sexuality and ethnodevelopment in the World Bank's Ecuadorian lending
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Bedford, Kate
- Thesaurus
- ontwikkelingsbeleid, Wereldbank, kredieten, heteroseksisme, seksualiteit, betaalde arbeid, zorgarbeid, Ecuador
- Description
- This article explores the most prominent policy solution enacted by the World Bank to the tension between paid and unpaid work of women: the restructuring of normative heterosexuality to encourage a two-partner model of love and labour wherein women work more and men care better. Through a case study of Bank gender lending in Ecuador the author argues that staff are trying to (re)forge normative arrangements of intimacy, a policy preference that remains invisible unless sexuality is taken seriously as a category of analysis in development studies.