Gender Trouble Makers
eBook - ePub

Gender Trouble Makers

Education and Empowerment in Nepal

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Gender Trouble Makers

Education and Empowerment in Nepal

About this book

International development efforts aimed at improving girls' lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it influences the lives of girls and boys. Gender is more commonly conceived by international efforts as characteristics which are ascribed to girls as norms for behaviour.

In particular, the analysis in Gender Trouble Makers focuses on the social constructions of gender and the ways in which gender was reinforced and maintained through a case study in rural Nepal.

In developing countries like Nepal, promoting access to and participation in existing formal education programme is clearly necessary, but it is not, in itself, sufficient to transform gender power relations in the broader society. When gender is properly addressed as a process, then all stakeholders involved - researchers, governmental officials, and community members - can begin to understand and devise more effective ways to increase both girl and boy students' enrollment, participation, and success in school.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Endorsements
  5. List of Tables and Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter One: Introduction: Gender and Education
  8. Chapter Two: Setting the Context: Nepal, Jiri, and Education
  9. Chapter Three: Telling the Story: An Overview of the Research Design
  10. Chapter Four: Social Construction of Gender in the Family and Community
  11. Chapter Five: Reinforcing Gender in Schools
  12. Chapter Six: Gender Trouble Makers: Individuals Resisting Gender Constraints
  13. Chapter Seven: Conclusions: Gender, Education, and Empowerment
  14. Chapter Eight: Epilogue: Reflections on the Process
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography