Amy Lind: 5 books

Book cover of Gendered Paradoxes

Gendered Paradoxes

Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

by Amy Lind
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses...
Book cover of The Women, Gender and Development Reader
by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011

The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...
Book cover of Feminist Futures

Feminist Futures

Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Raka Ray
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016

The first edition received widespread praise, including from eminent scholars such as Gita Sen and Amina Mama (see quotes below) The only book on the subject to cover the Global South as a whole and to bring together such a wide variety of disciplines and approaches. Offers a critical feminist perspective on development. Bridges the gap between development scholarship and feminist activism. 
Book cover of Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
by Amy Lind
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual...
Book cover of Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America

Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America

Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective

by Amy Lind, Marianne H. Marchand
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies, which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. These tensions have catalyzed...
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