TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parpart,Jane L.
AU  - Rai,Shirin
AU  - Staudt,Kathleen A.
ED  - University of Warwick.
TI  - Rethinking empowerment: gender and development in a global/local world 
T2  - Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation
SN  - 9780203295885
AV  - HQ1240.5.D44 R47 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Women in development
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women's rights
N1  - At foot of title: Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - '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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