Volume 47. Issue 1A
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Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)With the formulation of the first ever internationally agreed stand-alone goal on gender equality, debates around women’s empowerment are at a critical juncture. This IDS Bulletin makes a timely contribution to our ... -
Introduction: Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)With the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on gender equality and women’s empowerment, debates around empowerment of women find themselves at a critical juncture of donor preferences, programmatic and ... -
Liberal vs. Liberating Empowerment: A Latin American Feminist Perspective on Conceptualising Women’s Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)Since the early 1980s, feminists in Latin America have engaged in a range of programmes and activities aimed at promoting women’s empowerment, but have yet to produce frameworks to analyse this process at work. Tracing and ... -
From Rags to Riches Looking at Poverty from a Gender Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)This article takes up the theme of 'gender and poverty', but looks at it from the vantage point of women living in an increasingly opulent setting. The case study comes from a small rural community in south-eastern Iran. ... -
Editorial: Tactics and Trade-Offs Revisiting the Links Between Gender and Poverty
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)Poverty has not always been analysed from a gender perspective. Prior to the feminist contributions to poverty analysis, the poor were either seen as composed entirely of men or else women's needs and interests were assumed ... -
Beyond the Rhetoric of Choice: Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment in Developed Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)In preparing for the 20-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action on women’s economic empowerment, both formal policy documents and media coverage in developed countries such as the Netherlands resonate with the ... -
Family, Households and Women’s Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, Through the Generations: Continuities or Change?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)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 ... -
Introduction: Quotas – Add Women and Stir?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)Quotas have become increasingly popular as a fast track option for securing enhanced political representation largely because of their proven impact on increasing the number of women in parliament. As more countries have ... -
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)This article will explore the conflicted relationship between the women’s movement – with a specific location in feminism – and other people’s movements on the one hand, and the changing policies of the state on the other, ... -
Women’s Voices, Work and Bodily Integrity in Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Processes in Sierra Leone
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)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: ... -
Introduction: Negotiating Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)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, the ... -
Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)This article addresses some central issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women’s human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned ...
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