Patrons of Women
Berghahn Books, 2011
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Assuming 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 bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a “development expert,” she demonstrates how the professed goal of “women’s empowerment” is a pretext for promoting the interests of local elites. She demonstrates how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources.
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Patrons of Women
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hertzog, Esther |
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Veröffentlichung: | Berghahn Books, 2011 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-1-78920-641-8 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctt9qd6nt |
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