| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 398 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
A volume of essays by one of the senior most Indian feminists alive today drawing on her work and scholarship spanning seven decades of the women's movement and the rise of development economics in India. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Sagehistory page -- Advance Praise -- Halftitle page -- Fulltitle page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Marketing page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Letting the Worm Turn -- Chapter 2 Development Theory and Practice -- Chapter 3 Gender and Poverty in India -- Chapter 4 Healing the Wounds of Development -- Chapter 5 Valuing Work: Time as a Measure -- Chapter 6 Nuancing Globalisation, or Mainstreaming the Downstream, or Reforming Reform -- Chapter 7 Food Battles, or Battling for Food -- Chapter 8 Are We Knowledge-Proof? -- Chapter 9 A View from the South -- Chapter 10 Women, Public Policy and the New World Order -- Chapter 11 Growth, Poverty and Inequality -- Chapter 12 Walking Together -- Chapter 13 Morals in Politics -- Chapter 14 Exploring Economic Inequality -- Chapter 15 The New World Re-order -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of Selected Works by Devaki Jain -- Index -- About the Author. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminist economics -- Developing countries.
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Feminist economics. |
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Developing countries. |
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Women in development -- Developing countries.
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Women in development. |
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Economic development -- Developing countries.
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Economic development. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jain, Devaki. Close Encounters of Another Kind : Women and Development Economics. New Delhi : SAGE Publications, ©2018 9789352807710 |
| ISBN |
9789352807727 (electronic book) |
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9352807723 (electronic book) |
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9789352807734 (electronic book) |
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9352807731 (electronic book) |
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9789352807710 (hardcover) |
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9352807715 (hardcover) |
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