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Author Rowley, Michelle V

Title Feminist advocacy and gender equity in the Anglophone Caribbean : envisioning a politics of coalition / Michelle V. Rowley
Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 248 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Routledge international studies of women and place ; 11
Routledge international studies of women and place ; 11.
Contents Mapping the terrains of gender equity: gender mainstreaming, contexts, compromises, and conflicts -- Crafting maternal citizens: historicizing institutional subjectivities within gender mainstreaming -- Co-opting gender and bureaucratizing feminism: exploring equity through the institutionalization of "gender" -- Reproducing citizenship: a 20/20 vision of women's reproductive rights and equity -- Keeping the mainstream in its place: sexual harassment and gender equity in the workplace -- Development and identity politics: securing sexual citizenship
Summary This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing societies? Second, does gender-mainstreaming have the conceptual, operational, and technical capacities to address the centrality of the body in 21st-century lobbies for gender equity? In answering these questions, Rowley examines such issues as reproductive rights and equity, sexual harassment, and sexual minorities' rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminism -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Women's rights -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Women -- Political activity -- Caribbean, English-speaking
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism
Women -- Political activity
Women's rights
English-speaking Caribbean Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136839450
1136839453
9780203832882
0203832884