Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

• Tác giả: Esther Hertzog
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1789206418
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 379.24095496 Specific policy issues in public education
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237425
• Chủ đề: 1. Gender studies: women

Tóm tắt

Assuming 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 "development expert," she demonstrates how the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting the interests of local elites. She demonstrates how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources.