Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World
Jane L. Parpart · Shirin M. Rai · Kathleen A. Staudt
Aug 2003 · Routledge
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Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that empowerment is both a process and an outcome. Moreover, the book warns that an obsession with measurement rather than process can undermine efforts to foster transformative and empowering outcomes. It concludes that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment. Only then will the term and its advocates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.
About the author
Jane L. Parpart Professor of History, International Development Studies and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. Shirin M. Rai Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. Kathleen Staudt Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
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