Gender and Development : : Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory / / Catherine V. Scott.
Scott's provocative critique of development theory and practice demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in social constructions of gender differences.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and Change in the Developing World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Rereading Modernization and Dependency Theory
- 2. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory
- 3. From Modernization Theory to the “Soft State” in Africa
- 4. Gender and the World Bank: Modernization Theory in Practice
- 5. Marxism, Masculinity, and Dependency Theory
- 6. Contradictions in the Challenges to Dependency: The Roots of Counterrevolution in Southern Africa
- 7. Rethinking Gender and Development
- References
- Index
- About the Book and the Author