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Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
by Esther Hertzog (Author),
Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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.
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9789382264613
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages 278