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 fables': women are more likely to care for the environment; are … and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded in development policy and …

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 work for gender analysis while also exploring some of its silences and …