1st Edition
Struggling With Development The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines
By Lynn Kwiatkowski
Copyright 1998
364 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising of women's social position, has instead... Read more
List of Tables and Photographs, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Developing Hunger in the Philippines, Gendered Experiences in Ifugao, Violence and Uncertainty, Spirituality and Hunger, Interpreting Hunger Biomedically, Maintaining Inequality, Power and Contradiction: Unlikely Alliances, Conclusion, Glossary, List of Acronyms, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Lynn M. Kwiatkowski is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.
