Feminist Futures

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is professor of sociology, global studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. John Foran is professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Priya A. Kurian is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Waikato. Debashish Munshi is professor of management communication at the University of Waikato.

Preface to the Second Edition
1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian
Visions I
Maria’s Stories - Maria Ofelia Navarrete
The Woof and the Warp - Luisa Valenzuela
Consider the Problem of Privatisation - Anna Tsing

Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body
2. More ‘"Tragedies" in Out-of-the-Way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale’ - Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem
3. ‘Revolution with a Woman’s Face’? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post/Neoliberal Ecuador - Amy Lind
4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women’s Reproductive Identity in India’s Development Policy - Rachel Simon-Kumar
5. Abortion and African Culture: A Case Study of Kenya - Jane Wambui Njagi
6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water - Ifi Amadiume

Visions II
Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development - Dana Collins
Revolutionary Women’s Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in Rural Areas in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization - Peter Chua
‘What Should I Say about a Dream?’: Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency and Citizenship - Gauri Nandedkar

Part II: Environment, Technology, Science
7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars - David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian
8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India - Banu Subramaniam
9. What Would Rachel Say? - Joni Seager
10. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies - Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi
11. The Intersection of Women, Culture and Development: Conversations about Visions for the Future – Take Two - Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt

Visions III
Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution - John Foran
Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice - Light Carruyo
The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-Being, Resources for Struggle - Linda Klouzal

Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation
12. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan’s Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai
13. Revisiting the mostaz’af and the mostakbar - Minoo Moallem
14. Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: ‘Women, Culture and Development’ from a Francophone or Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu
15. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy - Raka Ray

Visions IV
An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Co-operation - Susanne Schech
On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development - Julie Shayne
Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development - Sangion Appiee Tiu
Reimagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope ... and You - John Foran

Postscript: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi