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Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, And Global Development In Ecuador by Amy Lind

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Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, And Global Development In Ecuador Amy Lind
Language: English
Page: 182
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0271025441, 9780271025445
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Amy Lind provides an excellent account of the paradoxes of gendered neoliberal politics in a country about which little on this topic has been published. Through a detailed analysis of women's organizational and community survival strategies, the author ably demonstrates how women's politics both reshape and are shaped by the dynamics of neoliberalism. Tackling the essential task of 'making feminist sense of neoliberalism,' Lind's timely study provides invaluable insights into the contradictions of development and globalization. --Lynne Phillips, University of Windsor

A nuanced and critical reading of gender, development, and globalization issues. Lind's panoramic analysis of Ecuadorian women's negotiations with development projects, the state, neoliberal adjustment policies, and NGOs provides a theoretical framework and an ethnographic account of issues with a global resonance. Exploring the gendered political cultures of development in Ecuador, she analyses the contradictory processes by which gender, institutions, and political movements come together in the uneven process of neoliberal restructuring. --Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge

Gendered Paradoxes takes us through the complex processes though which women in Ecuador have increased their participation in the country's political, social, and economic battlegrounds since the 1980s. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and based on a good understanding of gender analysis, Amy Lind describes how women have negotiated with the state and gained visibility within the context of neoliberal policies and gender politics. Analyzing the different strands of feminism that have shaped activism, she shows how they have contributed to rethinking democratic governance while mobilizing themselves to encounter the 'contradictions of modernization and development.' The book is an important contribution to the literature on gender and development in Latin America. --Lourdes Benería, Cornell University, author of Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
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About the Author

Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati.