Women in Developing Countries : : Assessing Strategies for Empowerment /

Women in Developing Countries : : Assessing Strategies for Empowerment / / ed. by Rekha Datta, Judith Kornberg.

Case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East explore the goals, strategies, and results of women’s empowerment efforts in developing countries.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Anastasakos, Kiki,
Creevey, Lucy,
Datta, Rekha,
Kornberg, Judith,
Miller, Marian A. L.,
Patton, Charlotte Graves,
Sarsar, Saliba,
Suneja, Kathleen,
Tsai, Kellee S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Datta, Rekha,
Kornberg, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2002
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (189 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 Introduction: Empowerment and Disempowerment
  • 2 Women and the United Nations: Norms, Reproductive Health and Rights, and Population Policy
  • 3 The Empowerment of Women Through International Law
  • 4 State Ideology and Women in Rural China
  • 5 The State, Development, and Empowerment in India
  • 6 Structural Adjustment and the Empowerment (or Disempowerment) of Women in Niger and Senegal
  • 7 Structural Adjustment Policies in Mexico and Costa Rica
  • 8 Making Waves: Women and Development in the Caribbean
  • 9 The Empowerment of Palestinian Women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
  • 10 Conclusion: Assessing Women and Empowerment
  • GLOSSARY
  • UN CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE BOOK

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