"THIRD WORLD" WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A FORMULA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?

The Colonial Bengal of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of contradictions. For instance, despite certain evident advancements in the resolution of the women’s question, some of the emancipatory attempts of the period marked a rather dubious account of women’s liberation as patriarchal underpinnings hegemonized the efforts. Amid this complex backdrop, the colonial women’s position is further jeopardized by the western feminist scholarship that contrives colonial third world women as perennial victims and beneficiaries of emancipatory actions from the West. The paper attempts to relocate the colonial women and their resistance by negotiating the fissures in their construction. This study, informed by bell hooks’ (1990) postulations on margin and resistance, simultaneously seeks to form a bridge between the experiences of marginalized women beyond borders. Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh (1901) and Chaturanga (1916) are chosen for close textual reading to examine the experiences of colonial women. The author’s women protagonists often embody the social dilemma of the period. Tagore’s Damini and Charu exist in the margin of resistance whilst Nanibala occupies the margin of deprivation. Significantly, Charu and Damini traverse the precarious “profound edges” of the margin to imagine a “new world” free of subjugation. Thus, the resistance offered by these women subverts the predominant conceptions of victimhood of colonial women, and it enables them to be posited as active agents.

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Race, Gender and "Difference": Representations of "Third World Women" in International Development

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry ◽

10.24908/jcri.v2i2.4723 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Christiana Abraham

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Third World ◽

Developing World ◽

Doctoral Study ◽

Canadian International Development Agency ◽

Women In Development ◽

Third World Women ◽

The Third World ◽

Representations Of Women ◽

Images Of Women

AbstractThis paper analyses images of international development through a study of the ways in which development representations produce and circulate “difference” with respect to women and the developing world. Through both overt and subtle narratives, representations of women as “different,” “distant” and “other” construct both the object and subject of development. The paper discusses the process by which racialization operates in development through gender as a signifying practice. Based on a doctoral study of communication materials of Women in Development (WID) images produced by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the paper analyses images of women of the developing world in communication materials attached to major campaigns during the Women in Development (WID) period. WID represents an important legacy of today’s prevalent images of women in development. The paper situates this legacy within the colonial roots of development and its representations, which include historical constructions of the "third world woman" that intricately reproduce a range of colonial images and practices. Images of "third world women" have become development’s most eminent symbol, yet many continue to communicate static and predictable views about the developing world.

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Becoming third world women educators

Re-imagining Education for Democracy ◽

10.4324/9780429242748-14 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 203-223

Author(s):

Bruna Lopes Duraes

Keyword(s):

Women Educators ◽

Third World ◽

Third World Women

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Eco-Cultural Tourism for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development of Remote Ecosystems in the Third World

International Tourism and Hospitality in the Digital Age - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8268-9.ch003 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 34-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

G. Poyyamoli

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Third World ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Active Management ◽

Paradigm Shifts ◽

Resource Base ◽

The Third ◽

The Third World

Most of the remote areas such as mountains and islands are characterized by the features such as remoteness, fragility, endemism, and upland/lowland or island/mainland linkages, besides richer biodiversity and indigenous knowledge, thus attracting a large number of quality conscious tourists. However, conventional “top-down”, reactive and ad-hoc approaches and ill-conceived “development” activities such as infrastructure for mass tourism will destroy the very natural and cultural resource base on which the tourism thrives in these areas. These trends have led to the paradigm shifts towards community-based, participatory, and pro-active management strategies. Appropriate strategies for integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods by regenerating nature and culture for facilitating sustainable development of remote ecosystems in the third world are discussed in this chapter.

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Chaos in the Tribune

International Women's Year ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195327687.003.0014 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jocelyn Olcott

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Betty Friedan ◽

Third World Women

As the IWY events neared their conclusion, chaos erupted in the NGO tribune when participants learned that the group representing the United Women of the Tribune, led by Betty Friedan, had attempted to represent the tribune to the intergovernmental conference. The Mexican press attributed the campaign entirely to Friedan, describing the group she “commands” as composed primarily of US women who sought to subordinate the more political concerns that preoccupied Third World women to the “secondary issues” that interested US women. A planned lunchtime forum for the United Women turned into a fracas that generated one of IWY’s most widely circulated images: an AP photograph of two women fighting over a microphone.

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