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.
Similar content being viewed by others
Notes
More information on this can be found in Akofa Anyidoho's 2008 article, http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/news/news-at-ids-representations-of-women-in-ghanaian-popular-music.
All these statistics are from the World Association for Christian Communication's 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project Report ‘Who makes the News’.
Figures are from the 2009 Blogher survey on ‘Women and Social Media’.
References
Batliwala, Srilatha (2007) ‘Putting Power back into Empowerment’, Article for Open Democracy. July.
Duncombe, Stephen (2007) Dream: Re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy, New York: The New Press.
Feminist Technology Exchange (2008). http://ftx.apcwomen.org/.
Hooks, Bell (1994) Outlaw Culture, New York: Routledge.
Infoactivism Camp (2009). www.tacticaltech.org/events/infoactivismcamp.
Lakoff, George (2004) Don’t Think of an Elephant, Vermont: Chelsea Green.
McRobbie, Angela (2009) The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, culture and social change, London: Sage.
Petkova, Mariya (2010) ‘3G: Exploring generational difference in Egyptian women's lives’, January 29, Daily News Egypt.
Quarry, Wendy and Ricardo Ramirez (2009) Communication for Another Development, London: Zed Books.
Win, Everjoice (2007) ‘Not Very Poor, Powerless or Pregnant: The African woman forgotten by development’, in Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Feminisms in Development, London: Zed Books.
Additional information
Explores new multimedia approaches to communicating empowerment and gender
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Lewin, T. Communicating Empowerment: Countering the cardboard woman. Development 53, 222–226 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.25
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.25