Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework - Hardcover

Fernandez, Bina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409405079 ISBN 13: 9781409405078

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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'In the development policy literature, this arresting book will rank alongside Ferguson's classic The Anti-Politics Machine. At the empirical level, Transformative Policy for Poor Women explains the routine paradox of policy that fails to benefit its beneficiaries. At the theoretical level, Bina Fernandez has combined critical public administration with a feminist anti-reductionism in a novel and fertile approach. This well-written book is sure to inspire applications worldwide - and the world will be the better for them.' Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University, UK 'Why and how do anti-poverty policies so often fail to benefit poor women? Fernandez interrogates these persistent failures with an engaging combination of scholarly precision and feminist focus. She provides a lucid explanation of her innovative framework for policy investigation: the relationship between constitutive contexts, policy representations, policy practices and consequences. Going beyond the original context prompting this analysis - policy for poor women in India - she applies her framework across several developing countries to demonstrate its relevance as an alternative policy approach for analyzing intersecting inequalities. An insightful book that clearly moves debates forward.' Caroline Dyer, University of Leeds, UK 'At a time when "poor women" have become a primary target of anti-poverty policies, this book provides a much-needed analytical framework for understanding why policy objectives are not often achieved and why there may be persistent policy failures. Moving beyond the "thin" prescription/evaluation mind-set that characterises the study of policy in developing countries, it provides us with a "thick" description of policy as simultaneously about the discursive production of meaning and as a regime of practices.' Shahra Razavi, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland 'Transformative Policy for Poor Women provides an insightful and practical framework for feminist policy analysis, filling an absolutely crucial gap in feminist development literature... Fernandez's framework is a useful tool and her findings confirm some long-held beliefs of feminist critics, grounding them in a rigorous study that includes policy recommendations for transforming anti-poverty policy. The book is noteworthy for its development of a far-reaching and theoretically considered framework for policy analysis: by rejecting a reductive policy design/implementation binary, Fernandez provides insights into the flaws written into policy and reproduced through informal policy practices... It will prove a useful text for specialists although it requires a large amount of background knowledge and so may be less appropriate for students. Nonetheless, Bina Fernandez's contribution to feminist development literature is a significant step forward in addressing the gap between feminist hopes for transformative policy and the reality of development policy today.' Political Studies Review

Reseña del editor:

What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class, caste, ethnic identity and race? What are the conditions under which policy may have transformative potential for poor women? This book answers these questions and many more. Presenting a new feminist framework for policy analysis that can account for policy failures, Bina Fernandez argues that these failures are often predictable and that it is necessary to unpack the actual policy practices within the policy-implementation gap. Recognising that policy is a multiply layered, contingent and politically contested discursive process, the author proposes the analysis of policy through four analytical categories: Constitutive Contexts, Representations, Practices and Consequences. Within each of these four categories, gender, class and ethnic identity are central axes of analysis. The framework is given substance through an empirical case-study of an anti-poverty policy in India, yet the wider relevance of the framework is validated through a discussion of parallels in the policy contexts of other developing countries. Transformative Policy for Poor Women provides an important and required framework to understand the gap between policy pronouncement and its praxis on the ground. These features make this book an important read for both scholars and practitioners seeking to understand policy in developing country contexts.'

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1409405079
• ISBN 13: 9781409405078
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208