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Speaking out : women's economic empowerment in South Asia
- Title
- Speaking out : women's economic empowerment in South Asia / edited by Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala.
- Publication
- London : IT Publications on behalf of Aga Khan Foundation Canada and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 1996.
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1240.5.S64 S64 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 238 pages : portraits; 23 cm
- Subject
- Women in development > South Asia > Case studies
- Women-owned business enterprises > South Asia > Case studies
- Women > South Asia > Economic conditions
- Women > Economic conditions
- Women in development
- Women-owned business enterprises
- Wirtschaft
- Empowerment
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Frau
- Sociaal-economische situatie
- Vrouwen
- womens empowerment
- women
- economic role
- poverty
- low income
- rural women
- women workers
- trade unionization
- womens organization
- credit cooperative
- production cooperative
- women in development
- development project
- case study
- autonomisation des femmes
- femmes
- rôle économique
- pauvreté
- faible revenu
- femmes rurales
- travailleuses
- syndicalisation
- organisation féminine
- coopérative de crédit
- coopérative de production
- rôle de la femme dans le développement
- projet de développement
- étude de cas
- potenciación de las mujeres
- mujeres
- papel económico
- pobreza
- bajos ingresos
- mujeres rurales
- trabajadoras
- sindicalización
- organización femenina
- cooperativa de crédito
- cooperativa de producción
- participación de la mujer en el desarrollo
- proyecto de desarrollo
- estudio de casos
- South Asia
- Südasien
- Bangladesh
- India
- Pakistan
- South Asia
- Sri Lanka
- Inde
- Asie du Sud
- Pakistán
- Asia del Sur
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- annotated bibliography.
- glossary.
- bibliographie annotée.
- glossaire.
- bibliografía comentada.
- glosario.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219, 225-238).
- Contents
- Preface / Nazeer Aziz Ladhani -- Preface / Noeleen Heyzer -- Introduction / Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala -- Case studies -- Village and Community Organizations -- Gathering the Second Harvest: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) in Northern Pakistan / Abinta Malik and Sandra Kalleder -- Transforming Women's Economies: Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) / Gul Rukh Selim -- Demanding Accountability: Proshika in Bangladesh / Lamia Rashid and Md. Shahabuddin -- Co-operatives -- 'Like my Mother's House': Women's Thrift and Credit Co-operatives in South India / Nandita Ray and D. P. Vasundhara -- Rural Women Manage their own Producer Co-operatives: Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)/Banaskantha Women's Association in Western India / Sharit Bhowmik and Renana Jhabvala -- Women's Banks -- Women Banking for Success: Women's Development Federation (WDF) in Sri Lanka / W. M. Leelasena and Chitrani Dhammika -- Unionization -- Empowering Marginalized Workers: Unionization of Tobacco Workers by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in Kheda, Gujarat / Sharit Bhowmik and Meena Patel -- A Struggle within a Struggle: The Unionization of Women in the Informal Sector in Tamil Nadu / Geetha Ramakrishnan -- Lessons learned / Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala -- Overview -- Sources of Disempowerment -- Organizing Women for Economic Empowerment -- Empowerment Strategies -- The Economic Empowerment of Women -- Increased Bargaining Power -- Structural Change -- Towards a Broader Perspective on Women's Empowerment -- Annotated Bibliography: Selected Studies on Women's Empowerment / Sophia Lam.
- ISBN
- 1853393827
- 9781853393822
- LCCN
- 97128125
- OCLC
- ocm36346968
- 36346968
- SCSB-367571
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library