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Author Hertzog, Esther, author.

Title Patrons of women : literacy projects and gender development in rural Nepal / Esther Hertzog.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The vulnerable patron: playing the role of a foreign gender consultant -- Instrumental patronage: Leon and Hanna -- Marginalizing economic activities, profiting from literacy classes -- The role of economic activities in negotiating consent -- The seminar: the successful failure of the women's empowerment project -- Gender and the phantom budget.
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Summary Assuming that 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 practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of.
Subject Literacy programs -- Nepal.
Rural women -- Nepal -- Social conditions.
Women in rural development -- Nepal.
Sex discrimination against women -- Nepal.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Literacy programs. (OCoLC)fst00999898
Rural women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01101909
Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
Women in rural development. (OCoLC)fst01177966
Nepal. (OCoLC)fst01206102
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Hertzog, Esther. Patrons of women. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 (DLC) 2011000952
ISBN 9781845459857 (electronic book)
1845459857 (electronic book)
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