Reversed Realities at 30 – reproductive rights and the right-wing backlash
Kabeer, N.
(3 April 2025)
Reversed Realities at 30 – reproductive rights and the right-wing backlash.
LSE Review of Books.
(3 April 2025)
Reversed Realities at 30 – reproductive rights and the right-wing backlash.
LSE Review of Books.
Abstract
2024 marked the 30th publication anniversary of Naila Kabeer‘s groundbreaking book, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which exposed deeply ingrained gender biases in development theory and policy. In this essay, she reflects on how the book’s discussions on the gendered division of unpaid labour, fertility rates and the struggle for reproductive rights resonates today. Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. Naila Kabeer. Verso Books. 1994.