TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Gender, development and urban social change: Women's community action in global cities
JO  - World development
A1  - Lind, Amy
SP  - 1205
EP  - 1223
VL  - 25
IS  - 8
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0305-750X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00033-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -