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What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed
policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such
policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies
address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class, caste,
ethnic identity and race? What are the conditions under which
policy may have transformative potential for poor women? This book
answers these questions and many more. Presenting a new feminist
framework for policy analysis that can account for policy failures,
Bina Fernandez argues that these failures are often predictable and
that it is necessary to unpack the actual policy practices within
the policy-implementation gap. Recognising that policy is a
multiply layered, contingent and politically contested discursive
process, the author proposes the analysis of policy through four
analytical categories: Constitutive Contexts, Representations,
Practices and Consequences. Within each of these four categories,
gender, class and ethnic identity are central axes of analysis. The
framework is given substance through an empirical case-study of an
anti-poverty policy in India, yet the wider relevance of the
framework is validated through a discussion of parallels in the
policy contexts of other developing countries. Transformative
Policy for Poor Women provides an important and required framework
to understand the gap between policy pronouncement and its praxis
on the ground. These features make this book an important read for
both scholars and practitioners seeking to understand policy in
developing country contexts.'
This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to
work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative
research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how
women's aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal
gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to
consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the
construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing the
impact of migration on social reproduction both in Ethiopia and the
destination countries, the book offers fresh empirical and
theoretical insights into the largest stream of women's autonomous
international migration from Africa.
What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed
policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such
policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies
address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class, caste,
ethnic identity and race? What are the conditions under which
policy may have transformative potential for poor women? This book
answers these questions and many more. Presenting a new feminist
framework for policy analysis that can account for policy failures,
Bina Fernandez argues that these failures are often predictable and
that it is necessary to unpack the actual policy practices within
the policy-implementation gap. Recognising that policy is a
multiply layered, contingent and politically contested discursive
process, the author proposes the analysis of policy through four
analytical categories: Constitutive Contexts, Representations,
Practices and Consequences. Within each of these four categories,
gender, class and ethnic identity are central axes of analysis. The
framework is given substance through an empirical case-study of an
anti-poverty policy in India, yet the wider relevance of the
framework is validated through a discussion of parallels in the
policy contexts of other developing countries. Transformative
Policy for Poor Women provides an important and required framework
to understand the gap between policy pronouncement and its praxis
on the ground. These features make this book an important read for
both scholars and practitioners seeking to understand policy in
developing country contexts.'
This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and
empirical analyses of women's access to land, labour and
livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that
gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other
social relationships such as caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality
and age, in order to inform an integrated analysis of women's
persistent disadvantage in India. The chapters examine a diverse
range of rural and urban livelihoods within sectors such as tea
plantations, nursing, hair salons, sex work and waste collection.
Documenting the shifts in these sectors in the context of economic
liberalization, the authors offer insights on the challenges of
development interventions as women negotiate shifts in their
livelihood options. Written to engage, the contributions to this
book will be of interest both to the general reader and to
academics and practitioners in development and gender/women's
studies.
This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and
empirical analyses of women's access to land, labour and
livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that
gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other
social relationships such as caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality
and age, in order to inform an integrated analysis of women's
persistent disadvantage in India. The chapters examine a diverse
range of rural and urban livelihoods within sectors such as tea
plantations, nursing, hair salons, sex work and waste collection.
Documenting the shifts in these sectors in the context of economic
liberalization, the authors offer insights on the challenges of
development interventions as women negotiate shifts in their
livelihood options. Written to engage, the contributions to this
book will be of interest both to the general reader and to
academics and practitioners in development and gender/women's
studies.
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