Development

, Volume 53, Issue 2, pp 222–226 | Cite as

Communicating Empowerment: Countering the cardboard woman

  • Tessa Lewin
Dialogue
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Abstract

Tessa Lewin draws on the work done by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research and Communications Consortium from 2007 to date. She explores both the broad approach to communicating empowerment and highlights the work of various projects undertaken.

Keywords

feminism video image representation vision stereotype media 
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  • Tessa Lewin

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