Harvesting feminist knowledge for public policy : rebuilding progress
Date
2011
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA
Abstract
This volume consists of 14 essays written in the context of the “triple crises” of food, fuel, and finance; the deep-seated problems of growing inequality; unpaid care work; and environmentally unsustainable patterns of economic growth. The authors argue that the very approach being taken to understand and measure progress, and to plan for and evaluate development, needs rethinking in ways that draw on the knowledge of women. It is the forms of production, paradigms, and institutions themselves that need transforming, both through changes in ideas that generate economic policies, and through social mobilization.
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Co-published with SAGE Publications India
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IDRC Book
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FEMINISM, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, GOVERNMENT POLICY, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER ROLES, GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC ASPECTS, LABOUR MARKET, SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, PUBLIC POLICY, WOMEN'S WORK, UNPAID WORK, NEOLIBERALISM, CARE WORK, WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, CUBA, PHILIPPINES, CHINA, JAPAN, GLOBAL SOUTH