Paradoxes of empowerment :

Sharma, Aradhana.

Paradoxes of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India / Aradhana Sharma. - New Delhi : Zubaan, 2010. - xxxvii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

"Copyright: 2008 by the Regents of University of Minnesota'--T.p. verso.

Empowerment assemblages : a layered picture of the term -- Engendering neoliberal governance : welfare, empowerment, and state formation -- Empowering moves : paradoxes, subversions, dangers -- Staging development : a drama in north India -- (Cross)talking development : state and citizen acts -- Between women? : the micropolitics of community and collectivism -- Conclusion: Terra incognita, or a politics without guarantees.

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Women in development--India--Uttar Pradesh.
Economic development projects--India--Uttar Pradesh.
Poor women--Services for--India--Uttar Pradesh.
Public welfare--India.
Neoliberalism--India.

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