Rethinking empowerment : gender and development in a global/local world /
'Rethinking Empowerment' looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and rejects the established notion that empowerment in development is best understood and pursued at a local/global level.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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Series: | Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Theory and praxis: Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development : an introduction / Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai and Kathleen Staudt
- Education as a means for empowering women / Nelly p. Stromquist
- pt. 2. Women's empowerment in a global world: Envisaging power in Philippine migration : the Janus effect / Pauline Gardiner Barber
- Women's rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates : toward empowerment / Shaheen Sardar Ali
- Feminizing cyberspace : rethinking technoagency / Gillian Youngs
- pt. 3. The nation state, politics and women's empowerment: Engaging politics : beyond official empowerment discourse / Kathleen Staudt
- Movements, states and empowerment : women's mobilization in Chile and Turkey / Marella Bodur and Susan Franceschet
- Political representation, democratic institutions and women's empowerment : the quota debate in India / Shirin M. Rai
- Gender, production and access to land : the case for female peasants in India / Reena Patel
- pt. 4. The local/global, development and women's empowerment: Rethinking participatory empowerment, gender and development : the PRA approach / Jane L. Parpart
- The disciplinary power of micro credit : examples from Kenya and Cameroon / Josephine Lairap-Fonderson
- Development, demographic and feminist agendas : depoliticizing empowerment in a Tanzanian family planning project / Lisa Ann Riche
- Informal politics, grassroots NGOs and women's empowerment in the slums of Bombay / Vandana Desai
- pt. 5. Conclusion: Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development / Kathleen Staudt, Shirin M. Rai and Jane L. Parpart.