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9781350220096
Series Statement:
Feminisms and development
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Machine generated contents note:1.Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt /Mulki Al Sharmani --2.Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? /Ana Alice Alcantara Costa --3.Advancing Women's Empowerment or Rolling Back the Gains? Peace Building in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone /Hussaina J. Abdullah --4.Education: Pathway to Empowerment for Ghanaian Women? /Akosua K. Darkwah --5.Paid Work as a Pathway of Empowerment: Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme /Ayesha Khan --6.Steady Money, State Support and Respect Can Equal Women's Empowerment in Egypt /Hania Sholkamy --7.Changing Representations of Women in Ghanaian Popular Music /Awo Mana Asiedu --8.Subversively Accommodating: Feminist Bureaucrats and Gender Mainstreaming /Rosalind Eyben --9.Reciprocity, Distancing and Opportunistic Overtures: Women's Organizations Negotiating Legitimacy and Space in Bangladesh /Maheen Sultan --10.Empowerment as Resistance: Conceptualizing Palestinian Women's Empowerment /Eileen Kuttab --11.Crossroads of Empowerment: The Organization of Women Domestic Workers in Brazil /Terezinha Goncalves --12.Women's Dars and the Limitations of Desire: The Pakistan Case /Neelam Hussain --13.The Power of Relationships: Money, Love and Solidarity in a Landless Women's Organization in Rural Bangladesh /Lopita Huq --14.Women Watching Television: Surfing between Fantasy and Reality /Samia Afroz Rahim --15.Family, Households and Women's Empowerment through the Generations in Bahia, Brazil: Continuities or Change? /Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg.
Content:
The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights, remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances, and it provides an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations
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ISBN 9781780325842
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Feminisms, empowerment and development ISBN 9781780325842
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350220096
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