The Imperative of Male Inclusion: How Institutional Context Influences World Bank Gender Policy

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Time to Call the Bluff: (De)-constructing ‘Women's Vulnerability’, HIV and Sexual Health

“…This division of labour and responsibility is privatized at the level of households, or 'the family'^a far cry from second wave feminism and contestations of women's domestication and the privatization of care within the nuclear family unit. Bedford (2007) provides an incisive analysis of the World Bank's gender-binary policies' focus on gendered 'complementarities' of couples. These have led poor men to become hyper-visible as 'irresponsible partners' , and as the key to 'the gender policy problem' .…”

Feminism i företagsform?

“…Även i en svensk kontext, där arbetet med jämställdhetsintegrering inbegriper allt fler sektorer, är detta växande fenomen i princip helt outforskat. Existerande forskning återfinns framförallt inom internationell politik, där jämställdhetsexperters roll i internationella organisationer och internationellt policyskapande har utforskats (Ferguson 2014;Prügl 2013;Chant 2012;Bedford 2007;Campbell och Teghtsoonian 2010). Dessa jämställdhetsexperter anlitas ofta på konsultbasis, och deras roll är på många sätt jämförbar med svenska jämställdhetskon-sulters.…”

The Dual Feminisation of HIV/AIDS

“…This focus on vulnerability obscures any wider understanding of the presence of women within HIV/AIDS governance and activity. As argued in Bedford's research into World Bank gender initiatives in Ecuador, where women are afforded any power within the HIV/AIDS response it is a form of limited autonomy 'with frequent references to neo-classical household models' as well as debate over the shifting focus towards men arising from the constraints of complementarity between the sexes in addressing issues of gender (Bedford, 2008, 101;Bedford, 2007) were limited in impact because of the institutional constraints. Women were aware of various approaches to gender but they did not necessarily prioritise the issue over others, or if they did there was nothing to suggest this was because they were active feminists -with the exception in some cases of those working within gender-specific units or programmesor women.…”