Struggling With Development: The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

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Routledge, May 20, 2019 - Political Science - 368 pages
Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Developing Hunger in the Philippines
33
3 Gendered Experiences in Ifugao
61
4 Violence and Uncertainty
103
5 Spirituality and Hunger
145
6 Interpreting Hunger Biomedically
181
7 Maintaining Inequality
231
Unlikely Alliances
263
9 Conclusion
291
Glossary
305
List of Acronyms
309
Bibliography
311
Index
341
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Lynn M. Kwiatkowski is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.

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