This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables'. In doing so, it explores how bowdlerised and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultenously come to be…
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.: Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'f…
"The Left has accused supporters of limited government of waging a "War on Women." In 'Liberty is no war on women', Lukas and Schaeffer take this charge apart. They demonstrate that liberals' recipe for ever-bigger government backfires on women by eroding opportunity and true fi…
Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links …
This book examines the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship.