<p><strong>"A brave intervention in the sadly under-theorized arena of knowledge diffusion in international development! Debunking myths about the 'Southern Women’s NGO' as an agent for diffusing (disembedded) information for development, Narayanaswamy underscores how intersectional power shapes the movement and work of knowledge. The book calls for facilitating agency through <i>listening</i> in dialogic context-sensitive conversations."</strong> <em>- Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA</em></p><p><strong>"In this important book, Lata Narayanaswamy offers a hugely impressive analysis of gender, power and knowledge in international development. This exceptionally well written book critically explodes some of the comfortable assumptions made about promoting Southern voices, translating material, working with the ‘grassroots’ and ensuring user-friendly ICT access for facilitating improved development outcomes."</strong> - <em>Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK</em></p><p><strong><em>"</em><em>Gender, Power and Knowledge Development</em> is based on the author’s doctoral research, shining a critical light both on how the Knowledge for Development (K4D) paradigm set out in the World Bank’s 1998 World Development Report defined such knowledge, and on how it has since been enthusiastically promoted in permutations of K4D – </strong><strong>such as ICT for Development (ICT4D), Communication for Development (C4D), and Knowledge Management for Development (KMDev). The book’s origins ensure that the author’</strong><strong>s approach is both thoroughly researched and forensic in its detail, and </strong><strong>its critical contribution is to disrupt lazy assumptions that technical solutions laced with good intentions will ever bring about the kinds of structural changes required to achieve and sustain gender equality." - </strong><em>Deborah Eade, Freelance writer and editor, France</em></p>