DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, United Nations General Assembly, Sex Worker
7 Jan 2016
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Estimated that 1. 2 billion people live in poverty. Welfare approach: this approach targets women in their domestic role they are viewed as passive addresses women"s practical needs : food/aid/health & nutrition, examples: Emphasizes the role of productive and reproductive relations. Examples: transnational feminist networks, women in development (wid, women and development (wad, gender and development (gad) Political structure that controls and subjugates women by: limiting and denying their rights as citizens, limiting their choices to their role as mothers. Ester boserup"s women"s role in economic development: critique of the specialized division of labour associated with international development and its negative impact on women"s status. Boserup"s book prepared way for wid approaches. Mexico, 1975 the un general assembly organized the first global. Wid theory and practice failed to question the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy international structures of class inequality reproduced locally critique for ignoring other forms of oppression. Gender and development: influenced by women"s groups from the global south.
