Patrons of women : literacy projects and gender development in rural Nepal /

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Assuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a "Gender Activities Project" within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureau...

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Hlavní autor: Hertzog, Esther
Médium: Printed Book
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: New York : Cambridge University Press India Pvt Ltd. c2011.
Témata:
Literacy programs > Nepal.
Rural women > Nepal > Social conditions.
Women in rural development > Nepal.
Sex discrimination against women > Nepal.
Obsah:
  • The vulnerable patron: playing the role of a foreign gender consultant
  • Instrumental patronage: Leon and Hanna
  • Marginalizing economic activities, profiting from literacy classes
  • The role of economic activities in negotiating consent
  • The seminar: the successful failure of the women's empowerment project
  • Gender and the phantom budget.

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