Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
By (Author) Aradhana Sharma
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
2nd January 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Feminism and feminist theory
Social and cultural anthropology
305.48
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their country's successes perceive and respond to their position and mobilize against disempowerment In Logics of Empowerment, Aradhana Sharma takes up these questions, focusing on the work of an innovative women's program called Mahila Samakhya that is part governmental and part nongovernmental and strives to empower those rural Indian women who have been pushed aside.
