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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Parpart, Jane L. (Editor ), Rai, Shirin (Editor ), Staudt, Kathleen A. (Editor )
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edición:First published.
Colección:Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation
Materias:
Mujeres en el desarrollo > Países en desarrollo
Mujeres > Países en desarrollo > Condiciones sociales
Derechos de la mujer > Países en desarrollo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part 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
  • part 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
  • part 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
  • part 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
  • part 5. Conclusion: Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development / Kathleen Staudt, Shirin M. Rai and Jane L. Parpart.

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