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Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices (2008)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2008). Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices. Community Development Journal, 43(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsn010

The world over, public institutions appear to be responding to the calls voiced by activists, development practitioners and progressive thinkers for greater public involvement in making the decisions that matter and holding governments to account for... Read More about Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices.

Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development (2008)
Book
Cornwall, A., Correa, S., & Jolly, S. (Eds.). (2008). Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350219588

This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offers inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaign... Read More about Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development.

Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth (2008)
Report
Kabeer, N., Eyben, R., & Cornwall, A. (2008). Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth

This paper proposes a framework for how empowerment can be conceptually understood and operationally explored. It makes recommendations for forthcoming areas of work within the POVNET Work Programme on empowering poor women and men to participate in,... Read More about Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth.

Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders (2007)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2007). Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2007.00007.x

Women's economic empowerment has come to play an increasingly prominent role in the policies of mainstream development agencies. This article draws on fieldwork amongst small‐scale traders in southwestern Nigeria to suggest that the capacity of trade... Read More about Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders.

Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development (2007)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (2007). Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development. Development and Change, 38(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00400.x

Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relati... Read More about Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development.

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (2007)
Book
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2007). Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444306675

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. - Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often tur... Read More about Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development.

Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges (2007)
Book
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2007). Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350220089

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Y... Read More about Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges.