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Construction of third world women's knowledge in the development discourse

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dc.contributor.authorGururani, S.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialHimalayasen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:30:40Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:30:40Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper reflects on the question of "fields of power" to explore the cultural relations of knowledge production. The gender dynamics, age, class, caste, education, marital status and other factors also influence the way knowledge is produced, shared, or silenced. The asymmetrical gender relations give men the power to ignore women's knowledge, and women the overestimation of men's knowledge. Knowledge also changes due to political, social and environmental causes as new knowledge is created. It is for these reasons that the author refutes the concept that women's knowledge is "special" to women because they are women. The paper defends that women's knowledge is not exclusive of women, but it is contextual based on women's roles and labor practices. Women's knowledge is practical knowledge and they are active creators of new knowledge. The focus should be turned to the knowledge within the power relations that shape production, transmission processes. The examples for the study were drawn from the Kumaon Himalayas.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3125en
dc.identifier.citationInternational Social Science Journal 54(173): 313-323en
dc.identifier.issn0020-8701en
dc.identifier.issn1468-2451en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67276en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishersen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2451.00384en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright UNESCOen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectKnowledge productionen
dc.subjectUnequal power relationsen
dc.subjectGender dynamicsen
dc.subjectWomen's knowledgeen
dc.subjectHimalayasen
dc.titleConstruction of third world women's knowledge in the development discourseen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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