TY - JOUR
AU - Zein-Elabdin, Eiman
AB - JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES Jel Vol. XXX No.4 December 1996 Development, Gender, and the Environment: Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender Eiman Zein-Elabdin The current discourse on development, gender, and the environment has emerged from a convergence of feminist and environmentalist critiques of economic development. This discourse is dominated by two paradigms: Women in Develop­ ment (WID) and ecofeminism. Although the two paradigms have been influential in advancing women's issues in economics, this influence has been limited by the lack of understanding of the institutional nature of gender among the proponents of the paradigms. This lack of recognition is due to the essentialist characterization of women that underlies both paradigms. In WID, women are treated as rational be­ ings who readily respond to economic incentives within any cultural setting; in ecofeminism, women possess a supra-material bond with nature that endows them with a privileged understanding of the environment and an innate ability to care for it regardless of the specific institutions at work. This oversight of the institutional nature of gender obscures its economic significance, its path dependence, and its re­ sistance to change. It also obscures power implications, thereby depriving the issue of gender 
TI - Development, Gender, and the Environment: Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender
JF - Journal of Economic Issues
DO - 10.1080/00213624.1996.11505859
DA - 1996-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/development-gender-and-the-environment-theoretical-or-contextual-link-fBVEDe81XQ
SP - 929
EP - 947
VL - 30
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -