Feminist futures: reimagining women, culture and development
1. An introduction to women, culture and development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian -- Visions I : Maria's stories / Maria Ofelia Navarrete -- The woof and the warp / Luisa Valenzuela -- Consider the problem of privatization / Anna Tsing -- Pt. I. Sexuality and the gendered body : -- 2. More "tragedies" in out-of-the-way places: oceanic interpretations of another scale / Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem -- 3. 'Revolution with a woman's face?: Family norms, constitutional reform and the politics of redistribution in post/neoliberal Ecuador / Amy Lind -- Claiming the state: revisiting women's reproductive identity in India's development policy / Rachel Simon-Kumar -- Abortion and African culture: a case study of Kenya / Jane Wambui Njagi -- 6. Bodies and choices: African matriarchs and Mammy Water / Ifi Amadiume -- Visions II: --Empowerment: snakes and ladders / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Gendered sexualities and lived experience: revisiting the case of gay sexuality in women, culture and development / Dana Collins -- Revolutionary women's struggle and leadership: building local political power in rural areas in the age of neoliberal globalization / Peter Chua -- 'What should I say about a dream?': reflections on adolescent girls, agency and citizenship / Gauri Nandedkar -- Pt. II. Environment, technology, science : -- 7. New Lenses with limited vision: shell scenarios, science fiction, storytelling wars / David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian -- 8. Development nationalism: science, religion, and the quest for a modern India / Banu Subramaniam -- 9. What would Rachel say? / Joni Seager -- 10. Negotiating human-nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies / Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi -- 11. The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future, take two / Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt -- Visions III: -- Alternatives to development: of love, dreams, and revolution / John Foran -- Dreams and process in development theory and practice / Light Carruyo -- The subjective side of development: sources of well-being, resources for struggle / Linda Klouzal -- Pt. III. 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 / Ming-yan Lai -- 13. Revisiting the mostaz'af and the mostakbar / Minoo Moallem -- 14. Mariama Bâ's So long a letter: 'women, culture and development' from a Francophone or postcolonial perspective / Anjali Prabhu -- 15. The precarious middle class: gender, risk and mobility in the new Indian economy / Raka Ray -- Visions IV: -- An antipodean take on gender, culture and development co-operation / Susanne Schech -- On activist scholarship and women, culture and development / Julie Shayne -- Women, traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable development / Sangion Appiee Tiu -- Reimagining climate justice: what the world needs now is love, hope ... and you / John Foran -- Postscript : A conversation about the future of women, culture and development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, Debashish Munshi.