ABSTRACT

This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing societies? Second, does gender-mainstreaming have the conceptual, operational, and technical capacities to address the centrality of the body in 21st-century lobbies for gender equity? In answering these questions, Rowley examines such issues as reproductive rights and equity, sexual harassment, and sexual minorities' rights.

chapter |19 pages

Mapping the Terrains of Gender Equity

Gender Mainstreaming, Contexts, Compromises, and Conflicts

chapter |35 pages

Crafting Maternal Citizens

Historicizing Institutional Subjectivities within Gender Mainstreaming

chapter |36 pages

Co-Opting Gender and Bureaucratizing Feminism

Exploring Equity through the Institutionalization of “Gender”

chapter |36 pages

Reproducing Citizenship

A 20/20 Vision of Women's Reproductive Rights and Equity

chapter |44 pages

Keeping the Mainstream in Its Place

Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in the Workplace

chapter |34 pages

Development and Identity Politics

Securing Sexual Citizenship