x, 246 pages ; 23 cm

"This book brings together a variety of feminist activities and academics, from both North and South, engaged in development, to answer these questions. Each describes her project and its feminist rationale, and analyses it through three fundamental challenges: the problem of making a feminist agenda work within development agencies, including the difficulties of finding funding and the constraints imposed by others; the ethical and methodological issues raised by feminism - including the differences between women and the legitimacy of studying 'the Other'; and the challenge of internationsl feminism: looking for new ways to work together for global change without imposing 'Western feminism' on Southern women."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index

Introduction: Caught in the web? feminists doing development / Marilyn Porter --Part I: The structures that confine us -- NGOs in a post-feminist era / Ines Smyth -- Development and women in Pakistan / Tahera Aftab -- Little progress, small niches: the WID mandate in Japanese foreign aid / Sue Ellen Charlton -- What I know about gender and development / Wu Qing -- Part II: Staying feminist in development -- Research and intervention: insights from feminist health action in Western India / Renu Khanna -- The right connections: partnering and expertise in feminist work for change / Barbara Cottrell -- Women Organizing for Change: transformational organizing as a strategy for feminist development / Collette Oseen -- Taking development in our hands / Nori Andriyani -- Part III: Integrating the local with the global -- Falling between the gaps / Fenella Porter & Valsa Verghese -- Globalization and development from the bottom / Joyce Green & Cora Voyageur -- Labor rights, networking and empowerment: mobilizing garment workers in Bangladesh / Habiba Zaman -- Part IV: Working with global structures -- Women organizing locally and globally: development strategies, feminist perspectives / Peggy Antrobus & Linda Christiansen-Ruffman -- Responding to globalization: can feminists transform development? / Joanna Kerr -- The New global architecture: gender and development practices / Isabella Bakker -- Afterword: opening spaces for transformative practice / Ellen Judd

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