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Product Specifications
Book Summary
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 bureaucratic organizations and gender
studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a
practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of
"women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals
and the interests of local elites. She shows how a project intended to benefit
women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills, fails to provide
them with any of the promised resources.
ISBN-13
9781845457686
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publishing Date
2011-05-27
Total Pages
278
Patrons Of Women: Literacy Projects And Gender Development In Rural Nepal
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 bureaucratic organizations and gender
studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a
practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of
"women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals
and the interests of local elites. She shows how a project intended to benefit
women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills, fails to provide
them with any of the promised resources.