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Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global: Volume I book cover

1st Edition

Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global Volume I

Edited By Christine Koggel, Cynthia Bisman Copyright 2015
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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It is now generally accepted by development theorists and policy-makers that the popular policies of reducing or eliminating social welfare programs over the past several decades have increased inequalities and injustices throughout the world. The authors in this collection focus on the gendered aspects of these inequalities and injustices. They do so by exploring the ethics, values, and... Read more

Preface: Gender Justice and Development

Christine M. Koggel, Cynthia Bisman, and Eric Palmer

1. Introduction: Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global

Cynthia Bisman and Christine M. Koggel

2. Empowerment, Citizenship and Gender Justice: A Contribution to Locally Grounded Theories of Change in Women’s Lives

Naila Kabeer

3. Unlocking Pathways to Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality: The Good, The Bad, and the Sticky

Patti Petesch

4. Empowering Children, Disempowering Women

Jan Newberry

5. Implications of Customary Practices on Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership in Cameroon

Lotsmart Fonjong, Irene Fokum Sama-Lang and Lawrence Fon Fombe

6. Gender Justice and Rights in Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Petra Tschakert and Mario Machado

7. Integrating Peace, Justice and Development in a Relational Approach to Peacebuilding

Jennifer J. Llewellyn

8. Partiality Based on Relational Responsibilities: Another Approach to Global Ethics

Joan C. Tronto

　

Biography

Christine M. Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality; editor of Moral Issues in Global Perspective; and co-editor of Contemporary Moral Issues and Care Ethics: New Theories and Applications.

Cynthia Bisman is Professor of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. She has focused her scholarship on the moral core of social work. Her latest book is Social Work: Value Guided Practice for a Global Society (2014).

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