Development with Women

Contents: Preface/Deborah Eade. 1. Development with women/Dorienne Rowan-Campbell. 2. Targeting women or transforming institutions? Policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts/Naila Kabeer. 3. Women in the informal sector: the contribution of education and training/Fiona Leach. 4. The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot/Sarah Hlupelike Longwe. 5. Participatory development: an approach sensitive to class and gender/Dan 'Connell. 6. Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar/Puja Roy. 7. Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?/Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed M. Hashemi, and Shamsul Huda Badal. 8. Domestic violence, deportation, and women's resistance/Purna Sen. 9. Women entrepreneurs in the Bangladeshi restaurant business/Mahmuda Rahman Khan. 10. Empowerment examined/Jo Rowlands. 11. The Zimbabwe women's resource centre and network/Hope Chigudu. 12. Dealing with hidden issues: trafficked women in Nepal/Meena Poudel and Anita Shrestha. 13. Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?/Ranjani K. Murthy. 14. Soup kitchens, women and social policy: case studies/Luiba Kogan. Annotated bibliography. Organisations concerned with women in development. Addresses of publishers.

"Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women 'matter' in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier 'gender-blind- efforts which simply ignored women's specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on issues such as 'mainstreaming' versus specialisation, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended impacts of women-focused credit programmes, and how institutional policies to promote gender equity are often tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests. Papers are drawn from South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa." (jacket)