Sharma, Aradhana

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

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