1st Edition

Global Perspectives on Gender and Space Engaging Feminism and Development

Edited By Ann Oberhauser, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo Copyright 2014
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process. Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development draws upon this framework to explore the effects of... Read more

1. Engaging Feminism and Development: Worlds of Inequality and Change  Part I. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization 2. Gender Equity and Commercialization of Public Toilet Services  3. Out of the Kitchen’: Gender, Empowerment and Microfinance Programs in Sri Lanka  4. Neoliberalization, Gender and the Rise of the Diaspora Option in Jamaica  5. Stuck in a Groove’? Gender, Politics and Globalization in Anti-Sex Trafficking Policy Initiatives Part II. Gendering the Field: Participatory Feminist Research 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminist Methodologies in the Global North and South 7. Examining Land Use and Gender Relations in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa through Qualitative Methods  8. Participatory Mapping of Women’s Daily Lives: Perspectives from Rural Uganda  9. Mapping Differential Geographies: Women’s Contributions to the Liberation Struggle in Tanzania  Part III. Gender, the Environment and Community-based Development 10. Gender, Livelihoods and the Construction of Climate Change among Masai Pastoralists  11. Gender Mapping in Post-Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Sri Lanka’s Tsunami  12. Ecodevelopment, Gender and Empowerment: Perspectives from India’s Protected Area Communities

Biography

Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Geography at West Virginia University, USA.





Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo is Professor of Geography at State University of New York College at Cortland, USA.