Women and Power

📖 The Scoop

Extrait de la couverture : "A major re-evaluation of ideas about power, this book throws new light on empowerment by showing how women can and do take power into and over their own lives. In exploring and celebrating the achievements of rural Mexican women, the authors demonstrate how it is often poor women in poor countries who are celebrating new powers and changing their own lives rather than the more obvious beneficiaries of women's liberation in the North. They deal with power in everyday terms : how power is gained or lost through working with others in, for example, income-generating projects ; 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 NGOs and/or the international development community. All these examples are set against writings on women's self-empowerment - from India to Peru. This book puts the power back into "development", for activists, for workers in non-governement organiuations and for women's studies, in rich as well as poor countries. It is also an excellent introduction to the empowerment debate, particularly within WID and GAD, and to theories of both development and power."

Genre: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory (fancy, right?)