Rethinking empowerment : Gender and development in a global/local world

By:

Parpart, Jane L

Contributor(s):

Rai Shirin M Staudt Kathleen

Publication details: London Routledge 2002Description: 250pISBN:

9780415277693

Subject(s):

1. Women In Development - Developing Countries2. Women - Developing Countries - Social Conditions3. Women's Rights

DDC classification:

305.420000 PAR

Contents:

Table of contents Contributors; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Section I: Theory and Praxis; 1. Rethinking empowerment, Gender and Development: An Introduction; 2. Education as a Means for Empowering Women; Section II: Women's Empowerment in a Global World; 3. Envisaging Power in Philippine Migration: The Janus Effect; 4. Women's Rights, CEDAW and International Human Rights Debates: Toward Empowerment?; 5. Feminizing Cyberspace: Rethinking Technoagency; Section III: The Nation State, Politics and Women's Empowerment; 6. Engaging Politics: Beyond Official Empowerment Discourse; 7. Movements, States and Empowerment: Women's Mobilization in Chile and Turkey; 8. Political Representation, Democratic Institutions and Women's Empowerment: The Quota Debate in India; 9. Gender, Production and Access to Land: The case for Female Peasants in India; Section IV: The Local/Global, Development and Women's empowerment; 10. Rethinking Participatory Empowerment, Gender and Development: The PRA Approach; 11. The Disciplinary Power of Micro Credit: Examples from Kenya and Cameroon; 12. Development, Demographic, and Feminist Agendas: Depoliticising empowerment in a Tanzanian Family Planning Project; 13. Informal Politics, Grassroots NGOs and Women's Empowerment in the Slums of Bombay

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Table of contents
Contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Acronyms;
Section I: Theory and Praxis;
1. Rethinking empowerment, Gender and Development: An Introduction;
2. Education as a Means for Empowering Women;
Section II: Women's Empowerment in a Global World;
3. Envisaging Power in Philippine Migration: The Janus Effect;
4. Women's Rights, CEDAW and International Human Rights Debates: Toward Empowerment?;
5. Feminizing Cyberspace: Rethinking Technoagency;
Section III: The Nation State, Politics and Women's Empowerment;
6. Engaging Politics: Beyond Official Empowerment Discourse;
7. Movements, States and Empowerment: Women's Mobilization in Chile and Turkey;
8. Political Representation, Democratic Institutions and Women's Empowerment: The Quota Debate in India;
9. Gender, Production and Access to Land: The case for Female Peasants in India;
Section IV: The Local/Global, Development and Women's empowerment;
10. Rethinking Participatory Empowerment, Gender and Development: The PRA Approach;
11. The Disciplinary Power of Micro Credit: Examples from Kenya and Cameroon;
12. Development, Demographic, and Feminist Agendas: Depoliticising empowerment in a Tanzanian Family Planning Project;
13. Informal Politics, Grassroots NGOs and Women's Empowerment in the Slums of Bombay

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