Power and the Sustainable Development Goals: a feminist analysis

This article offers a power analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and outcomes, from a feminist perspective. Many see, in the SDGs, several opportunities for progress on gender equality and women's rights, if not for transformation. Yet there are many reasons for sceptici...

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Published inGender and development Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 9 - 23
Main Author Esquivel, Valeria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
empowerment
Equality
Females
Feminism
gender
Gender inequality
growth
human rights
justice
Power
Power structure
Rights
Sexes
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Transformation
Womens rights
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1364-9221
DOI10.1080/13552074.2016.1147872

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Abstract This article offers a power analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and outcomes, from a feminist perspective. Many see, in the SDGs, several opportunities for progress on gender equality and women's rights, if not for transformation. Yet there are many reasons for scepticism, as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's vision is not always met with strong enough language, clear policies or funding provisions. Realising the 'transformative potential' of the Agenda in the decade and a half to come will be far from a technocratic exercise - and this is particularly true for the full realisation of women's rights. A first step is to consider how structural power relations are challenged or reinforced in the Agenda and the SDGs, and in plans for their implementation and resourcing.
AbstractList This article offers a power analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and outcomes, from a feminist perspective. Many see, in the SDGs, several opportunities for progress on gender equality and women's rights, if not for transformation. Yet there are many reasons for scepticism, as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's vision is not always met with strong enough language, clear policies or funding provisions. Realising the 'transformative potential' of the Agenda in the decade and a half to come will be far from a technocratic exercise - and this is particularly true for the full realisation of women's rights. A first step is to consider how structural power relations are challenged or reinforced in the Agenda and the SDGs, and in plans for their implementation and resourcing.
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growth
human rights
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Power
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Rights
Sexes
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Transformation
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