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1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; What this book is about; Guide to the book; What should be given to the women?; Finding out what women want; Poor women, enterprising women and women entrepreneurs: the problem with concepts; More concepts; Perceptions of desirability and feasibility; Women, gender and the meaning of success; 2 Handicapped by poverty and gender: The non-enterprising women; Are there non-enterprising, poor women?; Poverty drains body and mind; Female gender reinforces negative perceptions |
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Outsiders with time to spare: The negative-despondent womanIf that is written in my fate"": The case of Moti B.; The negative-despondent woman: Determinants of a type; Wants to be told: The positive-uncertain woman; 'I could keep a cow"": The case of Santilata D.; What influences the positive-uncertain woman?; 3 ""In times of need women get busy"":The enterprising women; What do they do, the enterprising women?; A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush"": The negative-pragmatic woman; In this work I have practice"": The story of Kuri B |
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Typical features of the negative-pragmatic womanGetting down to business"": The positive-pragmatic woman; A crop, a shop, a job: The story of Kasai J.; Typical features of the positive-pragmatic woman; Becoming empowered: The positive-ambitious woman; I would like to employ other women"": The story of T. Manimala; Typical features of the positive-ambitious woman; 4 Changing perceptions of enterprise; Two sets of learning; Moving out of despondency; Lession 1: There must be room for charity; Lesson 2: Despondent women need the support of a women's group; Becoming certain |
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Lesson 3: Show women the strength of their genderLesson 4: Women need child-care services; Lesson 5: Teach women a 'marketable'skill; Gaining security; Lesson 6: Wage-earning women need 'trade unions'; Becoming ambitious; Lesson 7: Rural women need land; Lesson 8: Poor women need employment opportunities; From ambition to success; Lesson 9: Success comes with experience and exposure; 5 ""Now that our eyes are opening; Some afterthoughts about women's empowerment; Appendices:; 1 List of the women presented in this book; 2 Currency conversions; 3 Bibliography |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, this volume takes an international approach to women's evolving perspectives on self-employment, with a particular focus on women in India. Author Uschi Kraus-Harper draws on ten years of research and interviews, visits and observations, gathering women's stories from around the world. This book deeply explores women's situations, empowerment, changing perceptions of enterprise, the effects of poverty and gender and what success really means. It is about poor women and their relation to self-employment. It is also about why change has come to some women and not to others |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed December 28, 2018) |
| Subject |
Self-employed women -- India -- Case studies
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Self-employed women -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
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Self-employed women
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Developing countries
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0429453809 |
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9780429453809 |
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042984381X |
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9780429843815 |
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9780429843808 |
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0429843801 |
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9780429843792 |
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0429843798 |
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