Reversed Realities Gender Heirachies in Development Thought
Naila Kabeer
- London Verso 1995
- xix, 346 p.:
- 10797 .
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Reversed Realities - Gender Heirachies in Development Thought . This text uncovers biases, which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current developement policy. She identifies the household as a primary site for construction of power relations and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of family unit.