Gender, Development, and the State in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19927243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carole Spary (0000-0001-8448-4994, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 258 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Gender Development and the State in India (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429022647 |
| OpenAlex | W2937069713 |
| ISBN | 9780429022647 |
| Open Library | OL29417097M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book pays particular attention to whether the international policy language of gender mainstreaming has been adopted by the Indian state, and if so, to what extent and with what results. The author examines how these issues play out at multiple levels of governance – at both the national and the subnational (state) level in federal India. This comparative aspect is particularly important in the context of increasing autonomy in development policymaking in India in the 1990s, divergent development policy approaches and outcomes among states, and the emerging importance of subnational state development policies and programmes for women in this period. The author argues that the state is not a monolith but a heterogeneous, internally differentiated collection of institutions, which offers complex and varying opportunities and consequences for feminists engaging the state. Demonstrating that the Indian empirical case is illuminating for studies of the gendered politics of development, and international debates on gender mainstreaming, the book highlights the politics of negotiating gender equality strategies in the contemporary context of neo-liberal development and brings together complex issues of modernity, postcolonialism, identity politics, federalism, and equality within the broader context of the world’s largest democracy. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the politics of gender equality, state feminism, and gender mainstreaming; federalism and multi-level governance; and development studies and gender in South Asia
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| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |