{"product_id":"developing-partnerships-gender-sexuality-and-the-reformed-world-bank-paperback-softback-9780816665402","title":"Developing Partnerships; Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816665402","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKate Bedford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816665402\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 August 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bedford’s pathbreaking work is a must-read for development scholars and practitioners, given its demonstration of the centrality of particular constructions of gender and sexuality to the current development paradigm of ‘inclusive neoliberalism’ (xiii).\"-\u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated, carefully designed, and readable analysis of the intersection of the World Bank with sexual politics. Bedford’s book succeeds both as a cautionary tale and as a call for continued counter-hegemonic efforts within and outside the bank.\"-\u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, \u003ci\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/i\u003e argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's largest and most influential development institution. Looking concurrently at economic and gender policy, Bedford connects reform of markets to reform of masculinities, loan agreements for export promotion to pamphlets for indigenous adolescents advising daily genital bathing, and attempts to strengthen institutions after the Washington Consensus to efforts to promote loving couplehood in response to economic crisis. In doing so, she reveals the shifting relationships between development and sexuality and the ways in which gender policy impacts debates about the future of neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding a multilayered account of how gender-aware policies are conceived and implemented by the World Bank, \u003ci\u003eDeveloping Partnerships\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates as well how institutional practices shape development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Working Women, Caring Men, and the Family Bank: Ideal Gender Relations after the \u003cbr\u003e  Washington Consensus\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Model Region Remodels Partnerships: The Politics of Gender Research in Latin \u003cbr\u003e  America and the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 3. Forging Partnerships, Sidelining Child Care: How Ecuadorian Femocrats Navigate \u003cbr\u003e  Institutional Constraints in World Bank Gender Policy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roses Mean Love: Export Promotion and the Restructuring of Intimacy in Ecuador\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cultures of Saving and Loving: Ethnodevelopment, Gender, and Heteronormativity \u003cbr\u003e  in PRODEPINE\u003cbr\u003e 6. Holding It Together: Family Strengthening in Argentina\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570072121624,"sku":"9780816665402","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/developing-partnerships-gender-sexuality-and-the-reformed-world-bank-paperback-softback-9780816665402","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}