Rethinking empowerment
Subtitle: gender and development in a global/local world
By: edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai and Kathleen Staudt.
Contributors: Parpart, Jane L.; Rai, Shirin.; Staudt, Kathleen A.; University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
Series: Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Women in development -- Developing countries.; Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.; Women's rights -- Developing countries.
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
At foot of title: Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Theory and praxis: Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development : an introduction / Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai and Kathleen Staudt; title: Education as a means for empowering women / Nelly p. Stromquist; title: pt. 2. Women's empowerment in a global world: Envisaging power in Philippine migration : the Janus effect / Pauline Gardiner Barber; title: Women's rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates : toward empowerment / Shaheen Sardar Ali; title: Feminizing cyberspace : rethinking technoagency / Gillian Youngs; title: pt. 3. The nation state, politics and women's empowerment: Engaging politics : beyond official empowerment discourse / Kathleen Staudt; title: Movements, states and empowerment : women's mobilization in Chile and Turkey / Marella Bodur and Susan Franceschet; title: Political representation, democratic institutions and women's empowerment : the quota debate in India / Shirin M. Rai; title: Gender, production and access to land : the case for female peasants in India / Reena Patel; title: pt. 4. The local/global, development and women's empowerment: Rethinking participatory empowerment, gender and development : the PRA approach / Jane L. Parpart; title: The disciplinary power of micro credit : examples from Kenya and Cameroon / Josephine Lairap-Fonderson; title: Development, demographic and feminist agendas : depoliticizing empowerment in a Tanzanian family planning project / Lisa Ann Riche; title: Informal politics, grassroots NGOs and women's empowerment in the slums of Bombay / Vandana Desai; title: pt. 5. Conclusion: Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development / Kathleen Staudt, Shirin M. Rai and Jane L. Parpart.