Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World (Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation, 3)

'rethinking Empowerment' Looks At The Changing Role Of Women In Developing Countries And Rejects The Established Notion That Empowerment In Development Is Best Understood And Pursued At A Local/global Level. Edited By Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai And Kathleen Staudt. At Foot Of Title: Centre For The Study Of Globalisation And Regionalisation. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. pt. 1. Theory and praxis: Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development : an introduction / Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai and Kathleen Staudt Education as a means for empowering women / Nelly p. Stromquist pt. 2. Women's empowerment in a global world: Envisaging power in Philippine migration : the Janus effect / Pauline Gardiner Barber Women's rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates : toward empowerment / Shaheen Sardar Ali Feminizing cyberspace : rethinking technoagency / Gillian Youngs pt. 3. The nation state, politics and women's empowerment: Engaging politics : beyond official empowerment discourse / Kathleen Staudt Movements, states and empowerment : women's mobilization in Chile and Turkey / Marella Bodur and Susan Franceschet Political representation, democratic institutions and women's empowerment : the quota debate in India / Shirin M. Rai Gender, production and access to land : the case for female peasants in India / Reena Patel pt. 4. The local/global, development and women's empowerment: Rethinking participatory empowerment, gender and development : the PRA approach / Jane L. Parpart The disciplinary power of micro credit : examples from Kenya and Cameroon / Josephine Lairap-Fonderson Development, demographic and feminist agendas : depoliticizing empowerment in a Tanzanian family planning project / Lisa Ann Riche Informal politics, grassroots NGOs and women's empowerment in the slums of Bombay / Vandana Desai pt. 5. Conclusion: Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development / Kathleen Staudt, Shirin M. Rai and Jane L. Parpart. Extrait du résumé : "Rethinking empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and rejects the established notion that empowerment is best understood and pursued at a local level. It calls for a new approach, one that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and empowerment and recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts. It must both pay attention to institutionnal structures and politics and acknowledge 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 advacates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world." 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. Empowerment has become a popular, largely unquestioned 'good' aspired to by such diverse and contradictory institutions as the World Bank, Oxfam and many more radical non-government organizations (NGOs).