ISBN:
0415277698
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 250 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge / Warwick studies in globalisation 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Empowerment : Gender and Development in a Global/Local World
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Women in development
;
Women Social conditions
Abstract:
'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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and development in a global/local world; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Theory and praxis; 1 Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development: An introduction; Empowerment and power; Empowerment, power and development; Empowerment, gender and development; Empowerment: local, national and global; Conclusion; 2 Education as a means for empowering women; Revisiting the concept of empowerment; Empowerment within formal schooling; Empowerment among adult women; Learning processes in the empowerment of adult women
Description / Table of Contents:
The contributions of informal learningCombining the cognitive and the economic dimensions of empowerment; Institutional development and support; Conclusion; Part II Women's empowerment in a global world; 3 Envisaging power in Philippine migration: The Janus effect; Migrants, time and local spaces; Empowerment and 'the local'; Gender in Philippine labour migration; Reading power in migration; Agency, class and the cultural politics of leaving; Contingent sojourns; Empowerment dialectics; 4 Women's rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates: Toward empowerment?
Description / Table of Contents:
CEDAW: a tool for women's empowerment?'Complementarity' of rights: a 'Muslim' view of the norm of non-discrimination and equality; Conclusion; 5 Feminizing cyberspace: Rethinking technoagency; Introduction; Cyberspace, boundaries and agency; Women and cyberpolitics; Cyber possibilities and development; Conclusion; Part III The nation state, politics and women's empowerment; 6 Engaging politics: Beyond official empowerment discourse; Empowerment terminology; A multilateral case; Empowerment is political; Policy priorities: little dent on gender relations
Description / Table of Contents:
Democratic spaces: contexts of democracy, peace and/or redistribution?International technical assistance and 'democracies'; Bring politics in with women and gender equality agendas; Empowerment in US bipartisan discourse: from global to local; Concluding implications; 7 Movements, states and empowerment: women's mobilization in Chile and Turkey; Introduction; Gender ideologies, states and women's movements; The emergence and evolution of the Chilean women's movement; The emergence and evolution of the women's movement in post-1980 Turkey; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Political representation, democratic institutions and women's empowerment: The quota debate in IndiaIntroduction; The Indian experiments with quotas; Women's interests, women representatives; 'Social backwardness' and quota politics; The arguments for quotas; The arguments against; Caste, class, gender: dilemmas for feminisms; Conclusion; 9 Gender, production and access to land: the case for female peasants in India; Introduction; 'Personal laws' in India and the Hindu Succession Act 1956; Models, roles and identities; Women's work, contribution and access to land
Description / Table of Contents:
Land to the tiller: women and land reforms in India
Note:
"Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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