Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1511323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maitrayee |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHOPADHYAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | (PhD) is an Indian feminist with over 30 years' experience in development, 20 years of which has been in gender and development. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disrupting Anxious Masculinity
Within the experience of our work in India, context and positionality determine what we perceive as backlash against gender justice. An important underlying cause of backlash today is the widespread crisis of masculinities, where subaltern masculinities are evolving differently in response to the aggressive nationalist Hindutva masculinity. Gender and development strategies have failed to recognise or address this. This article analyses grounded …
Making effective referrals happen
Effective referral is a critical element of a well-functioning health system. While having a good referral policy in place is important, equally important is its effective implementation. Using the implementation of a policy on referral of obstetric emergencies in Shanghai as a case, we illustrate the application of the ‘Inhabited Institutions’ analytical approach for studying policy implementation. In doing so, our study highlights how ‘referral…
Performative technologies
The article draws on insights from feminist literature, science and technology studies (STS) and governmentality studies to explore how technologies introduced through agricultural research for development (ar4d) participate in performing gender. Drawing on gender audits of two international agricultural research institutions, we discuss the performativity of three types of technologies: material technologies intended to increase agricultural pro…
Gender Mainstreaming Critiques
An enduring legacy of the Beijing conference, gender mainstreaming has been widely implemented and widely critiqued since the 1990s. But the basis of these critiques has changed over time: this article charts a typology of critique approaches. It shows how the central problem is diagnosed variously as the loss of the political dimensions of gender in the course of mainstreaming; or technical shortcomings; or the gendered nature of organisations a…
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Gender, rights and development
Mainstreaming Gender or “Streaming” Gender Away
This article is about taking stock of experiences of mainstreaming gender. It addresses two related concerns. First, that after three decades of feminist activism in the field of development — both at the level of theory and practice — most development institutions have still to be constantly reminded of the need for gender analysis in their work, policymakers have to be lobbied to “include” the “g” word and even our own colleagues need convincin…
Creating citizens who demand just governance
The issue of good governance assumed enormous significance in debates on global development in the 1990s. By and large, this translated into policies aimed at building accountability of public administration institutions to the broad 'public', but omitted to consider two key issues: first, the 'public' consists of women and men, who have gender-differentiated needs and interests; second, civil-society institutions have a role to play in creating …
A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks
Gender relations, development practice and 'culture
Most development practitioners have the following preconceived notions about gender and culture: 1) that gender relations are equated with the most intimate aspects of society; 2) that culture and tradition are immutable; 3) that there is no independent resistance to subordination within the culture; and 4) that religion is culture. These notions interfere with work on developing equitable gender relations and complicate efforts to allocate resou…
Silver Shackles
Mainstreaming Gender or “Streaming” Gender Away
This article is about taking stock of experiences of mainstreaming gender. It addresses two related concerns. First, that after three decades of feminist activism in the field of development — both at the level of theory and practice — most development institutions have still to be constantly reminded of the need for gender analysis in their work, policymakers have to be lobbied to “include” the “g” word and even our own colleagues need convincin…
Performative technologies
The article draws on insights from feminist literature, science and technology studies (STS) and governmentality studies to explore how technologies introduced through agricultural research for development (ar4d) participate in performing gender. Drawing on gender audits of two international agricultural research institutions, we discuss the performativity of three types of technologies: material technologies intended to increase agricultural pro…
Gender Mainstreaming Critiques
An enduring legacy of the Beijing conference, gender mainstreaming has been widely implemented and widely critiqued since the 1990s. But the basis of these critiques has changed over time: this article charts a typology of critique approaches. It shows how the central problem is diagnosed variously as the loss of the political dimensions of gender in the course of mainstreaming; or technical shortcomings; or the gendered nature of organisations a…
Gender relations, development practice and 'culture
Most development practitioners have the following preconceived notions about gender and culture: 1) that gender relations are equated with the most intimate aspects of society; 2) that culture and tradition are immutable; 3) that there is no independent resistance to subordination within the culture; and 4) that religion is culture. These notions interfere with work on developing equitable gender relations and complicate efforts to allocate resou…
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Disrupting Anxious Masculinity
Within the experience of our work in India, context and positionality determine what we perceive as backlash against gender justice. An important underlying cause of backlash today is the widespread crisis of masculinities, where subaltern masculinities are evolving differently in response to the aggressive nationalist Hindutva masculinity. Gender and development strategies have failed to recognise or address this. This article analyses grounded …
Making effective referrals happen
Effective referral is a critical element of a well-functioning health system. While having a good referral policy in place is important, equally important is its effective implementation. Using the implementation of a policy on referral of obstetric emergencies in Shanghai as a case, we illustrate the application of the ‘Inhabited Institutions’ analytical approach for studying policy implementation. In doing so, our study highlights how ‘referral…
Creating citizens who demand just governance
The issue of good governance assumed enormous significance in debates on global development in the 1990s. By and large, this translated into policies aimed at building accountability of public administration institutions to the broad 'public', but omitted to consider two key issues: first, the 'public' consists of women and men, who have gender-differentiated needs and interests; second, civil-society institutions have a role to play in creating …
Silver Shackles
Gender relations, development practice and 'culture
Most development practitioners have the following preconceived notions about gender and culture: 1) that gender relations are equated with the most intimate aspects of society; 2) that culture and tradition are immutable; 3) that there is no independent resistance to subordination within the culture; and 4) that religion is culture. These notions interfere with work on developing equitable gender relations and complicate efforts to allocate resou…
A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks
Creating citizens who demand just governance
The issue of good governance assumed enormous significance in debates on global development in the 1990s. By and large, this translated into policies aimed at building accountability of public administration institutions to the broad 'public', but omitted to consider two key issues: first, the 'public' consists of women and men, who have gender-differentiated needs and interests; second, civil-society institutions have a role to play in creating …
Mainstreaming Gender or “Streaming” Gender Away
This article is about taking stock of experiences of mainstreaming gender. It addresses two related concerns. First, that after three decades of feminist activism in the field of development — both at the level of theory and practice — most development institutions have still to be constantly reminded of the need for gender analysis in their work, policymakers have to be lobbied to “include” the “g” word and even our own colleagues need convincin…
Gender, rights and development
Role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China
This paper explores the role of evidence in maternal health policy processes in Vietnam, India and China. Both formal and informal types of evidence were used; and differences were found between the stages of policy processes. Evidence used mostly covered easily quantifiable issues and clearly identifiable technical solutions. Different policy actors were involved; actors’ evidence preferences were affected by their power, agendas, values and per…
Gender Mainstreaming Critiques
An enduring legacy of the Beijing conference, gender mainstreaming has been widely implemented and widely critiqued since the 1990s. But the basis of these critiques has changed over time: this article charts a typology of critique approaches. It shows how the central problem is diagnosed variously as the loss of the political dimensions of gender in the course of mainstreaming; or technical shortcomings; or the gendered nature of organisations a…
Performative technologies
The article draws on insights from feminist literature, science and technology studies (STS) and governmentality studies to explore how technologies introduced through agricultural research for development (ar4d) participate in performing gender. Drawing on gender audits of two international agricultural research institutions, we discuss the performativity of three types of technologies: material technologies intended to increase agricultural pro…
Making effective referrals happen
Effective referral is a critical element of a well-functioning health system. While having a good referral policy in place is important, equally important is its effective implementation. Using the implementation of a policy on referral of obstetric emergencies in Shanghai as a case, we illustrate the application of the ‘Inhabited Institutions’ analytical approach for studying policy implementation. In doing so, our study highlights how ‘referral…
Disrupting Anxious Masculinity
Within the experience of our work in India, context and positionality determine what we perceive as backlash against gender justice. An important underlying cause of backlash today is the widespread crisis of masculinities, where subaltern masculinities are evolving differently in response to the aggressive nationalist Hindutva masculinity. Gender and development strategies have failed to recognise or address this. This article analyses grounded …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender equality (3 works) · Gender mainstreaming (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)