Enduring passions : The fallacies of "gender‑focused" development in Kenya

"Women in development" (WID) was coined as an acronym, phrase, concept, program, platform and research focus during the course of the UN Decade for Women 1975‑1985 (Glazer, 1991). The coinage of "gender and development" (GAD) in the 1980's, theoretically expanded its concep...

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Autor principal: Nyancham‑Okemwa, Stella
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Bulletin de l’APAD 2006
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:"Women in development" (WID) was coined as an acronym, phrase, concept, program, platform and research focus during the course of the UN Decade for Women 1975‑1985 (Glazer, 1991). The coinage of "gender and development" (GAD) in the 1980's, theoretically expanded its concept from "women's promotion" to the "improvement of a quality of life" for all members of the society, regardless of sex, race or class distinction (Snyder and Tadesse, 1993). Notwithstanding this conceptual expansion, most ...