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Children's Nutritional Status
Children’s Nutritional Status
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ethnographic case studies
Female Health Volunteers
feminist development critique
Food Supplementation Programs
Fundamentalist Protestant
gender-specific international development
gendered hunger in Philippine communities
Government NGO Partnership
hunger
Ifugao People
Ifugao Province
Ifugao society
IMF Lending
International Development Programs
Irrigated Rice Fields
medical anthropology
Moro National Liberation Front
NGO Health
NGO Volunteer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Government
political violence
rural health interventions
social inequality analysis
Southeast Asia studies
State Soldiers
Swidden Fields
UNICEF Program
UNICEF Report
Volunteer Health Workers
Western Development Programs
World Bank IMF
World Bank Structural Adjustment Loan
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- ISBN 9780813337845
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising of women's social position, has instead perpetuated the problems of hunger and gender inequality in societies.This ethnographic study of upland Ifugao social and cultural life in the Philippines portrays how Ifugao women's unequal relationship to men has been perpetuated by international development programs largely because development personnel tend to ignore ongoing processes of social inequality operating within local communities and between nations. International development programs leave local forms of inequality unchanged and sometimes increase social inequality despite their efforts to improve women's and children's social position and nutritional status. Examples and analyses of how local forms of inequality are ignored by international development programs are provided in the text. This book questions the international ?women in development? thrust of some feminist and development scholarships and organizations.Lynn Kwiatkowski also demonstrates how health care has been used in a variety of ways by different groups to serve ends other than the reduction of hunger or illness, including religious healing and military and revolutionary healing generated during the internal political conflict in the Philippines. Struggling with Development will be useful for advanced courses in medical anthropology and sociology, gender studies, development studies, and Asian studies.
Lynn M. Kwiatkowski is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.
