Format:
1 online resource (220 pages)
ISBN:
9780739137376
Content:
This accessible, richly textured ethnography illuminates the cultural shaping of development and modernity in the context of a remarkable Gandhian program for women and girls that, since 1946, has engaged with issues of sustainability, gender equity, and poverty in Himalayan India. It blends memories, stories and historical research to analyze how rural women have drawn inspiration, in sometimes surprising ways, from Gandhi, as they have sought to confront new environmental and social challenges.
Content:
Intro -- Educating Activists -- Educating Activists -- Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians -- Rebecca M. Klenk -- LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of -- ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham Boulder New York Toronto Plymouth, UK -- 2010038294 -- For inspiration across generations -- Dedicated to my mother, Anne, and my son, Aaron, and in memory of my father, Eugene -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- -Vimla Behn, Lakshmi Ashram graduate -- I. "A HORRIBLE FORM" -- II. THEORIZING DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL PROCESS -- III. DEVELOPMENT IN A CONTEXT: THE UTTARAKHAND HIMALAYA -- IV. CRAFTING SELVES -- V. FEMINISM, COMPLICITY, AND FIELDWORK -- VI. BECOMING DEVELOPED -- VII. INTERCONNECTED HISTORIES -- NOTES -- Part I -- Developed Women -- Lakshmi Ashram Gate. Photograph by Rebecca Klenk, 2007. -- We will found a new age. -Sarala Devi, Sryoday -- Chapter 1 -- Educating Modern Gandhians Lakshmi Ashram and Its Mission -- -M. K. Gandhi, Harijan, 1940 -- -Sarala Devi, Sryoday, Number 1, 19481 -- I. "STRENGTH COMES UP FROM INSIDE" -- II. EDUCATION, COLONIALISM, AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA -- III. SARALA DEVI, SARVODAYA, AND LAKSHMI ASHRAM -- IV. LAKSHMI ASHRAM'S CHANGING ROLES -- V. "DIFFICULT WORK" -- VI. MODERN GANDHIANS -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 -- "Who Is the Developed Woman?" -- -Participant, rural women's training camp, Kumaon, India -- -Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development -- I. THE QUESTION -- II. DEVELOPMENT AS DISCOURSE -- III. DEVELOPMENT, BACKWARDNESS AND WOMEN AT LAKSHMI ASHRAM -- IV. CONTENTIOUS NEGOTIATIONS -- V. HIRA BEHN -- VI. DEVELOPED WOMEN -- NOTES -- Part II -- Sarala Devi's Daughters -- Sarala Devi's photograph glimpsed between Radha Behn and Kanti Behn, as they participate in honoring the anniversary of her death. Photograph by Rebecca Klenk, 2007. -- -M. K. Gandhi, Towards a New Education.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780739137352
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780739137352
Language:
English
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