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A major re-evaluation of ideas about power, this book throws new light on empowerment by showing how women can and do take power into and over their own lives. In exploring and celebrating the achievements of rural Mexican women, the authors celebrate how often it is poor women in poor countries who are celebrating new powers and changing their own lives rather than the more obvious beneficiaries of women's liberation in the Noth. This deals with power in everyday terms: how power is gained or lost through working with others; how women's lives are defined or constrained by the power of the state, family or religion; how self-empowerment can transform personal relations; and the effects of power supported from within or without by NGOs and/or the international developmetn community. All these examples are set against writings on women's self-empowerment, from India to Peru. 'The thing that makes the most impact about this book is that through each one of the testimonies, reflections and discussions, we approach empowerment as a never-ending process...We are invited to recognize the complex journey, at once individual and universal, from dependency to freedom'. Virginia Vargas
Author(s): Townsend JG, Zapata E, Rowlands J, Alberti P, Mercado M
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 1999
Number of Volumes: 1
Number of Pages: 224
Publisher: Zed Books
Place Published: London
URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=4koqAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_ViewAPI
Notes: Many thanks to Nina Laurie for invaluable critical comments!
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ISBN: 1856498034
