The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development Critical Engagements

As Raewyn Connell states in her Foreword, 'this Handbook plunges us straight into some of the most disturbing and important issues of our time. Global injustice and violence; the nature of care and love; new forms of power and resistance; the politics of

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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice Edited by

Wendy Harcourt Associate Professor of Critical Development and Feminist Studies, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Netherlands

Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Wendy Harcourt 2016 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2016 Foreword © Raewyn Connell 2016

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

x

Acknowledgements

xi

Foreword Raewyn Connell

xii

Notes on Contributors

xviii

Introduction: Dilemmas, Dialogues, Debates Wendy Harcourt

1

Section I Gender, Power, Decoloniality 1.0 The Coloniality of Gender Maria Lugones

13

1.1 On Gender and Its ‘Otherwise’ Catherine Walsh

34

1.2 Gender and Equivocation: Notes on Decolonial Feminist Translations Claudia de Lima Costa

48

1.3 The Coloniality of Gender as a Radical Critique of Developmentalism Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez

62

Section II Institutions, Policies, Governmentality 2.0 Mainstreaming Gender or “Streaming” Gender Away: Feminists Marooned in the Development Business Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

77

2.1 Mainstream(ing)