Eye to Eye

Schenck Celeste Perry Susan

ISBN 10: 1856498476 / ISBN 13: 9781856498470

Published by Zed Books Ltd., 2002

pp. 304. Seller Inventory # 3188006

Synopsis:

'This novel and exhilarating book provides a much-needed bridge between the theory of development and its practice. Lively, trenchant, often eloquent, the essays show women confronting urgent issues of gender justice in ways that bring theoretical perspectives to bear on practice, and also show how good theory is illuminated by actual engagements. The authors write about development problems in an impressive array of countries: China, India, Bangladesh; Ghana and South Africa; Israel and Palestine; Senegal, Nigeria, France; Australia and Mauritius. The questions confronted range widely, including the role of the World Bank in promoting gender equity, the role of women's issues in higher education, the relationship between gender justice and traditional religion or ideologies, and the role of the literary imagination in creating women's futures. This is essential reading for anyone interested in development, feminism and, more generally, in the power of the human imagination' - Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago 'Not just another academic tome on development, this book bristles with life--the lived stories of development across the globe. As an activist, I especially appreciated its attention to the details and differences of practice in various local cultures. The women writing for and written about in these pages speak in an invigorating range of voices. They are development feminists: an international, interdisciplinary community of women working from the grassroots level on up to produce sustainable development solutions to the problems we face today' - Beulah Moonsingh, Executive Director Agromart Foundation, Sri Lanka

About the Author: Susan Perry teaches International Affairs at the American University of Paris and is the co-founder and organizer of the 'Women, Culture and Development Practices' conference series held at the French Senate. She has taught in China as a Yale-China fellow and has written many articles on Chinese politics, economics and gender. As a consultant on women's issues for the U.S. State Department's Africa Regional Services Program, she has travelled widely in Africa. Celeste Schenck is Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris where she founded and directs the Gender Studies programme. She is co-founder and organizer of the conference on 'Women, Culture and Development Practices' held at the French Senate. The author of numerous books and articles on women's poetry, autobiography, and feminist theory, since 1987 she has co-edited 'Reading Women Writing', a series in feminist criticism published by Cornell University Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Eye to Eye
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New