SOSC 1430 Chapter Notes -Vandana Shiva, Sustainable Forest Management, Ecofeminism
11 Oct 2013
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Quote on working, independence, socio-economic power within work for women (385) Many agencies believe that policies focused on bettering the situation of women, they only better the practical needs rather than strategically (387) Strategic needs: genders needs that women identify because of their subordinate position to men. Wid: belief that development process was deteriorating women"s position in developing countries solution: integration. Wad: questioning that wid looked at exclusion of women from the development process rather than the process that was the problem. Dawn: development policies ignore the structural constraints faced by low income and middle income countries unless the models of development were transformed into more equitable approach, there could be no justice for southern women (390) Gad: looks at gender relations and how it affects development projects and gendered processes of development this approach has been taken into a range of development practices/policies.
