GS211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Development Theory, Gender Mainstreaming, Terry Scott
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Roles: socially assigned roles, not globally fixed. Friedan: meaning in women"s lives relies on family, hence loose their identity. Intersectionality: race class shape different types of feminism. Mainstreaming development: integration of women in the workforce. Male dominated public sphere with feminized traditional women tasks in the private sphere. Development seen as the emergence of the rational industrial man. Men leave home to join other rational men. Did not challenge spread of capitalism and intensification of exploitation. Need to reformulate development theory: put issues in the radar. Wid: liberal: gender blind: add and stir. Wad: socialist: what impoverished women was development. Integrate women into economic development by focusing on income generation projects for women. Critique to modernization policies: women marginalized in agricultural world and new technologies under male control. Women"s link to modernization as cause of impoverishment. Difference with wid: labour not as unequal participation but as subordination. Difference with wad: development not as impoverishment but as gender structure.
