Gender and empowerment is a focus for Development as the journal revisits human development in 2010. In this latest Collection, leading voices in the gender and empowerment debate are reprinted as a major resource accompanying volume 53.
Development has always had a strong gender critique, with some of the most important gender analysts writing regularly for the journal, including the journal’s editor Wendy Harcourt. ‘Phantom Towers’ , the brilliant article by Ros Petchesky is now a standard text in gender and development courses and has been reprinted in many languages. Srilatha Batliwala, Gita Sen, Peggy Antrobus, Sonia Correa are well known members of Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era, the leading southern feminist research organisation. DAWN’s work has crafted the most important critical perspectives on gender and development in the last 25 years. Caren Grown has led much of the analytical feminist economics work in development with her focus on health, trade and assets. Susie Jolly’s original and courageous work on sexuality is continually pushing boundaries in gender and development.
This Collection is a taste of what is to come in volume 53, issue 2 of Development which features a dynamic and exciting set of articles. All of the authors selected here write for that issue. Interviews, original articles and commentaries provide a landmark volume in understanding alternatives to development through the prism of gender and power.
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