Struggling With Development: The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

by Lynn Kwiatkowski

Overview

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429976704
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lynn M. Kwiatkowski is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Photographs, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Developing Hunger in the Philippines, Gendered Experiences in Ifugao, Violence and Uncertainty, Spirituality and Hunger, Interpreting Hunger Biomedically, Maintaining Inequality, Power and Contradiction: Unlikely Alliances, Conclusion, Glossary, List of Acronyms, Bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

Anthropologist Kwiatkowski studies the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. She presents evidence that gender-specific international development perpetuates hunger and gender inequality rather than alleviating hunger in women and children and raising women's social position as intended. Drawing on her field work among the upland Ifugao people, she describes how programs have ignored local forms of inequality, and how health care has been used to serve a variety of ends besides reducing illness and hunger. The study was developed from her Ph.D. dissertation for the University of California sometime after 1993. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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