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Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal by Esther Hertzog (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBerghahn Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101800739427

ISBN-139781800739420

eBay Product ID (ePID)20058375537

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Number of Pages278 Pages

Publication NamePatrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectGender Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorEsther Hertzog

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"Hertzog has produced a valuable anthropological work, and it is a good contribution to the ongoing anthropological discourse on aid politics." * JRAI "This compelling ethnographic analysis raises very important questions about gender and development that resonate well beyond the particular context of rural Nepal. Although the book paints quite a bleak picture of gender consultancies and development projects more generally, it is a great example of self-critical scholarship that should encourage us to reflect on the implications of our own practices." * International Feminist Journal of Politics, "Hertzog has produced a valuable anthropological work, and it is a good contribution to the ongoing anthropological discourse on aid politics." * JRAI

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal379.24095496

SynopsisAssuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a "Gender Activities Project" within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of local elites. She shows how a project intended to benefit women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills, fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. Going beyond the conventional analysis that positions aid givers vis-à-vis powerless victimized recipients, she draws attention to the complexity of the process and the active role played by the Nepalese rural women who pursue their own interests and aspirations within this unequal world. The book makes an important contribution to the growing critique of "development" projects and of women's development projects in particular.

LC Classification NumberLC157.N35H47 2011