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Feminist futures

re-imagining women, culture and development

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Review "[The authors] focus on the need for a new paradigm in development studies in which women and the significance of culture are central... they raise key questions for ...rethinking development for the 21st century." -- Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University "These engaging, often surprising chapters challenge us to think new thoughts about the dynamic interactions between culture and gender." -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases "A powerful critique combined with a framework for a new paradigm linking women, culture, and development that draws from richly textured analysis of environment, sexuality, science and technology, and cultures of representation. This is an exciting new book." -- Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India "This is a truly exciting collection which successfully integrates some critical concerns of feminist studies and cultural studies to present a fresh perspective on Third World development." -- Bina Agarwal, University of Delhi -- Review Product Description The contributors to this volume work at the intersection of cultural studies, feminist studies, and critical development studies to articulate a new framework that they call Women, Culture and Development. The editors trace its genealogies and potential in their introduction, and the several parts of the book ground it by applying it to a range of issues including sexuality and the gendered body; environment, technology and science; and the cultural politics of representation.The result is a fresh vantage point on pressing issues of global development and a new paradigm for scholars and activists to consider. This interdisciplinary book, spanning diversely situated regions of the world, connects scholarship and social change and juxtaposes the past, present and the future to suggest a new lens through which to look at the situation of women in the global south.This volume will be of interest to scholars in development, international, global and comparative studies; women's studies; cultural studies; and the humanities and social sciences associated with all of these. About the Author Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His previous publications include Ethnicities and Global Multiculture (2007) and Globalization and Empire (2004). He has previously edited two Zed books Global Futures and The Decolonization of Imagination.Arturo Escobar is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of globalization, social movements, and technoscience. He is the author of Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), and is engaged in transition design projects in Colombia.Wendy Harcourt is a feminist researcher and activist working at the Society for International Development in Rome Italy as senior advisor and chief editor of the quarterly journal Development. Since 1988 she has built up the journal to be one of the most honest and critical quarterly publications on development. Born in Australia she now lives in Italy and is actively engaged in global feminist politics through her work with Women in Development Europe, European Feminist Forum and the Feminist Dialogues. Her work and commitment to global gender justice has taken her around the world teaming up with UN policy makers, research institutes, women's groups and social justice movement