"Neoliberalization" as Betrayal : State, Feminism, and a Women's Education Program in India / by S. Sharma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Shubhra.

Series:

Comparative Feminist Studies, 2752-3217

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Sex.

Culture.

Anthropology.

Sociology.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Culture.

Local Subjects:

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Gender Studies.

Sociology of Culture.

Anthropology.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One "Education for Women's Equality and Empowerment":The Mahila Samakhya Program (MS) (1989); Two "Getting There, Being There": Using Ethnography,Investigating Ethnography in Chitrakoot and Delhi; Three "When I Say We, I Don't Mean Me": Neoliberal Bureaucracy and Techniques of National Governance; Four "We Have to Move from Conceptualization to Operationalization": (Un)Easy Relationships between State and Feminism

Five "Empowerment Was Never Conceptualized as Entitlement": Problems in Operationalizing a"Feminist" ProgramSix "Empowerment Should Be Collective": Four"Truth-Tales"; Appendix I: Mahila Samakhya Program Structural Hierarchy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613158703

9781283158701

1283158701

9780230320352

023032035X

9780230119208

0230119204

OCLC:

739051391