Rethinking Empowerment (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Development in a Global/Local World
Redaktion: Parpart, Jane L.; Staudt, Kathleen A.; Rai, Shirin M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that empowerment is both a process and an outcome. Moreover, the book warns that an obsession with measurement rather than process can undermine efforts to foster transformative and empowering outcomes. It concludes that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment. Only then will the term and its advocates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134472123
• Artikelnr.: 38267652

Autorenporträt

Jane L. Parpart Professor of History, International Development Studies and Women's Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. Shirin M. Rai Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. Kathleen Staudt Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Theory and praxis; Chapter 1 Rethinking em(power)ment
gender and development
Jane L. ParPart
Shirin M. Rai
Kathleen Staudt; Chapter 2 Education as a means for empowering women
Nelly P. Stromquist; Part II Women's empowerment in a global world; Chapter 3 Envisaging power in Philippine migration
Pauline Gardiner Barber; Chapter 4 Women's rights
CEDAW and internationalhuman rights debates
Shaheen Sardar Ali; Chapter 5 Feminizing cyberspace
gillian youngs; Part III The nation state
politics and women's empowerment; Chapter 6 Engaging politics
Kathleen Staudt; Chapter 7 Movements
states and empowerment
Marella Bodur
Susan Franceschet; Chapter 8 Political representation
democratic institutions and women's empowerment The quota debate in India1
Shirin M. Rai; Chapter 9 Gender
production and access to land
Reena Patel; Part IV The local/global
development and women's empowerment; Chapter 10 Rethinking Part icipatory empowerment
gender and development
Jane L. ParPart ; Chapter 11 The disciplinary power of micro credit
Josephine Lairap-Fonderson; Chapter 12 Development
demographic and feminist agendas
Lisa Ann Richey; Chapter 13 Informal politics
grassroots NGOS and women's empowerment in the slums of Bombay
Vandana Desai; Part V Conclusion; Chapter 14 Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment
gender and development
Kathleen Staudt
Shirin M. Rai
Jane L. ParPart ;