Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
Feminist Subversion and Complicity brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India, who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy and gender. They offer critical feminist perspecti...
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
Abstract The issue of good governance assumed enormous significance in debates on global development in the 1990s. By and large, this translated into policies aimed at building accountability of public administration institutions to the broad 'public', but omitted to consider two key issues: first, ...
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
Most development practitioners have the following preconceived notions about gender and culture: 1) that gender relations are equated with the most intimate aspects of society; 2) that culture and tradition are immutable; 3) that there is no independent resistance to subordination within the culture...
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Rosalind Eyben, Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan et al.
This report concerns the historical trajectory of women's rights organisations (WROs) in Bangladesh and Ghana within the changing national contexts as well as the shifting international aid landscape in the last two decades and identifies the influence of external financing on what the organisations...
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan, Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay