Village Ties : : Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh / / Nayma Qayum.

Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.) :; 15 b-w images, 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • PART I Setting the Stage
  • 1 Institutions
  • Chapter 2 A Gendered Story
  • Chapter 3 Poor Women’s Politics
  • PART II Formal and Informal Institutions
  • Chapter 4 Clients, Rules, and Transactions
  • Chapter 5 Rule of Law
  • PART III Negotiating with State and Society
  • Chapter 6 Changing Distributive Politics
  • Chapter 7 Negotiating Justice
  • Chapter 8 Governing Locally
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index