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Rethinking Gender in Development Practice is about the ways in which issues of gender-including violence against women and girls, entrenched gender roles and expectations, the exclusion of non-binary genders, and the participation of disempowered genders-affect and are affected by development practice.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Is development work still so straight? Heteronormativity in the development sector over a decade on 2. Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse 3. Taking the power out of empowerment – an experiential account 4. Seeing empowerment as relational: lessons from women participating in development projects in Cambodia 5. Targeting women or transforming institutions? 6. Defining women’s empowerment in women and girl safe spaces: a call for collective self-determination 7. From complexity to simplicity – how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices 8. Research uptake, lessons from a multi-country global program: What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls 9. A study on capacity development in the ‘What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women’ program 10. The gendered impact of COVID-19 on FGM 11. Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda 12. Exploring the use of film to stimulate dialogue on the issues of gender inequality in Samoa
About the author
Emily Finlay is Managing Editor of the journal Development in Practice; an Affiliate of Monash University’s School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Australia; and Chair of the Institute of Professional Editors’ Standing Committee on Academic Editing.
Patrick Kilby is Editor in Chief of the journal Development in Practice and has honorary Associate Professor positions at both the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has over forty years’ experience working in development both as a practitioner and an academic.
Rochelle Spencer is Deputy Editor of the journal Development in Practice and co-Director of the Research for Development Impact Network, Australia. Her research interests include the rural livelihoods in Africa, gender and development, feminist and participatory processes, Indigenous social enterprise, and development tourism.
Joyce Wu (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a Deputy Editor of Development in Practice.
Summary
Rethinking Gender in Development Practice is about the ways in which issues of gender—including violence against women and girls, entrenched gender roles and expectations, the exclusion of non-binary genders, and the participation of disempowered genders—affect and are affected by development practice.
