Struggling With Development: The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The PhilippinesStruggling 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
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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 |
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