Sara Duke

Comparative Practices and Perspectives

Gender, Development, and Empowerment in Uttarakhand, India and Northern Virginia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a qualitative comparative case study which
investigated the values, practices, perspectives,
and strategies of Indian and American community
organizers (practitioners and volunteers of non-
profits and non-governmental organizations) who use
microfinance, including savings schemes, as an
instrument within the social intermediation process
of developing disadvantaged women's capacities for
self-sufficiency/empowerment. The focused inquiry
was conducted through in-depth interviews of
directors, staff members and volunteers/community-
based organizers of a women s business center in
Northern Virginia, a large US metropolitan area, and
a women s federation in the rural Himalayas. Katz s
framework for constructing analytical topographies,
contour lines and countertopographies was used to
structure the various levels of analysis.
Differences were explained by situating each
organization in Mayoux s theoretical paradigms
of Women s Empowerment through Microfinance.
Analyses concluded with the construction of
countertopographies on practices and
strategies aimed towards collectively empowering
women in disparate places around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783639116595
• ISBN-10: 3639116593
• Artikelnr.: 25934287

Autorenporträt

Sara Duke earned a Master s of Urban and Regional Planning, a
Post-baccalaureate in Applied Social Science Research and a
Bachelor of Science in Economics from Virginia Commonwealth
University. She was awarded the 2008 Presidential Award for
Community Multicultural Enrichment from Virginia Commonwealth
University for community leadership.