TY  - GEN
AU  - Hertzog,Esther
TI  - Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
SN  - j.ctt9qd6nt
PY  - 2011///0501
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Gender studies: women
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Gender
KW  - Studies
KW  - Women
KW  - Development studies
KW  - Asia
KW  - Nepal
KW  - World
KW  - Bank
KW  - Economics
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37032
ER  -