Introduction: Women's Empowerment: Contentions and contestations

Introduction: Women's Empowerment: Contentions and contestations

Andrea Cornwall and Nana Akua Anyidoho critically examine empowerment in an introduction to how to go beyond mainstream interpretations of empowerment to discover what is happening in women's lives that is bringing about positive change.

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Veröffentlicht in:Development (Society for International Development) 2010-06, Vol.53 (2), p.144-149
Hauptverfasser: Cornwall, Andrea, Anyidoho, Nana Akua
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Activists
Development and Social Change
Development Economics
Development Policy
Development Studies
Empowerment
Equality
Feminism
Gender equity
Gender studies
Girls
International
Oppression
Patriarchy
Political activism
Power
Social Sciences
State-society relations
Upfront
Women
Womens rights movements
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Zusammenfassung:Andrea Cornwall and Nana Akua Anyidoho critically examine empowerment in an introduction to how to go beyond mainstream interpretations of empowerment to discover what is happening in women's lives that is bringing about positive change.
ISSN:1011-6370
1461-7072
DOI:10.1057/dev.2010.34