Barwa, S and Rai, S. M. (2003) 'Knowledge and/as power: a feminist critique of trade related intellectual property rights', Gender, technology and development, 7 (1): 91-113. Read here

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Abstract

The article attempts to define a research agenda that will explore the relationship amongst gender, knowledge, innovation and property rights against the backdrop of the recent processes of market liberalisation and transformation of the relationship between states and the global economy. It suggests that Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights are institutionalising the historically exclusionary bounded definitions of what counts as knowledge and thus denying the role of millions of women in the production of knowledge over time. It concludes that this property regime challenges women to engage in the struggle over meanings of knowledge, invention and property.

 

 

 

 

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