With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Wendy Harcourt
EAN: 9781137382726
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 11524 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-01-06
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GENRE: LAW / International, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
WIDTH: 155 cm
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Book Themes:
Development studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Human rights, civil rights
Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, The Netherlands. She joined the ISS in 2011 after 20 years working at the Society for International Development as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books including her monograph Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development, winner of the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. Harcourt is also editor of the Palgrave Series Gender, Development and Social Change.
