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Building women's capacities : interventions in gender transformation / edited by Ranjani K. Murthy.
- Title
- Building women's capacities : interventions in gender transformation / edited by Ranjani K. Murthy.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Murthy, Ranjani K.
- Description
- 383 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Comprises 16 papers which describe activities aimed at strengthening the capacities of women and transforming gender relations. Illustrates the use of training programmes for capacity building in relation to specific issues such as health care, microenterprise promotion and participation in local government and, more generally, for enhancing women's ability to negotiate within the family and the community. Explores non-training strategies for capacity building at the grassroots level.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustration.
- ilustración.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- To be or not to be : a self-help experience in women's reproductive health / Sabala and Kranti -- Transformative training : an experiment in Pudukkottai / Nitya Rao -- Microenterprise promotion for women in a traditional, male-controlled sector : the silk industry project in Karnataka and West Bengal / Frances Sinha -- 'God sits on our throat and tells us to discriminate against girls' : an experience with gender sensitisation of inland men and women fishworkers / Adithi -- Empowering women in Gram Panchayats through training / F. Stephen -- Grassroots training through satellite technology / Ammu Joseph -- Windows to the outside world : experiences in gender training in Hyderabad slums / Asmita -- Enhancing the negotiating power of women within families through process work / R. Mohanraj and Lakshmi Raman -- Under the guise of a tailoring programme : DAWN's experience in gender sensitisation of adolescent girls / A. Gandimathi -- Being true to feminism : the methodology of the status of rural women in Karnataka / B.K. Anitha and Anita Gurumurthy -- Mainstreaming gender in participatory technology development : dynamics between farmers' groups, NGOs and a support organisation in South India / Edith van Walsum and Rama Devi Kolli -- Empowerment from below : self-education and empowerment of grassroots women's collectives / Prema Gopalan -- (Up)lifting water and women or lip service only? The gender dimension of a lift irrigation programme / Nelleke van der Vleuten -- Gender, organisations and change : lessons from gender training of community-level education workers / Shobhita Rajagopal and Kanchan Mathur -- 'Being there was an important accident' : rethinking assumptions based on grassroots experiences / Shubha Chacko -- Lessons in capacity building for women's empowerment / Ranjani K. Murthy.
- ISBN
- 817829012X (India)
- 8178290642 (pb : India)
- 0761995331 (US)
- 0761995862 (pbk. : US)
- 0761995552
- LCCN
- ^^2001041632
- OCLC
- 47136715
- SCSB-12007481
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library