@article{ref1,
title="Gender, development and urban social change: Women's community action in global cities",
journal="World development",
year="1997",
author="Lind, Amy",
volume="25",
number="8",
pages="1205-1223",
abstract="This article addresses the gender dimensions of women's community action in global cities. It focuses on two types of women's organizations (food provision and anti-violence) and draws out their implications for community and national development frameworks in the context of economic restructuring and urban poverty. The article undertakes three tasks: First, it rethinks frameworks of development and urban social change from a gender perspective. Second, it analyzes the ways in which local women's organizations have acted proactively--rather than merely reactively--to processes of urban restructuring. Third, it proposes an approach in which women's informal political and economic participation is better accounted for in national development frameworks and related community development initiatives.<p />",
language="",
issn="0305-750X",
doi="10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00033-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00033-8"
}