This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his...

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist...