Book chapter
“Don’t Do Your Gender on Me!” Gender Mainstreaming and the Politics of Training in Vietnam
Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field, pp 71-87
30 Sep 2019
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Abstract
This chapter examines the role of gender training in the context of gender mainstreaming in Vietnam to illuminate how gender shapes and is shaped through development practice. Through thick description of a week-long gender training designed to mainstream gender into a rural development project, the author examines the role gender and development practitioners play as teacher–trainers in moving gender-mainstreaming policies beyond national development planning and rhetoric to affect local and cultural change. As they teach their students how to “think gender” they transform abstract gender equality policy commitments to fit the needs of different local constituents, who are themselves embedded in a complexity of gender, class, ethnic, age, and urban–rural power relations. In the process, training becomes a key political space, place and process where development subjects are produced, and gender expertise is negotiated. It is where teacher–trainers and their students actively negotiate the meaning of gender, equality, and development. It is a place where power and knowledge are constructed (and contested), and where trainers and trainees make visible their own political commitments and intentions as “insiders” and “outsiders” to the development process. As a result, training serves as an important site of engagement and contestation over the cultural and political meaning of gender mainstreaming, gender equality, and development in Vietnam, and as such has become an important space for feminist activism.
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- Title
- “Don’t Do Your Gender on Me!” Gender Mainstreaming and the Politics of Training in Vietnam
- Creators
- Kristy Kelly - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field, pp 71-87
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Global Studies and Modern Languages; School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000837264400006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85072130908
- Other Identifier
- 991019168212704721
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