Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: Repositioning Gender in Development Policy and Practice Workshop

List of participants Bridget O’Laughlin – ISS, The Netherlands Nida Abu Awwad – Bir Zeit University, Palestine Rekha Pappu – Anveshi, Hyderabad, India Nandinee Bandyopadhyay – Independent Ruth Pearson – University of Leeds, UK Consultant, India Nitya Rao – UEA, UK Stephanie Barrientos – IDS, UK Lamia Rashid – Save the Children Fund, Srilatha Batliwala – Harvard University, USA Bangladesh Jo Beall – LSE, UK Hazel Reeves – BRIDGE, UK Sylvia Chant – LSE, UK Cecilia Sardenberg – Universidade Federal de Francis Cleaver – Bradford University, UK Bahia, Brazil Andrea Cornwall – IDS, UK Charlie Sever – BRIDGE Deepa Dhanraj – D&N Productions, India Nandita Shah – Akshara, India Jo Doezema – IDS, UK Ylva Sornam Nath – Sida, Sweden Diane Elson – University of Essex, UK Hilary Standing – IDS, UK Rosalind Eyben – IDS, UK Ramya Subrahmanian – IDS, UK Sue Fleming – DFID, Brazil Alison Todes – University of Natal, South Africa Nandita Gandhi – Akshara, India Dzodzi Tsikata – University of Legon, Ghana Anne Marie Goetz – IDS, UK Susanne Wadstein – Sida, Sweden Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha – CIESAS del Sarah White – Bath University, UK Occidente, Mexico Ann Whitehead – , UK Margaret Greene – Population Action, USA Everjoice Win – ActionAid, Zimbabwe Elizabeth Harrison – University of Sussex, UK Prudence Woodford-Berger – Swedish Ministry Irene Hoel – NORAD, Norway of Foreign Affairs Shireen Huq – Narriphoko, Bangladesh Sushila Zeitlyn – DFID, Bangladesh Cecile Jackson – UEA, UK Islah Jad – Bir Zeit University/SOAS Gerd Johnsson-Latham – Swedish Ministry for Workshop papers Foreign Affairs Keynote Lecture: Amina Mama: Unleashing Critical Susie Jolly – IDS, UK Capacities: Preliminary Reflections on Feminist Naila Kabeer – IDS, UK Praxis in Selected African Contexts Deniz Kandiyoti – SOAS, UK Nandinee Bandyopadhyay: ‘Streetwalkers Show the Nazneen Kanji – IIED, UK Way’: Reframing the Debate on Trafficking from Melissa Leach – IDS, UK Shop Workers’ Perspective Amina Mama – African Gender Institute, Srilatha Batliwala/Deepa Dhanraj: Where Gender University of Cape Town Meets Resurgent Patriarchy – A Report on Gender Marjorie Mbilinyi – HakiElimu, Tanzania Myths and Feminist Fables from the Indian Frontline Maxine Molyneux – ILAS, UK Jo Beall/Alison Todes: Headlines or Head-space? Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay – KIT, The Challenging Gender Planning Orthodoxy in Area- Netherlands based Urban Development

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Sylvia Chant: Dangerous Equations? How Female- Marjorie Mbilinyi: Globalisation Hurts Women More headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Than Men Causes, Consequences and Cautions Maxine Molyneux: Social Capital: A Post Transition Frances Cleaver: Community Work, Gender and Social Concept? Questions of Context and Gender from a Capital Latin American Perspective Jo Doezema: Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay: Mainstreaming Gender Myth of Trafficking in Women or “Streaming” Gender Away: Feminists Marooned Rosalind Eyben: Why Aid Needs Women in the Development Business Sue Fleming: Who are the Women we are Working Bridget O’Laughlin: A Bigger Piece of a Very Small With? A Practitioner’s Tale on Power and Difference Pie: Intra-household Resource Allocation and Nandita Gandhi: Women Have Low Paid Unskilled Reduction in Africa Jobs so They are the Last to be Hired and the First Rekha Pappu: Within the Edifice of Development: to be Fired Education of Women in India Anne Marie Goetz: Political Cleaners: How Women Nitya Rao: Only Women Can and Will Represent are the New Anti-Corruption Force. Does the Women’s Interests: The Case of Land Rights Evidence Wash? Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg: Women? Translations, Re- Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha: The Construction significations, and Myths of “Gender” in of the Survival Myth Development Policy and Planning in Brazil Cecile Jackson: Risk, Insurance and Gender: Some Nandita Shah: Paid Work Gives Women a Better Status Slightly Contrarian Thoughts and a Decision-making Role Within the Family/ Isla Jad: The NGO-isation of the Arab Women’s Household Movements Hilary Standing: Institutionalising Gender at a Sectoral Gerd Johnson-Latham: Female Poverty and Level – What Does it Mean and Who Does it? Deprivation: Definitions, Extent and Causes Dzodzi Tsikata: From Gender Mainstreaming to a Susie Jolly: Southern Sexualities are all the Same Rights Based Approach: What is New and What Deniz Kandiyoti: Political Fiction Meets Gender Myth: Does it Mean for Policies? Post-conflict Reconstruction, “Democratisation” and Sarah White: The “Gender lens”: A Racial Blinder? Women’s Rights Ann Whitehead: Women, Men and African Agriculture Nazneen Kanji/Carin Vijfhuizen: Cracking the Everjoice Win: Not Really Poor, Powerless and Cashew Nut Myths?: Women’s Agency and Policy Pregnant: But Who Are These Women? Personal Discourse in the Cashew Sector in Mozambique Reflections from Feminist Activism Melissa Leach: Earth Mother Myths and Other Prudence Woodford-Berger: Gender Mainstreaming: Ecofeminist Fables What is it (About) and Should we Continue Doing it?

The Gender and Development In Brief Special Issue on ‘Gender Myths’, September 2004, brings together highlights from the Feminist Fables and Gender Myths conference in a six-page easy-to-read format. This is available free in English, French and Spanish, online at www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/ or can be ordered in email version or printed copy from:

BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, Tel: +44 (0) 1273 606261 Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202 Email: [email protected]

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