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Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Part I Theory and praxis

1 Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development: an introduction

Empowerment and power Empowerment, power and development Empowerment, gender and development Empowerment: local, national and global Conclusion

2 Education as a means for empowering women

Revisiting the concept of empowerment Empowerment within formal schooling Empowerment among adult women Learning processes in the empowerment of adult women The contributions of informal learning Combining the cognitive and the economic dimensions of empowerment Institutional development and support Conclusion

Part II Women’s empowerment in a global world

3 Envisaging power in Philippine migration: the Janus effect

Migrants, time and local spaces Empowerment and ‘the local’ Gender in Philippine labour migration Reading power in migration Agency, class and the cultural politics of leaving Contingent sojourns Empowerment dialectics

4 Women’s rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates: toward empowerment?

CEDAW: a tool for women’s empowerment? ‘Complementarity’ of rights: a ‘Muslim’ view of the norm of non-discrimination and equality Conclusion

5 Feminizing cyberspace: rethinking technoagency

Introduction Cyberspace, boundaries and agency Women and cyberpolitics Cyber possibilities and development Conclusion

Part III The nation state, politics and women’s empowerment

6 Engaging politics: beyond official empowerment discourse

Empowerment terminology A multilateral case Empowerment is political Policy priorities: little dent on gender relations Democratic spaces: contexts of democracy, peace and/or redistribution? International technical assistance and ‘democracies’ Bring politics in with women and gender equality agendas Empowerment in US bipartisan discourse: from global to local Concluding implications

7 Movements, states and empowerment: women’s mobilization in Chile and Turkey

Introduction Gender ideologies, states and women’s movements The emergence and evolution of the Chilean women’s movement The emergence and evolution of the women’s movement in post-1980 Turkey Conclusion

8 Political representation, democratic institutions and women’s empowerment: the quota debate in India

Introduction The Indian experiments with quotas Women’s interests, women representatives ‘Social backwardness’ and quota politics The arguments for quotas The arguments against Caste, class, gender: dilemmas for feminisms Conclusion

9 Gender, production and access to land: the case for female peasants in India

Introduction ‘Personal laws’ in India and the Hindu Succession Act 1956 Models, roles and identities Women’s work, contribution and access to land Land to the tiller: women and land reforms in India Conclusion

Part IV The local/global, development and women’s empowerment

10 Rethinking participatory empowerment, gender and development: the PRA approach

Introduction Participatory rural appraisal: the new methodology Evaluating PRA, participation and empowerment: a gender perspective Conclusion

11 The disciplinary power of micro credit: examples from Kenya and Cameroon

Introduction Appropriating the concept of empowerment African responses to women’s empowerment The relevance of the Foucauldian power framework Disciplinary power of micro credit: examples from Kenya and Cameroon The impact of micro credit on women’s empowerment Conclusion

12 Development, demographic and feminist agendas: depoliticizing empowerment in a Tanzanian family planning project

Introduction The international context of the Integrated Project The national context of the Integrated Project The local context of the Integrated Project The development agenda: local participation and communities’ ‘felt needs’ Demographic goals: promotion of permanent and long-term contraception The feminist agenda: depoliticizing gender and ‘passive acceptors’ Conclusion

13 Informal politics, grassroots NGOs and women’s empowerment in the slums of Bombay

Introduction Women’s informal politics Empowerment of women: experiences of NGOs The role of NGOs Conclusion

Part V Conclusion

14 Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development

Contextualizing chapters: challenges ahead

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