The Power of Women's Informal Networks

Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa
Herausgeber: Purkayastha, Bandana; Subramaniam, Mangala

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Produktbeschreibung

Too often, editors Bandana Purkayastha and Mangala Subramaniam have found, marginalized groups in rural or impoverished areas are overlooked by the international economy of knowledge. The Power of Women's Informal Networks describes and evaluates social organization among poor women in South Asia and West Africa as attempts to challenge marginalization. The discerning editors and contributors explicitly consider the situated contexts within which women work together to improve their lives, with a primary focus on international women's agencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780739108048
• ISBN-10: 0739108042
• Artikelnr.: 21342006

Autorenporträt

Bandana Purkayastha is assistant professor of sociology and Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut. Mangala Subramaniam is assistant professor of sociology and women's studies at Purdue University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Chapter 2 Networking within Santal Society: Focus on Women
Chapter 3 Women's Social Support Networks and Contraceptive Use in Mali
Chapter 4 Women's Networks and Social Change in Bangladesh Chapter 5
Impacts of Changing Patterns of Women's Association Membership in Senegal
Chapter 6 Using Informal Networks to Seek Formal Political Participation in
Ghana Chapter 7 Women Weavers in Nepal: Between Global Market and Local
Production Chapter 8 The Informal Collective as a Space for Participatory
Planning: The Peri-Urban Interface in Hubli-Dharwad Twin City Area Chapter
9 Informal Networks, Gender, Change