This book explores the contested relationship between feminisms and development. It reflects on the uneasy gains made by feminist efforts to bring 'gender' into development, and on the challenges for reasserting feminist engagement with development as a political project.

The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement.

Their work is significant for GAD (Gender and Development) practitioners and should be a mandatory read.