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Gender and Development : Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory / Catherine V. Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and Change in the Developing WorldPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (151 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685853877
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Rereading Modernization and Dependency Theory -- 2. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory -- 3. From Modernization Theory to the “Soft State” in Africa -- 4. Gender and the World Bank: Modernization Theory in Practice -- 5. Marxism, Masculinity, and Dependency Theory -- 6. Contradictions in the Challenges to Dependency: The Roots of Counterrevolution in Southern Africa -- 7. Rethinking Gender and Development -- References -- Index -- About the Book and the Author
Summary: Scott's provocative critique of development theory and practice demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in social constructions of gender differences.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Rereading Modernization and Dependency Theory -- 2. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory -- 3. From Modernization Theory to the “Soft State” in Africa -- 4. Gender and the World Bank: Modernization Theory in Practice -- 5. Marxism, Masculinity, and Dependency Theory -- 6. Contradictions in the Challenges to Dependency: The Roots of Counterrevolution in Southern Africa -- 7. Rethinking Gender and Development -- References -- Index -- About the Book and the Author

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Scott's provocative critique of development theory and practice demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in social constructions of gender differences.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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