This work examines the biases which underpin mainstream development
thought and which account for the marginal status given to women's
needs and interests in current development policy. The author
traces the emergence of awareness of gender hierarchies and
examines the inadequacies of social cost-benefit analysis, the most
widely-used method of evaluation of development projects. She also
traces the emergence of "women" as a specific category in
development thought and examines alternative frameworks for
analyzing gender hierarchies. She identifies the household as a
primary site for the construction of power relations and compares
the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different
approaches to the concept of the family unit. The book assesses the
inadequacies of the poverty line as a measuring tool and provides a
critical overview of an issue that has been contested by feminists:
population control, and also argues for the transformation of
development institutions, such as the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund.
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