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Women and Planning

Author: Clara H. Greed

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1134895968

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began. Women and Planning is the first comprehensive history and analysis of women and the planning movement, covering the philosophical, practical and policy dimensions of `planning for women'. Beyond the marginalization of women, modern, scientific planning hides a story of past links with eugenics, colonialism, artistic, utopian and religious movements and the occult. Central to the discussion is the questioning of how male planners have rewritten planning in their own image, projecting patriarchal assumptions in their creation of `urban realities'. Issues of class, sexuality, ethnicity and disability are raised by the fundamental question of `Who is being planned for?'

Gender and Planning

Author: Susan S. Fainstein

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780813534992

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To document and analyze the connection between gender and planning, the editors of this volume have assembled an interdisciplinary collection of influential essays by leading scholars. Contributors point to the ubiquitous single-family home, which prevents women from sharing tasks or pooling services. Similarly, they argue that public transportation routes are usually designed for the (male) worker's commute from home to the central city, and do not help the suburban dweller running errands. In addition to these practical considerations, many contributors offer theoretical perspectives on issues such as planning discourse and the construction of concepts of rationality.

Gender Planning and Development

Author: Caroline Moser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1134935374

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Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global system. Gender Planning and Development provides an introduction to an issue of primary importance and constant debate. It will be essential reading for academics, practitioners, undergraduates and trainees in anthropology, development studies, women's studies and social policy.

Gender, Planning, and the Policy Process

Author: Jo Little

Publisher: Pergamon

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Planning has a central essential legitimacy in addressing social goals. Despite the ideal position of planning is being able to initiate, encourage & strengthen the links between the theory & practice of feminism in its relationship with gender,planning can act against women's interests & thus reinforce the unequal distribution of powers between the sexes, not only within the planning discipline but also in the assumptions & practice in our use of the built environment. This book provides a feminist interpretation of contemporary urban planning. It outlines the gender inequalities which characterize many areas of mainstream planning as well as the assumptions & practices surrounding our use of the built environment. The book incorporates detailed theoretical discussion on the underlying basis & form of women's subordination & applies this discussion to the development & implementation of planning policies. Attention focuses on both the establishment & operation of formal 'women's initiatives' within local government & on the promotion of specific policies aimed at meeitng women's needs within key areas of planning. - Habitat International, December 1994

Planning Development with Women

Author: Kate Young

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Presents an overview of women in development during the three UN Development Decades from 1960 to 1990. Includes case studies of women farmers in Africa, industrial workers in manufacturing for export in Asia, and informal sector workers in Latin America.

Women's Bodies, Women's Worries

Author: Tine Gammeltoft

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1136112901

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The first fully-fledged ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries is a study of women's lives in a rural commune in Vietnam's Red River delta. Starting as an examination of the impact of Vietnam's ambitious family planning policy on the health and lives of rural women, the study explores historical and contemporary socio-cultural forces which influence the lives of Vietnamese women. What begins as an investigation of contraceptive side effects becomes an inquiry into the daily lives of rural women, an examination of the moral ideologies by which women's lives are circumscribed, and an exploration of the ways women themselves manage and negotiate the moral demands and social relations which constitute daily lives. In addition, the book provides a sympathetic account of the everyday lives and concerns of rural women while also including theoretical considerations of the social grounding of bodily experience, the cultural meanings of health and illness, and the everyday politics of emotional expression.

Changing Perceptions

Author: Tina Wallace

Publisher: Humanities Press International

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Written by women from around the world, this wide-ranging collection of articles provides a fascinating overview of gender issues & will be essential reading for anyone concerned with development who is interested in hearing the voices of women.