Women and Empowerment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Women and Empowerment — Some Illustrative Studies

   • Haleh Afshar

   Pages 1-10

3. A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development

   • Jo Rowlands

   Pages 11-34

4. Fruits of Burden–The Organisation of Women Temporary Workers in Chilean Agribusiness

   • Stephanie Barrientos

   Pages 35-56

5. Gender and Rural-Urban Migration in China

   • Delia Davin

   Pages 57-66

6. The Grameen Bank Experiment: Empowerment of Women through Credit

   • Lutfun N. Khan Osmani

   Pages 67-85

7. Localities of Power: Gender, Parties and Democracy in Chile and Brazil

   • Fiona Macaulay

   Pages 86-109

8. The Syrian Woman: Reality and Aspiration

   • Leila Djabari

   Pages 110-116

9. ‘Disempowerment’ and the Politics of Civil Liberties for Iranian Women

   • Haleh Afshar

   Pages 117-133

10. Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Research Project in India

    • Purna Sen

    Pages 134-154

11. Engendering the Analysis of Conflict: A Southern Perspective

    • Donna Pankhurst, Jenny Pearce

    Pages 155-163

12. Women Dying, Women Working: Disempowerment in British India

    • Jocelyn Kynch, Maureen Sibbons

    Pages 164-188

13. Assessing the Impact: NGOs and Empowerment

    • Elsa L. Dawson

    Pages 189-209

14. Back Matter

    Pages 210-214

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The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? Do political parties facilitate or do they channel energies away from empowerment? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.

• Chile
• conflict
• democracy
• gender
• migration
• Third World
• violence
• women

• University of York, UK

  Haleh Afshar

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