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Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank

Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank

Bedford, Kate

Paperback

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0816665400
ISBN13: 9780816665402
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pr
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

A nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations.

By 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.

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