Pathways of Women's Empowerment: Recent submissions
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Crossroads of Empowerment: The Organisation of Women Domestic Workers in Brazil
(Wiley, 2010-03)The organisation of women domestic workers in Brazil reveals a process of collective empowerment at work in a society where gender, race, and class inequalities intersect, giving rise to complex mosaics. Analysing processes ... -
Something is Better than Nothing: Political Party Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh
(South Asian Journal, 2009-06)The paper analyses the discourses on women’s empowerment among the three main political parties in Bangladesh: the Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami. It argues that the Islamist ... -
Strategies of feminist bureaucrats : perspectives from international NGOs
(IDS, 2012)This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in international non-governmental development organisations, as analysed from an insider ... -
Afghan values or women's rights? : gendered narratives about continuity and change in urban Afghanistan
(IDS, 2011)There is considerable debate about the extent to which gender equality and womens’ rights are universal values. This debate has been particularly heated in Afghanistan where the violation of women’s rights by the Taliban ... -
Strategies of feminist bureaucrats : United Nations experiences
(IDS, 2012)This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in the United Nations as analysed from a practitioner perspective. Part 1 by Joanne Sandler ... -
Subversively accommodating: feminist bureaucrats and gender mainstreaming
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Is it possible to secure the desired policy action ‘infusing’ gender into existing ways of doing and organising things – and by so doing to incrementally secure real gains for women? Or will transformative policies for ... -
Choosing Words with Care
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-06)Women’s empowerment’ is a fuzzy concept as used by international development organisations. Historical textual analysis and interviews with officials in development agencies reveal its adaptability and capacity to carry ...