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.
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Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
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Gender StudiesIndex
Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- PATRONS OF WOMEN
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1: THE VULNERABLE PATRON: PLAYING THE ROLE OF A FOREIGN GENDER CONSULTANT
- Chapter 2: INSTRUMENTAL PATRONAGE: LEON AND HANNA
- Chapter 3: MARGINALIZING ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, PROFITING FROM LITERACY CLASSES
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Chapter 4: THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN NEGOTIATING CONSENT
- Chapter 5: THE SEMINAR: THE SUCCESSFUL FAILURE OF THE WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Chapter 6: GENDER AND THE PHANTOM BUDGET
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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