Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

Rai, S M

ISBN 10: 0415277698 / ISBN 13: 9780415277693

Published by Routledge, 2006

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & highlighter markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780415277693.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415277698
• ISBN 13: 9780415277693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Poor
• Weight: 650 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that empowerment is both a process and an outcome. Moreover, the book warns that an obsession with measurement rather than process can undermine efforts to foster transformative and empowering outcomes. It concludes that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment. Only then will the term and its advocates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.

About the Author

Jane L. Parpart Professor of History, International Development Studies and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. Shirin M. Rai Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. Kathleen Staudt Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.