
Feminists in Development Organizations
Change from the margins
Published: 2013
Pages: 244
eBook: 9781780448046
Paperback: 9781853398056
Hardback: 9781853398049
1 Introduction: Feminist bureaucrats: inside–outside perspectives
Rosalind Eyben and Laura Turquet
2 Gender mainstreaming, organizational change, and the politics of influencing
Rosalind Eyben
3 ‘A femocrat just doing my job’: working within the state to advance women’s empowerment in Ghana
Takyiwaa Manuh, Nana Akua Anyidoho, and Francesca Pobee-Hayford
4 Feminist identities
Rosalind Eyben
5 ‘It’s just a text – who cares?’ Construction of texts in the context of EU policies
Brigitte Holzner
6 ‘It’s fundamentally political’: renovating the master’s house
Patti O’Neill and Rosalind Eyben
7 Who is the better feminist? Negotiating the middle ground
Laura Turquet
8 Finding our organizational way
Rosalind Eyben
9 Values and systems: gender equality work in different organizational settings
Ines Smyth
10 Re-gendering the United Nations: old challenges and new opportunities
Joanne Sandler
11 Intimate knowledge of the material at hand
Rosalind Eyben
12 Feminist activism in development bureaucracies: shifting strategies and unpredictable results
Aruna Rao
13 Conclusion: the politics of marginality
Rosalind Eyben and Laura Turquet
Back Matter (Index)
Rosalind Eyben Rosalind Eyben is a Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, studying power and relations in international aid.
Laura Turquet Laura Turquet currently works in the Research and Data team at UN Women and has worked on gender equality as an advocate and researcher for the past decade.