Bibliograph

Women and empowerment, illustrations from the Third World, edited by Haleh Afshar

Type

Label

Women and empowerment, illustrations from the Third World, edited by Haleh Afshar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women and empowerment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

36746428

Responsibility statement

edited by Haleh Afshar

Series statement

Women's studies at York series

Sub title

illustrations from the Third World

Table Of Contents

Introduction: women and empowerment--some illustrative studies / Haleh Afshar -- A word of the times, but what does it mean? empowerment in the discourse and practice of development / Jo Rowlands -- Fruits of burden: the organisation of women temporary workers in Chilean agribusiness / Stephanie Barrientos -- Gender and rural-urban migration in China / Delia Davin -- The Grameen bank experiment: empowerment of women through credit / Lutfun N. Khan Osmani -- Localities of power: gender, parties and democracy in Chile and Brazil / Fiona Macauley -- The Syrian woman: reality and aspiration / Leila Djabari -- 'Disempowerment' and the politics of civil liberties for Iranian women / Haleh Afshar -- Violence in intimate relationships: a research project in India / Purna Sen -- Engendering the analysis of conflict: a southern perspective / Donna Pankhurst and Jenny Pearce -- Women dying, women working: disempowerment in British India / Jocelyn Kynch and Maureen Sibbons -- Assessing the impact: NGOs and empowerment / Elsa Dawson

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