century--the global women's movement.^
• The stories in Developing Power reach beyond their individual contexts to provide a model for progressive social change. At this crucial historical moment, when women in Afghanistan and Iraq are being excluded from "rebuilding" plans in the wake of U.S. wars abroad, Developing Power offers both instruction and inspiration." -- Publisher's description
• This movement saw a rare collaboration between women from the global North and the global South, as they worked together to alter the established order both inside the UN and in NGOs, national and local governments, universities, think tanks, and on-the-ground development projects. In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell their own stories, revealing the moments when they realized that they could challenge the received wisdom of the day, and the struggles involved in turning their ideas into actions. These varied accounts come from women involved in creating the four major UN conferences on women held from 1975 to 1995, women scholars, women in institutions that provide development funds, and women in development agencies. While a good deal of work remains to be done before women achieve full equity in international development, the changes achieved in the past 30 years are enormous.^

Subject

• United Nations
• Women > Political activity
• Women in development > International cooperation
• Women in development
• Women's rights

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-358) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: ideas into action / Irene Tinker -- Crossroads for women at the UN / Aziza Hussein -- Breaking new ground at the UN and the World Bank / Gloria Scott -- The UN, women, and development : the World Conferences on Women / Leticia Ramos Shahani -- Walking my own road: how a sabbatical year led to a United Nations career / Margaret Snyder -- Walking on eggshells at the UN / Kristen Timothy -- Challenging wisdom, changing policies: the women in development movement / Irene Tinker -- Striding forward: an Italian NGO in the developing nations / Daniela Colombo -- The International Women's Tribune Centre: expanding the struggle for women's rights at the UN / Anne S. Walker -- ISIS International: a Latin American perspective / Ana María Portugal -- Women's world banking / Michaela Walsh -- A view from the South: a story of intersections / Devaki Jain -- A Caribbean journey: defending feminist politics / Peggy Antrobus -- Searching for equality: WID needed at home and abroad / Vivian Lowery Derryck -- Seizing opportunities: USAID, WID, and CEDAW / Arvonne S. Fraser -- Towards empowerment: influencing the Netherlands aid programs / Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt -- Crossing the line: from academia to the WID office at USAID / Jane S. Jaquette -- Full circle: from academia to government and back / Elsa M. Chaney -- A Brazilian feminist and a new constitution / Jacqueline Pitanguy -- Pioneering women's forestry issues at FAO / Marilyn W. Hoskins -- Creating a commonwealth sisterhood / Dorienne Rowan-Campbell -- Women empowering women through NGOs / Elise Fiber Smith -- Gardening for development / Martha Wells Lewis -- The Ford Foundation and the power of international sisterhood / Cornelia Butler Flora -- Hard minds and soft hearts: a university memoir / Kathleen Cloud -- Notes from the middle border: WID on campus / Jane B. Knowles -- Straddling borders: global to local / Kathleen Staudt -- Education, women, and politics in Kenya / Eddah W. Gachukia.

ISBN

• 1558614842 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1558614850 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004019268^^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library