Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The vulnerable patron: playing the role of a foreign gender consultant -- Instrumental patronage: Leon and Hanna -- Marginalizing economic activities, profiting from literacy classes -- The role of economic activities in negotiating consent -- The seminar: the successful failure of the women's empowerment project -- Gender and the phantom budget. |
Summary |
Assuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a "Gender Activities Project" within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of. |
Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
Literacy programs -- Nepal.
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Literacy programs. |
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Nepal. |
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Rural women -- Nepal -- Social conditions.
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Rural women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women in rural development -- Nepal.
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Women in rural development. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- Nepal.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hertzog, Esther. Patrons of women. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 (DLC) 2011000952 |
ISBN |
9781845459857 (electronic book) |
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1845459857 (electronic book) |
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1845457684 |
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9781845457686 |
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9781845457686 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1299777236 |
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9781299777231 |
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