DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ester Boserup, Devs, Marxist Feminism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: Scott Rutherford

Document Summary

Chapter 5: gender and development: the struggles of women in the global south. Six main theorietical approaches have influenced successive interventions: welfare approach, women in development wid, women and development wad, gender and development gad, the effectiveness approach ea, mainstreaming gender equality mge. An obstacle course: 70% of the 1. 2 billion people under the poverty line are women. There is a wide range of status has resulted from a long struggle of feminist movements and women"s: the recognition of the connection between gender equality and development of women within the same countries around the world. groups. The emergence of the field (cid:498)women, gender, and development(cid:499: this field is made up of academics, feminist activists, and development practitioners, gender distinguishes between biological sex and the associated socially constructed notion of sex (masculinity vs. femininity). Social assistance: welfare approach dominated the 1950s to the 1970s, was rooted in decolonization and political independence of numerous african and asian countries.