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Title Women and empowerment : illustrations from the Third World / edited by Haleh Afshar
Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998

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Description xi, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Series Women's studies at York series
Women's studies at York series.
Contents Introduction: Women and Empowerment - Some Illustrative Studies / Haleh Afshar -- 1. A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development / Jo Rowlands -- 2. Fruits of Burden: The Organisation of Women Temporary Workers in Chilean Agribusiness / Stephanie Barrientos -- 3. Gender and Rural - Urban Migration in China / Delia Davin -- 4. The Grameen Bank Experiment: Empowerment of Women through Credit / Lutfun N. Khan Osmani -- 5. Localities of Power: Gender, Parties and Democracy in Chile and Brazil / Fiona Macaulay -- 6. The Syrian Woman: Reality and Aspiration / Leila Djabari -- 7. 'Disempowerment' and the Politics of Civil Liberties for Iranian Women / Haleh Afshar -- 8. Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Research Project in India / Purna Sen -- 9. Engendering the Analysis of Conflict: A Southern Perspective / Donna Pankhurst and Jenny Pearce
10. Women Dying, Women Working: Disempowerment in British India / Jocelyn Kynch and Maureen Sibbons -- 11. Assessing the Impact: NGOs and Empowerment / Elsa Dawson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women in development -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Women -- Government policy -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Women's rights -- Developing countries.
Author Afshar, Haleh, 1944-
LC no. 97014130
ISBN 0312176465
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0333719743