Loving to straighten out development
- Creator
- Bedford, Kate
Loving to straighten out development
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.
- Creator
- Bedford, Kate