(En)Gendering International Development

(En)Gendering International Development

You are expected to use the core texts which are seminal for understanding the debates on gender and development and which will also be used throughout the course. It is mandatory to do three readings per week from the selection of readings provided for each week. This will also enable you to follow the lectures and participate in the seminars.

• Chua, Peter; Bhavnani, Kum-Kum; Foran, John, Women, culture, development: a new paradigm for development studies?, Ingår i: Ethnic and racial studies., vol. 23, nr. 5, 2000, s. 820–841 (Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 23, No.5.)
• Gender and catastrophe, London, Zed, 1997 (pp 50–64)
• Kabeer, Naila, Reversed realities: gender hierarchies in development thought, London, Verso, 1994Obligatorisk* (* Can be bought.)
• Kaldor, Mary, New and old wars: organized violence in a global era., Cambridge, Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1999 (pp72–87)
• Lugalla, Joe L.P., The impact of structural adjustment policies on women's and children's health in Tanzania, Ingår i: Review of African political economy., 22, 1995, 63, s. 43-53 (From Journal: Review of African Political Economy, Vol 22, No 63, March 1995)
• Marchand, Marianne H.; Parpart, Jane L., Feminism, postmodernism, development, London, Routledge, 1995Obligatorisk* (* Can be bought.)
• Thapar-Bjorkert, Suruchi; Morgan, Karen; Yuval-Davis, Nira, Framing gendered identities: local conflicts/global violence, Ingår i: Women's studies international forum: a multidisciplinary journal ..., vol. 29, nr. 5, 2006, s. 433–538 (From journal: Women's Studies International Forum, Vol 29, No 5 Special Issue, 2006, pp 433–440 and 474–488)
• Kabbani, Rana, Imperial Fictions: Europe Myth's of the Orient, Indiana University Press: Bloomington (pp. 1-13 & 67-85), 2009 (To be downloaded)
• Sayyid, S, Mirror Mirror: Western Democrats, Oriental Despots?,, Ethnicities, 5; (30-50), 2005
• Prakash, Gyan, Orientalism now, History & Theory vol. 34, no. 3 (199-212), 1995
• Liddle, Joanna; Rai, Shirin M., Feminism, imperialism and orientalism: the challenge of the "Indian woman", Ingår i: Women's history review. (Women's History Review, Vol.7. No.4, (pp.495–519) Download from: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a739099977~frm=titlelink)
• Mohanty, Chandra, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Feminist Review, 30, (pp.61-88), 1988
• Chaudhuri, Nupur, Memshahibs and their servants in nineteenth century India, Women's History Review, 3:4, (pp. 549-562), 1994
• McClintock, Anne, Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest, London, Routledge, 1995 (pp. 1–15)
• Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi; Ryan, Louise, Mother India and Mother Ireland: Comparative Gendered Dialogues of Colonialism and nationalism in the early 20 century, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 25, Issue 3, May-June, (pp. 301-313), 2002
• Gender and imperialism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998 (pp. 1–15)
• Chadya, Joyce M, Mother Politics: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Woman Question in Africa, Journal of Women's History - Volume 15, Number 3,(pp. 153-157), 2003
• Johnson, Cheryl, Grass Roots Organizing: Women in Anticolonial Activity in Southwestern Nigeria, African Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 2/3, pp. 137-157, 1982
• Djamila Amrane-Minne, Daniele; Abu-Haidar, Farida, Women and Politics in Algeria from the War of Independence to Our Day, Research in African Literatures, Vol.30, No.3 (62-77), 1999
• Parpart, Jane L, Who is the 'Other'?: A Postmodern Feminist Critique of Women and Development Theory and Practice, Development and Change, Volume 24 Issue 3, Pages 439 - 464, 1993
• Razavi, Shahra, Fitting Gender into Development Institutions, World Development, Vol.25, No.7, (1111-1125), 1997
• Nederveen Pieterse, Jan, After Post Development, Third World Quarterly, Vol.21, No.2 (175-191), 2000
• Feminist visions of development: gender, analysis and policy, New York, Routledge, 1998 (pp. 1–15)
• Kanji, Nazneen; Jazdowska, Structural Adjustment and women in Zimbabwe, Review of African Political Economy, No.56, (pp.11-26), 1993
• Patel, Vibhuti, Women and Structural Adjustment in India, Social Scientist, Vol.22, No.3/4, (pp.16-34)., 1994
• Kaimowitz, David; Thiele, Graham, The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Lowland Bolivia, World Development Vol. 27, No. 3. (505-520), 1999
• George, Susan, Down the Great Financial Drain: How Debt and the Washingtom Consensus destroy development and create poverty, Development, 50 (2), (4-11), 2007
• Amalric, Franck; Banuri, Tariq, Population: Malady or Symptom?, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4 (pp.691-706), 1994
• Sudha, S; Irudaya Rajan, S, Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: Sex Selective Abortions and Female Infanticide, Development and Change Vol. 30 (pp.585-618), 1999
• Sen, Armartya, More than 100 million women are missing, Ingår i: The New York review of books. (pp. 61–66)
• Bhat, R L; Sharma, Namita, ) Mising Girls: Evidence from some North Indian States, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 13/3 (pp.351-373), 2006
• Kalyvas, Stathis N, NEW' AND 'OLD' Civil Wars- A Valid Distinction?, World Politics 54 (pp.99-118), 2001
• Dowden, Richard, The Rwandan Genocide: How the Press Missed the Story, African Affairs , 103, (pp.283-290), 2004
• Keen, David, A Rational Kind of Madness, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, (pp.67-75), 1997
• Alison, Miranda, Women as Agents of Political Violence: Gendering Security, Security Dialogue vol. 35, no. 4, December 2004 (pp.447-464), 2004

* Obligatorisk