How gendered is Gender and Development? Culture, masculinity, and gender difference

Jyotirmaya Tripathy

Development in Practice, 2010, vol. 20, issue 1, 113-121

Abstract: Gender studies in general, and Gender and Development (GAD) in particular, through their belief in a cultural conditioning of gender behaviour, use the idea of ‘culture’ in a restrictive sense which perpetuates a conceptual difference between men and women, and also between First World and Third World women. There is a tendency among gender experts to magnify the difference between men and women, and categorise them into two radically different realms. This article argues for a gender project based on the idea of culture as lived experience. It approaches gender not as a category of exclusion but as a problematic construct that is constantly restructuring itself.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520903436901

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