Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development

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In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. At this crucial historical moment, when women in Afghanistan and Iraq are being excluded from “rebuilding” plans in the wake of U.S. wars abroad, Developing Power offers both instruction and inspiration.

Arvonne S. Fraser has been coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of ...

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Overview

In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. At this crucial historical moment, when women in Afghanistan and Iraq are being excluded from “rebuilding” plans in the wake of U.S. wars abroad, Developing Power offers both instruction and inspiration.

Arvonne S. Fraser has been coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Irene Tinker was a founder of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women, the International Center for Research on Women, and the Equity Policy Center.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781558614857
  • Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, The
  • Publication date: 11/1/2008
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 372
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

ARVONNE S. FRASER has been Coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and a member of the U.S. delegations to the first two UN World Conferences on Women 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights. She is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, where she organized and directed the International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) and co-founded the Institute's Center on Women and Public Policy. IRENE TINKER has served on the faculties of Howard University, Federal City College, American University, and the University of California/Berkeley. She has conducted research in fifty-four countries and lectured in thirty-six. Tinker was director of the office of International Science at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where Margaret Mead taught her about lobbying the UN, and she co-founded the Wellesley Center for Research on Women and founded the International Center for Research on Women and the Equity Policy Center.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction : ideas into action
Crossroads for women at the UN 3
Breaking new ground at the UN and the World Bank 14
The UN, women, and development : the world conferences on women 26
Walking my own road : how a sabbatical year led to a United Nations career 37
Walking on eggshells at the UN 50
Challenging wisdom, changing policies : the women in development movement 65
Striding forward : an Italian NGO in the developing nations 78
The International Women's Tribune Centre : expanding the struggle for women's rights at the UN 90
Isis International : a Latin American perspective 103
Women's world banking 115
A view from the south : a story of intersections 128
A Caribbean journey : defending feminist politics 138
Searching for equality : WID needed at home and abroad 151
Seizing opportunities : USAID, WID, and CEDAW 164
Toward empowerment : influencing the Netherlands aid programs 176
Crossing the line : from academia to the WID office at USAID 189
Full circle : from academia to government and back 200
A Brazilian feminist and a new constitution 211
Pioneering women's forestry issues at FAO 225
Creating a commonwealth sisterhood 237
Women empowering women through NGOs 249
Gardening for development 262
The Ford Foundation and the power of international sisterhood 277
Hard minds and soft hearts : a university memoir 288
Notes from the middle border : WID on campus 301
Straddling borders : global to local 312
Education, women, and politics in Kenya 324

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