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Women and empowerment : illustrations from the Third World
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- Creator
- edited by Haleh Afshar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xi, 214 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780333719732, 0333719735
- OCLC
- ocm42440346
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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