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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973004803321

Autore

Sharma Shubhra

Titolo

"Neoliberalization" as Betrayal : State, Feminism, and a Women's Education Program in India / / by S. Sharma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

9786613158703

9781283158701

1283158701

9780230320352

023032035X

9780230119208

0230119204

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Comparative Feminist Studies, , 2752-3217

Disciplina

379.2/60954

379.260954

Soggetti

Ethnology

Sex

Culture

Anthropology

Sociology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Gender Studies

Sociology of Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One "Education for Women's Equality and Empowerment":The Mahila Samakhya Program (MS) (1989); Two "Getting There, Being There": Using Ethnography,Investigating Ethnography in Chitrakoot and Delhi; Three "When I Say We, I Don't Mean Me": Neoliberal Bureaucracy and Techniques of National Governance; Four "We Have to Move from Conceptualization to



Operationalization": (Un)Easy Relationships between State and Feminism

Five "Empowerment Was Never Conceptualized as Entitlement": Problems in Operationalizing a"Feminist" ProgramSix "Empowerment Should Be Collective": Four"Truth-Tales"; Appendix I: Mahila Samakhya Program Structural Hierarchy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.