Townsend, Janet, Alberti, Pilar, Mercado, Marta, Rowlands, Jo, Rowlands, Zapata
Description
A major re-evaluation of ideas about power, this book sheds new light on empowerment by exploring and celebrating the achievements of rural Mexican wo
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men. The authors demonstrate how it is often poor women in poor countries who are celebrating new powers and changing their own lives. They deal with power in everyday terms: how power is gained or lost through working with others; how women’s lives are defined or constrained by the power of the state, family or religion; how self-empowerment can transform personal relations; and the effects of power conferred from without by NGOs and/or the international development community.
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Women in development
WOMEN_MEXICO
Reading Moods
Humorous & Light
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Publishing Info
Publisher
Zed Books
Month-Year
Mar, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9781856498043
ISBN-10: 1856498042
Language
English
No. of Pages
224
Format
Paperback
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