Volume 41. Issue 2: Negotiating Empowerment
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Notes on Contributors
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010) -
Introduction: Negotiating Empowerment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)This introductory article draws out some of the dimensions and dilemmas around women's empowerment that are highlighted in the articles in this IDS Bulletin : the choices, the negotiations, the narratives and above all, ... -
Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)In the last decade, new family laws have been passed in Egypt, with important ramifications for women. In this article, I argue that two issues diminish the transformative role that these reforms could play in strengthening ... -
Education: Pathway to Empowerment for Ghanaian Women?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)Education has long been seen as crucial to women's empowerment. Increasingly, however, scholars such as Stromquist have questioned our faith in the power of education to empower women. Drawing on a survey of 600 women of ... -
Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)Over the last 20 years, the problem of low levels of representation of women in political office has been mobilising women, and especially feminists, throughout the world. The adoption of quotas has become a much?used tool ... -
No Path to Power: Civil Society, State Services, and the Poverty of City Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)In focusing on Ain el?Sira, a low?income neighbourhood of Cairo, this article challenges development theorists' ideas that civil society as a development partner is best able to promote women's empowerment, community ... -
Women's Voices, Work and Bodily Integrity in Pre?Conflict, Conflict and Post?Conflict Reconstruction Processes in Sierra Leone
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)This article focuses on the historical trajectories of women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, taking three entry?points as a means of exploring the dynamics of change over the pre?conflict, conflict and post?conflict periods: ... -
Subversively Accommodating: Feminist Bureaucrats and Gender Mainstreaming
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)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 ... -
Crossroads of Empowerment: The Organisation of Women Domestic Workers in Brazil
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)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 ... -
Reciprocity, Distancing, and Opportunistic Overtures: Women's Organisations Negotiating Legitimacy and Space in Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)By focusing on three different national level women's organisations in Bangladesh, this article looks at how the movements have used different strategies to become an effective voice for women's interests and empowerment ... -
Family, Households and Women's Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, Through the Generations: Continuities or Change?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the generations. Based on data collected over a period of nearly 20 years, it seeks to ... -
The Power of Relationships: Love and Solidarity in a Landless Women's Organisation in Rural Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)This article examines the significance of social relationships in women's lives and their relevance to processes of women's empowerment. In Bangladesh, traditional structures limit women's social interaction to their ... -
Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, Splintered Authority and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)Bangladesh has recently been seeing a rise in religiosity which has been treated as problematic, anti?secular and anti?progressive within the public sphere. Various writers describe this trend as having a disempowering ... -
Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)Empowerment in the Lives of Single Palestinian Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)There are rising numbers of single women across the Arab world. While this is usually connected with delayed marriage, Palestine shows a unique pattern of early but not universal marriage. This article looks beneath the ... -
Women Watching Television: Surfing Between Fantasy and Reality
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/03/2010)Young women are increasingly experiencing greater visibility and mobility in Bangladeshi society. The new public spaces they occupy together with the more traditional private spaces are greatly mediated by the narratives ...