ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Julie Castro looks at gender at the WSF in Dakar. Combining a locally grounded approach with the results of the collective research, she portrays the whole range of actors of the women’s cause (transnational, but also international and local organizations). She then analyzes the weight, spaces, tensions, and blind spots of the women’s cause in Dakar, and shows that it was shaped by broader trends that structure the contemporary Senegalese society, notably the development industry and the remoralization of the public sphere.
