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Product Description: The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends...read more
By Ann Coles (editor), Leslie Gray (editor) and Janet Henshall Momsen (editor)

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9780415829083, titled "The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development" | Routledge, February 19, 2015, cover price $273.00 | About this edition: The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context.

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Product Description: The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy...read more
By Jenny Edwards (editor)

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9781780325842 | Zed Books, April 1, 2014, cover price $143.95 | About this edition: The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy.

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9781780325835 | Zed Books, April 1, 2014, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy.

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Product Description: * The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ seeking a succession of small wins that cumulatively over time they hope may reduce inequity and promote social justice...read more
By Laura Turquet (editor)

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9781853398049 | Practical Action Pub, March 30, 2014, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: * The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ seeking a succession of small wins that cumulatively over time they hope may reduce inequity and promote social justice.

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9781853398056 | Practical Action Pub, December 31, 2013, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: * The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ seeking a succession of small wins that cumulatively over time they hope may reduce inequity and promote social justice.

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9781442225763 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 14, 2013, cover price $94.00

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9781442225770 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 14, 2013, cover price $33.00

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Product Description: A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations...read more

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9780415890373 | Routledge, August 8, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations.

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Product Description: This report surveys research and policy in the field of gender and economic development, with particular emphasis on economic literature and practice. The begins with a history of gender and economic development thought, and includes a statistical overview of women and men in developing economies, covering data on employment, Millennium Development Goals, and composite indices of gender equality...read more
By United Nations (corporate author)

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9789211323351 | United Nations Pubns, February 15, 2012, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This report surveys research and policy in the field of gender and economic development, with particular emphasis on economic literature and practice.

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Product Description: This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color.

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9780230120457 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.

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Product Description: Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different parts of the world, reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promote equality and sustainability...read more
By Devaki Jain (editor)

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9788132107415 | Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, November 3, 2011, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different parts of the world, reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promote equality and sustainability.

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Product Description: Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations...read more

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9780230577817 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2009, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations.

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Product Description: Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of discourses of neoliberal governance. Paying particular attention to how gender matters in and to contemporary global governance, the author focuses in particular on the development discourse of the World Bank...read more

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9780230218277 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2009, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of discourses of neoliberal governance.

By Shamim Meer (editor)

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9789068327427 | Koninklijk Instituut Voor De tropen, May 30, 2009, cover price $38.95

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Product Description: This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of high growth rates, increasing GDP per capita and high trade volume, the book looks at what is happening to the very socioeconomic and political fabric of society; particularly in terms of the transformation of gender relations...read more

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9780415467223 | 1 edition (Routledge, September 27, 2008), cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process.

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9780415467230 | 1 edition (Routledge, September 27, 2008), cover price $51.95 | About this edition: This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process.

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9780203893005 | Routledge, July 29, 2008, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781842778371 | Zed Books, March 18, 2008, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states.

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9781842778388 | Zed Books, March 18, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states.

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Product Description: Religion is defined by the author in terms of religious and cultural concepts. She explains the impact of religion and culture on gender and development in a patriarchal society. The assumptions, theories and philosophies related to gender and their impact on women in the development process are discussed...read more

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9789970026180 | Fountain Pub Ltd, December 29, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Religion is defined by the author in terms of religious and cultural concepts.

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Product Description: The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based on their studies in twenty countries in all regions of the world...read more
By Carolyn M. Elliott (editor)

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9780415955454 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 13, 2007), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development.

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Product Description: The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised. Developed out of a series of regional workshops, this Action Guide explores the different impacts of trade on women and men; provides practical tools on how to take advantage of the opportunities trade can offer to further development, alleviate poverty and promote gender equality; and suggests ways to get gender onto the international trade agenda...read more

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9780850928624 | 1 pap/cdr edition (Commonwealth Secretarial, October 1, 2007), cover price $113.95 | About this edition: The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised.

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Product Description: The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and will they empower women through education? This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity to engage critically with existing and emergent conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to this global debate...read more
By Madeleine Arnot (editor) and Shailaja Fennell (editor)

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9780415419444 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 30, 2007), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015.

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9780415552059 | 1 edition (Routledge, July 1, 2009), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015.

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9780203939598, titled "Gender Education & Equality in a Global Context: Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives" | Routledge, September 11, 2007, cover price $42.50

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By John Foran (editor)

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9780415956215 | 1 edition (Routledge, February 11, 2009), cover price $130.00

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Product Description: This work is divided into three sections: 'Indigenous-Industrial Sustainabilities', 'NGO-ization of Sustainabilities' and 'Linking Hands to Sustain'.
By Sonita Sarker (editor)

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9780762314393 | Jai, August 13, 2007, cover price $125.99 | About this edition: This work is divided into three sections: 'Indigenous-Industrial Sustainabilities', 'NGO-ization of Sustainabilities' and 'Linking Hands to Sustain'.

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By Andrea Cornwall (editor), Elizabeth Harrison (editor) and Ann Whitehead (editor)

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9781842778180 | Zed Books, March 6, 2007, cover price $123.95

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9781842778197 | Zed Books, March 6, 2007, cover price $39.95

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