Citation

Lind A. World Dev. 1997; 25(8): 1205-1223.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00033-8

PMID

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Abstract

This article addresses the gender dimensions of women's community action in global cities. It focuses on two types of women's organizations (food provision and anti-violence) and draws out their implications for community and national development frameworks in the context of economic restructuring and urban poverty. The article undertakes three tasks: First, it rethinks frameworks of development and urban social change from a gender perspective. Second, it analyzes the ways in which local women's organizations have acted proactively--rather than merely reactively--to processes of urban restructuring. Third, it proposes an approach in which women's informal political and economic participation is better accounted for in national development frameworks and related community development initiatives.