SOAN 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Anthropology, Gender Mainstreaming, Development Anthropology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3680
• Professor: Sally Humphries

Document Summary

Feminism and the anthropology of development: dilemmas in rural mexico by julie. Feminist promotion of gender equity in dev started in 1970s; challenging dev policy and practice. Fem anthros helped reform gender equity into development. Anthropology of development", an anthro critique of dev raised questions about anthro"s relationship to dev (making problems for fem anthros who work w dev) This approach does not have gender questions at its centre. This papers looks at challenges of a feminist anthropology of development" pressures for engagement and disengagement and contradiction between reflexive critiques of & fem engagements w, development. Momentum of advancing fem initiatives (for gender equity as end goal) has lessened. Doing fem anthro research in third world countries characterized by hierarchies of gender, class, race and ethnicity. Dev began after ww2; marshall plan to rebuild europe & post-war planning of colonial empires were incentive for creation of "global development" (that drew on econ theory)