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Author:
Wilkins, Karin Gwinn, 1962- author.
Title:
Communicating gender and advocating accountability in global development / Karin Gwinn Wilkins.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
viii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Women in development.
Microfinance.
Women-owned business enterprises.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Communication, Gender, Development -- 2. Communicating Gender in Micro-enterprise Development -- 3. Communicating Gender in Population Development -- 4. Communicating Gender in Education Development -- 5. Advocacy & Accountability for Gender Justice.
Summary:
"Women are more central than ever before in visions of global development. So then why has the development industry failed to resolve gender gaps on a global scale? In this book, limitations of development are explored through research on micro-enterprise programs in South Asia, celebrity funding of girls' schools in Africa and Afghanistan, and population programs and conferences in Egypt. Concerns are raised with the overly narrow articulation of women's empowerment at the expense of gender dynamics, privileging of communication as a technological tool rather than as discourse or global industry, and assertion of neoliberal development without attention to political-economic global contexts. Critical inquiry can contribute to advocacy by subverting accountability to meet the demands of global social justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Palgrave studies in communication for social change
ISBN:
1137450479 (hardback)
9781137450470 (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)910294254
LCCN:
2015023409
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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