TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hertzog,Esther
TI  - Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal 
SN  - 9781789206418
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Social Science / Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Assuming 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 "development expert," she demonstrates how the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting the interests of local elites. She demonstrates how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8b5e94b5-8e18-4976-9801-b80d28840c87
ER  -