ISBN: 9783639116595 - comparative practices and perspectives: gender, development, and empowerment in uttarakhand, india and northern virginia (3 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 andstrategies aimed towards collectively empowering women in disparate places around the world.…