Product Description: "Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions of readers...read more

Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development. Development is not just the conclusion of economic logic; its histories reveal a legacy of contested power, illuminating the contemporary battlefields of knowledge. These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional contexts. The contested ideas behind world development are explained, with illustrative material, sensitive to place and time, chiefly drawn from Asia, Africa and Latin America. This book examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder.

Product Description: Women all over the world are increasingly joining the bottom rungs of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in China's export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women's labor and skill is a crucial element of the scaling-up of globalized production processes...read more

Product Description: Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars and working days have been expended on the "development" of countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. The alleviation of poverty is the primary concern of many -- though not all -- organizations working in the development sector...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: * Covers NGO, government agency, and international agency policies* Addresses key policy areas, such as education and work, through gender analysisPolicy, Politics & Gender identifies and develops the connections between women’s politics and public policies and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Currently the world is in economic and political crisis, of which escalating conflict is a symptom. In this book, writers from South and North stress that such crises can be resolved only if we recognise that we are all involved in a global system which perpetuates poverty and inequality, not only in the South and East but also in the North...read more

Product Description: Book by