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Women and Empowerment

Illustrations from the Third World

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Haleh Afshar

    1. University of York, UK

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Women and Empowerment — Some Illustrative Studies

    • Haleh Afshar
    Pages 1-10

  3. A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development

    • Jo Rowlands
    Pages 11-34

  4. Fruits of Burden–The Organisation of Women Temporary Workers in Chilean Agribusiness

    • Stephanie Barrientos
    Pages 35-56

  5. Gender and Rural-Urban Migration in China

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 57-66

  6. The Grameen Bank Experiment: Empowerment of Women through Credit

    • Lutfun N. Khan Osmani
    Pages 67-85

  7. Localities of Power: Gender, Parties and Democracy in Chile and Brazil

    • Fiona Macaulay
    Pages 86-109

  8. The Syrian Woman: Reality and Aspiration

    • Leila Djabari
    Pages 110-116

  9. ‘Disempowerment’ and the Politics of Civil Liberties for Iranian Women

    • Haleh Afshar
    Pages 117-133

  10. Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Research Project in India

    • Purna Sen
    Pages 134-154

  11. Engendering the Analysis of Conflict: A Southern Perspective

    • Donna Pankhurst, Jenny Pearce
    Pages 155-163

  12. Women Dying, Women Working: Disempowerment in British India

    • Jocelyn Kynch, Maureen Sibbons
    Pages 164-188

  13. Assessing the Impact: NGOs and Empowerment

    • Elsa L. Dawson
    Pages 189-209

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 210-214
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The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? Do political parties facilitate or do they channel energies away from empowerment? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.

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  • University of York, UK

    Haleh Afshar

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