This is not a major issue in any of these theories Development and development views ID: 415135
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I would like to explore the possibility of gender discourse in providing new ways of approaching and addressing a wide range of social and cultural phenomena in development studies, both analytically and practically. I have organised the paper around two very basic assertions drawn from contemporary feminist theory in social sciences: a) firstly that gender is a key relational dimension of human activity and cannot be equated solely with women (Òadd women and stirÓ approach), b) and secondly, gender issues must necessarily vary from place to place and over time. It would therefore be impossible to deal exhaustively with all the most crucial gender issues in development studies. What I attempt to do is to situate development studies broadly within a limited set of inter-linked, evolving approaches to the study of gender. I begin with a brief historical overview of how gender emerged as a category of analysis in the literature on development and how it has transformed the nature of research questi This is not a major issue in any of these theories Development and development views ¥ Ideology, discourse and paradigm ¥ Development itself ¥ Engendering development Competition, competitiveness vs equality, inclusion vs. exclusion How benefit and burden of development are distributed The benefits of development are distributed unequally between the North and the South and between men and women Articul ¥ The relationship between reproductive and reproductive sphere ¥ Hierarchical relations between the N Objectivist of subjectivist position of theoretician? The role of reflexivity? The social embeddedness of scientific practice and theory building? Are we dealing with normative or analytical theories? With our without predictive power pre o Theories and historical-geographical dynamics (Hegemony, subsumption, marginalization) o Theories and historical praxis o Development policies have shifted over time from a focus only on women as biological units to one based on gender and relational and social dimensions, sometimes including environmental issues. 6. Methodol