Logics of empowerment : development, gender and governance in neoliberal india /
Aradhana Sharma
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
- xxxvii, 260p. 23cm.
This is an ethnographic study of the structure, practices, and effects of the Mahila Samakhya program, a government-organized non-governmental organization involving Indian state agencies and feminist groups that aims to mobilize low-caste, rural women who have been disempowered by economic forces and by social and political structures in neoliberal India.
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Economic development projects--India--Uttar Pradesh Neoliberalism--India. Poor women--Services for--India--Uttar Pradesh Public welfare--India Women in development--India--Uttar Pradesh