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a history of economic ideas
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Folbre, Nancy
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2009
- Thesaurus
- economie, gender, vrouwenarbeid, economische theorieën, kapitalisme, seksualiteit, feminisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Greed and lust are generally considered good only for men, and then only outside the realm of family life. The history of Western economic ideas shows that men have given themselves more cultural permission than women for the pursuit of both economic and sexual self-interest. Feminists have long contested the boundaries of this permission, demanding more than mere freedom to act more like men. Women have gradually gained the power to revise our conceptual and moral maps and to insist on a better-and less gendered-balance between self interest and care for others. This book brings women's work, their sexuality, and their ideas into the center of the dialectic between economic history and the history of economic ideas. It describes a spiralling process of economic and cultural change in Great Britain, France, and the United States since the 18th century that shaped the evolution of patriarchal capitalism and the larger relationship between production and reproduction. This feminist reinterpretation of our past holds profound implications for today's efforts to develop a more humane and sustainable form of capitalism.
civil society and literacy in a time of globalization
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- AFR 23 2009
- Thesaurus
- alfabetisering, economie, armoede, gender, Senegal
- Description
- The author argues that a development project or policy should not be understood and analyzed as a linear system. Instead, he believes we should view it as a complex and dialectical organism. Nordtveit lays out a method of analyzing development – both on the ground and in the think-tank. Informed by quotations from interviews with local people involved in a World Bank literacy project in Senegal, the author demonstrates how a project is entangled in the global economy, and how it constructs development through a discourse of gender equity, growth of the civil society, and promotion of the use of private provision of social services. The author also examines the strengths and weaknesses of ‘public-private partnerships’, which are being used ever more frequently by donor agencies to implement social services.
a comparative history and survey : volume one: issues
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gelb, Joyce > (ed.)
- Creator
- Palley, Marian Lief > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2009
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, mensenrechten, economie, ontwikkeling, onderwijs, geweld, vrouwenhandel, microkredieten, feminisme, gender, kinderopvang, borstvoeding, gezondheid, ziekten, wereld, Argentinië, Armenië, Australië, Canada, China, Denemarken, Duitsland, El Salvador, India, Japan, Mexico, Midden-Oosten, Mozambique, Nederland, Nigeria, Noord-Afrika, Rusland, Spanje, Taiwan, Verenigde Staten, Thailand, Zweden, Zwitserland, statistiek
- Description
- Though women represent more than half of the world's population, they account for only 15 percent of its elected officials, and their particular concerns often go unaddressed in the political arena. In this volume transnational and national gender-related issues to specific conditions in different global communities are discussed.
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