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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kate BedfordPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9780816665402ISBN 10: 0816665400 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 17 August 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction 1. Working Women, Caring Men, and the Family Bank: Ideal Gender Relations after the Washington Consensus 2. The Model Region Remodels Partnerships: The Politics of Gender Research in Latin America and the Caribbean 3. Forging Partnerships, Sidelining Child Care: How Ecuadorian Femocrats Navigate Institutional Constraints in World Bank Gender Policy 4. Roses Mean Love: Export Promotion and the Restructuring of Intimacy in Ecuador 5. Cultures of Saving and Loving: Ethnodevelopment, Gender, and Heteronormativity in PRODEPINE 6. Holding It Together: Family Strengthening in Argentina Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBedford's pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of 'inclusive neoliberalism' (xiii). --Signs Developing Partnerships is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford's book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank. --Perspectives on Politics ""Bedford’s pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of ‘inclusive neoliberalism’ (xiii).""—Signs ""Developing Partnerships is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford’s book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank.""—Perspectives on Politics """Bedford’s pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of ‘inclusive neoliberalism’ (xiii).""—Signs ""Developing Partnerships is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford’s book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank.""—Perspectives on Politics" Bedford's pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of `inclusive neoliberalism' (xiii). -Signs Developing Partnerships is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford's book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank. -Perspectives on Politics Bedford's pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of 'inclusive neoliberalism' (xiii). -Signs Developing Partnerships is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford's book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank. -Perspectives on Politics Author InformationKate Bedford is a research fellow at the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender, and Sexuality at Kent Law School, the University of Kent. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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