Gender training proliferated in the1990s and gained ground with the emphasis on gender mainstreaming, a strategy adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference of Women in Beijing. At present gender training is increasingly being questioned as a tool and as a concept to engender development due to its disappointing performance to contribute to gender equality.Bringing together case studies and analyses of gender training from different country and regional contexts, this book revisits much of the thinking behind gender education and training. Together, the books authors explore the explicit and, more often, implicit assumptions in gender training about the nature of knowledge (epistemology), imparting knowledge (pedagogy) and knowing (cognition).This book, the tenth in the Gender, Society and Development: Global Sourcebooks Series, features case studies and an extensive and up-to-date annotated bibliography of international resources, in print and online, making it a truly global sourcebook on the topic.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Acronyms Introduction Gender training: politics or development? A perspective from India by Jashodhara Dasgupta Gender training and the politics of mainstreaming in post-Beijing Uganda by Josephine Ahikire Changing the unchangeable: reflections on selected experiences in gender training in the Machreq/Maghreb region by Lina Abou-Habib Gender and development training in the Francophone world: making up ground without repeating mistakes? by Claudy Vouhee Reframing rights for social change by Shamim Meer Annotated bibliography Web resources About the authors

Author Biography

Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D, is a social anthropologist specialized in social development with a focus on gender and development. Dr Mukhopadhyay is the Area Leader for Social Development and Gender Equity for KIT Development Policy & Practice where she is responsible for programme development with a special focus on gender, citizenship and governance and rights-based approaches in development.