Towards a Pedagogy for the Powerful
Development organisations have learnt to talk the talk on ‘gender’. But in many if not most organisations male privilege and...
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Development organisations have learnt to talk the talk on ‘gender’. But in many if not most organisations male privilege and...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This IDS Bulletin reflects on the contested relationship between feminism and development, and the challenges for reasserting feminist...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the last few years, there has been growing talk among development actors and agencies about a “rights-based approach” to...
I work a lot on issues of sexuality and sexual rights. And every time I mention that in the context of India, I am told that the...
Participatory research has long held within it implicit notions of the relationships between power and knowledge. Advocates of...
Mention of the word ‘gender’ has come to evoke a palpable sense of ennui amongst many development practitioners (Molyneux 2004). Its...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Abortion has become an ever more controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both ‘for’ and ‘against’. The very language...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Neoliberalism – that ‘grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist notion that markets are selfcorrecting, allocate resources...
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This introductory article draws out some of the dimensions and dilemmas around women's empowerment that are highlighted in the articles...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) is 20 years old. This introduction revisits the promises of the Beijing...