Titlebook: Women and Empowerment; Illustrations from t Haleh Afshar (Reader in Politics) Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

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A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Developmennference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and at the World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994. Current use of the word remains ill-defined, however, in the development context: its users tend to assume that the appropriate meaning will be understood without being explained. It is used by people repre

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Gender and Rural-Urban Migration in China, from villages where they are employed — or underemployed — in agriculture, to cities, towns, or other rural areas, where they hope they will find better economic opportunities. Migration has allowed the supply of cheap labour to remain buoyant in China’s industrialising coastal regions, despite the

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The Grameen Bank Experiment: Empowerment of Women through Credit,sion-making processes on an equal footing with men, either within the household or in the society at large. This lack of empowerment is manifested, ., in the relative weakness of their bargaining power in situations characterised by ‘co-operative conflict’, i.e. situations in which it is in the inte

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Localities of Power: Gender, Parties and Democracy in Chile and Brazil,r political and economic processes, such as decentralisation and neo-liberalism, in dis/empowering women as citizens and autonomous agents? How do political actors such as parties state bureaucrats and women’s movements, with their discrete ideologies, organisational practices and public policy dema

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Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Research Project in India,ndered disadvantage. However, there is also a complex interrelationship of social, economic and legal practices and beliefs which oppresses women. The sex ratio has a masculine bias, female labour-force participation is low, female literacy and educational attainment are low, and women do not experi

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Engendering the Analysis of Conflict: A Southern Perspective,elations, as the other chapters in the volume amply demonstrate. Yet such a conceptualisation and analysis is still rarely located within other concerns of social science. The . of a discipline which is required by the effective integration of gender-aware analyses is all too slow and partial, albei

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