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Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal / Esther Hertzog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hertzog, Esther, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 104863
- ISBN:
- 9781789206418
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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