Feminist Post-Development Thought Book

	Abbreviations
	Acknowledgements
	Contributors
	Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism	1
I	Aiding Development or Post-Development	39
1	Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development from a Post-(Post-?) Development Perspective	41
2	Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies	57
3	Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India	69
II	The Feminization of the Global Economy	87
4	Counter-geographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival	89
5	Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a post-NAFTA Mexico	105
III	More Worldly Feminisms	121
6	Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-sac	123
7	Picture More at Variance: Of Desire and Development in the People's Republic of China	146
8	Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in Andean Communities	159
IV	The Science Question in Development	181
9	Mad Cows and Sacred Cows	183
10	Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development	199
11	Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference	212
V	Stories From the Field	225
12	Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in Development Discourse	227
13	Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields	243
14	Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women's Strategies of Power and Place	263
VI	Other Bodies	281
15	Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question	283
16	Reproductive Technologies: A Third World Feminist Perspective	298
17	Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica	313
	References and Bibliography	331
	Index	357