Women, the State, and DevelopmentSue Ellen M. Charlton, Jana Matson Everett, Kathleen A. Staudt This book reflects the most current scholarship on states, socioeconomic development, and feminist theory to emerge this decade. Addressed are issues such as the role of state policies and ideologies in defining gender differences, state influence over the boundaries between public and domestic spheres, state control over women s productive and reproductive lives, and the efforts of women to influence state policy. Women, the State, and Development shows that state elites promote male domination as one way of maintaining social order when nation-states are created and strengthened, and that issues defined as male by the sexual division of labor are given priority in state policies that promote security and economic development such as foreign policy, international trade, agricultural development, and resource extraction. It analyzes these policies in terms of their impact on gender relations and also identifies ways in which women have responded. |
Contents
WOMEN THE STATE AND DEVELOPMENT | 1 |
FEMALE WELFARE AND POLITICAL EXCLUSION IN WESTERN EUROPEAN STATES | 20 |
WOMEN AND THE STATE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION | 44 |
THE STATE AND GENDER IN COLONIAL AFRICA | 66 |
WOMEN AND THE STATE IN ISLAMIC WEST AFRICA | 86 |
GENDER AND THE STATE PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA | 114 |
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