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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development
Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development
Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice
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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.
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Index
Note: Locators followed by n refer notes.
Abdulhamid, Rafatu, 387
Abeysekera, S., 4, 10n3
ablism, 587
abolitionist arguments, 194
absolute sacrifice, 375
Abya Yala, 34, 37–40, 45n1
abysmal failures, 413
ACA, see Affordable Care Act
Acatitla, Santa Martha, 415–16, 431n2
see also imprisoned women
acceptability of the GAD, 135
access to
information, 157, 197
medicines, 159
accountability mechanisms, 151
Accra peace talks, 389
Acharya, Arnab K., 165n19
ACODEMUZO, 254–5
Actor- network theory, 218, 235
Act-Up, 159
Adams, C. J., 376
Adams, Vincanne, 526
Adivasi land politics, 241
Adivasi
ontological understanding, 243
rootedness in land, 242
Advocates for Youth, 204
aesthetic and cultural revolution, 423
Affirmative Action for Girls, 539
Affordable Care Act, 174, 204
Afghan women refugees, 153
African-American women, 30
African slave females, 29
Agarwal, B., 267–8, 270–1
Agathangelou, A. M., 471, 478–9, 482, 486, 488
ageism, 587
agrarian and coastal communities, 278
Agrawal, Arun, 239
agricultural commercialization, 85
agricultural labour, 608
agroforestry, 230n7
Agroforestry Producer’s Association, 217
agroindustrial development plans, 355
agroindustrial land-grabbing, 354
Agustin, L., 191, 193, 288
Ahmadi Khorasani, Noushin, 597, 602n1
Ahmed, S., 97
AIDS policy, 159, 528
see also HIV/AIDS
Alaimo, S., 55
alcoholism, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Dilemmas, Dialogues, Debates
- Section I: Gender, Power, Decoloniality
- Section II: Institutions, Policies, Governmentality
- Section III: Globalization, Care, Economic Justice
- Section IV: Gender, Science, Ecology
- Section V: Livelihoods, Place, Community
- Section VI: Gender, Race, Intersectionality
- Section VII: Violence, Militarism, Conflict
- Section VIII: Bodies, Sexuality, Queering Development
- Section IX: Visions, Hopes, Futures
- Index