The Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair

by Shirin M. Rai

Book Overview

In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states.

In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratization and globalization and governance, Rai argues that the gendered way in which nationalist statebuilding occured created deep fissures and pressures for development. She goes on to show how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842778382
• ISBN13: 9781842778388
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"