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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 shows how the
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-A -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.
It will appeal to practicing development experts,
policy-makers, researchers and graduate students of
development studies, gender studies, social
anthropology and social work. Anybody interested in
women`s education and empowerment in South Asia
will find this useful.ISBN:9789382264613
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Pages : 278
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