Chapter
Preface to the second edition
1. An introduction to women, culture and development
Women, culture, development: three visions
Early years: ‘I was a peasant, born of a widow … ’
The war years: ‘I fled from my house and I never returned …’
The peace: ‘It’s been quite a job to readjust our way of thinking …’
The future: ‘As long as the soul is free … one can be happy …’
Consider the problem of privatization
Development, and more development
The feminine, the private
Part One. Sexuality and the gendered body
2. More ‘“Tragedies” in out-of-the-way places: oceanic interpretations of another scale’
Two stories, two generations, multiple meanings
The tragedy of tragedies: where is culture?
The everyday culture of resource politics in Wanigela
Tragedies in out-of-the-way places: matters of scale
3. ‘Revolution with a woman’s face’? Family norms, constitutional reform and the politics of redistribution in post/neoliberal Ecuador
Heteronormativity, development and (post-)neoliberalism
‘The long neoliberal night’: family norms and neoliberal politics in the 1990s
The 2008 Constitution and Correa’s redistributive agenda
Querying ‘El buen vivir’: initial impacts, post-neoliberal futures
4. Claiming the state: revisiting women’s reproductive identity in India’s development policy
The RCH: India’s paradigm shift
From programme evaluation to feminist WCD evaluation
5. Abortion and African culture: a case study of Kenya
The legal context of abortion in Kenya
Anti-abortion actors in Kenya
Anti-abortion discourses in Kenya
Religious and foetal life anti-abortion discourses
Abortion and the corruption of Africa’s societal morals
Implications of anti-abortion religio-cultural discourses
6. Bodies and choices: African matriarchs and Mammy Water
Globalization and matriarchitarianism
Culturing girls: Zambia and Nigeria
Gender, sexuality and power ambiguity
Mammy Water, sex and capitalism
Imagining choice or isolation?
Fragments and the matriarchal umbrella
Empowerment: snakes and ladders
The rhizome of empowerment
Gendered sexualities and lived experience: revisiting the case of gay sexuality in women, culture and development
Revolutionary women’s struggle and leadership: building local political power in rural areas in the age of neoliberal globalization
The liberal push for women’s rights in an age of neoliberal globalization
Women’s struggles in rural areas
Women as revolutionary leaders forging new democracies in rural areas
What should I say about a dream?’: reflections on adolescent girls, agency and citizenship
Agency and citizenship in marginalized communities
Envisioning a way forward
Part Two. Environment, technology, science
7. New lenses with limited vision: Shell scenarios, science fiction, storytelling wars
Flashes from the 2003 chapter
Looking to the futures, arenas of struggle, and views from above
Breaking bad: the narrowing of future narrative pathways
Navigation points: oceans, think tanks and public space
Beyond scenarios: science fiction and story wars
Hunger Games and feminist futures
Other lands and other oceans: the work of Paolo Bacigalupi
Conclusion: The Matrix, The Meatrix and social media possibilities
8. Development nationalism: science, religion and the quest for a modern India
The archaic and the modern
Science, masculinism and the bomb
‘Development nationalism’
Science, technology and development
Vaastushastra: a case study
Constructing the home and the world
9. What would Rachel say?
Raging against the machine
Little tranquilizing pills of half-truth from the gods of profit
Domesticating the poisons
Precaution and humility: science reframed
Lessons for climate change
10. Negotiating human–nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies
Anthropocentric development: defining the term
Ecological rationality and the development project
Technoscience and its challenges
Transforming deep-rooted values
11. The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future – take two
Alternatives to development: of love, dreams and revolution
Of hows and mights: the power and magic of love
Dreams and process in development theory and practice
Case study: La Ciénaga de Manabao
The subjective side of development: sources of well-being, resources for struggle
Part Three. The cultural politics of representation
12. Of rural mothers, urban whores and working daughters: women and the critique of neocolonial development in Taiwan’s nativist literature
Capitalist development and the rise of nationalist discourse
Urban whores, rural mothers and the moral order of nationalist discourse
Women and the ideological representation of neocolonial development
Working daughters and the critique of sexual commodification
13. Revisiting the mostaz’af and the mostakbar
From taghuti and yaghuti to aghazadeha
The crisis of care and the bending of the mostaz’af
Recasting the dispossessed: From Karkheh to Rhein
A Separation and the crisis of care
14. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: ‘women, culture and development’ from a Francophone or postcolonial perspective
Introduction: women, culture and development from here
Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre and WCD
Conclusions: literature and ‘languaging’
15. The precarious middle class: gender, risk and mobility in the new Indian economy
Inhabiting a precarious life
An Antipodean take on gender, culture and development co-operation
From donor–recipient relationships to partnerships
Gender and development policy post-2000
Gender relations and culture
On activist scholarship and women, culture and development
Women, traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable development
Reimagining climate justice: what the world needs now is love, hope ... and you
Ground zero for climate justice
What’s hope got to do with it?
Postscript. A conversation about the future of women, culture and development
Feminist Futures
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