04239nam 2200697 450 991052635970332120210311111955.01-350-22009-41-78032-586-X1-78032-585-110.5040/9781350220096(CKB)2670000000546705(EBL)1696471(SSID)ssj0001190575(PQKBManifestationID)11669686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001190575(PQKBWorkID)11201477(PQKB)11427180(MiAaPQ)EBC1696471(Au-PeEL)EBL1696471(CaPaEBR)ebr10842786(CaONFJC)MIL579053(OCoLC)872632603(OCoLC)872565895(CaBNVSL)9781350220096(EXLCZ)99267000000054670520210311h20212014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFeminisms, empowerment and development changing women's lives /edited by Andrea Cornwall and Jenny EdwardsLondon, England :Zed Books,2014.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (346 p.)Feminisms and developmentDescription based upon print version of record.1-78032-583-5 1-78032-584-3 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Machine generated contents note:1.Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt /Mulki Al Sharmani --2.Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? /Ana Alice Alcantara Costa --3.Advancing Women's Empowerment or Rolling Back the Gains? Peace Building in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone /Hussaina J. Abdullah --4.Education: Pathway to Empowerment for Ghanaian Women? /Akosua K. Darkwah --5.Paid Work as a Pathway of Empowerment: Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme /Ayesha Khan --6.Steady Money, State Support and Respect Can Equal Women's Empowerment in Egypt /Hania Sholkamy --7.Changing Representations of Women in Ghanaian Popular Music /Awo Mana Asiedu --8.Subversively Accommodating: Feminist Bureaucrats and Gender Mainstreaming /Rosalind Eyben --9.Reciprocity, Distancing and Opportunistic Overtures: Women's Organizations Negotiating Legitimacy and Space in Bangladesh /Maheen Sultan --10.Empowerment as Resistance: Conceptualizing Palestinian Women's Empowerment /Eileen Kuttab --11.Crossroads of Empowerment: The Organization of Women Domestic Workers in Brazil /Terezinha Goncalves --12.Women's Dars and the Limitations of Desire: The Pakistan Case /Neelam Hussain --13.The Power of Relationships: Money, Love and Solidarity in a Landless Women's Organization in Rural Bangladesh /Lopita Huq --14.Women Watching Television: Surfing between Fantasy and Reality /Samia Afroz Rahim --15.Family, Households and Women's Empowerment through the Generations in Bahia, Brazil: Continuities or Change? /Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg.The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights, remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances, and it provides an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations.Feminisms and development.FeminismPower (Social sciences)Development studiesbicsscElectronic books.Feminism.Power (Social sciences)Development studies305.42Cornwall Andrea1963-Edwards Jenny1949-NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910526359703321Feminisms, empowerment and development2656746UNINA