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Author

Hertzog, Esther.

Title Patrons of women : literacy projects and gender development in rural Nepal / Esther Hertzog.

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New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages) : illustrations
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Series	Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
	Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The vulnerable patron: playing the role of a foreign gender consultant -- Instrumental patronage: Leon and Hanna -- Marginalizing economic activities, profiting from literacy classes -- The role of economic activities in negotiating consent -- The seminar: the successful failure of the women's empowerment project -- Gender and the phantom budget.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Assuming 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.
Note	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject	Literacy programs -- Nepal.
	Rural women -- Nepal -- Social conditions.
	Women in rural development -- Nepal.
	Sex discrimination against women -- Nepal.
	Femmes dans le développement rural -- Népal.
	Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Népal.
	EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
	EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Literacy programs
	Rural women -- Social conditions
	Sex discrimination against women
	Women in rural development
	Nepal https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqBrkJm4w88cg9k9Qfpfq
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
Other Form:	Print version: Hertzog, Esther. Patrons of women. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 (DLC) 2011000952
ISBN	9781845459857 (electronic bk.)
	1845459857 (electronic bk.)
	1845457684
	9781845457686
	9781789206418 (electronic bk.)
	1789206413 (electronic bk.)
	9781845457686 (hardback ; alk. paper)
	1299777236
	9781299777231
Standard No.	AU@ 000048838561
	AU@ 000055768306
	DEBSZ 423075977
	DEBSZ 431007896
	UKMGB 018404127