Gender, Faith and Development

Practical Action Publishing

Gender, Faith and Development
Edited by Emma Tomalin (University of Leeds, UK)

‘Emma Tomalin’s edited volume starts with a keen appreciation of the importance, complexity, and sensitivity of the topic, and the rich array of chapters probe different dimensions of perceptions and realities, obstacles and opportunities.’
Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University

Faith-based organizations have long been involved in charitable and development activities. However, the emerging openness to thinking about and engaging with religion in development raises some important questions. Does religious engagement in development policy and practice risk harming already fragile gender relations? What are the challenges and opportunities in negotiating the relationships between religion, gender, and development?
Gender, Faith, and Development presents ten chapters which explore in different ways the relationships between religion, gender, and development. Subjects covered include attitudes towards sexual behaviour in areas with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS; household disputes over the control of export crop income in Kenya; constraints on women’s time among tourist lodge owners in Nepal; the difficulties of introducing Western models of gender equity to those in Muslim societies who see feminism as a threat; and changes in abortion legislation in Latin American countries.

ISBN 9781853397264
2011 • 176 pages
£15.95 • €23.95 • $31.95
Published in association with Oxfam GB
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