{"product_id":"patrons-of-women-literacy-projects-and-gender-development-in-rural-nepal-9781845457686","title":"Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAssuming that 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 practicing “development expert,” she demonstrates that the professed goal of “women’s empowerment” is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of local elites. She shows how a project intended to benefit women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills, fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. Going beyond the conventional analysis that positions aid givers vis-à-vis powerless victimized recipients, she draws attention to the complexity of the process and the active role played by the Nepalese rural women who pursue their own interests and aspirations within this unequal world. The book makes an important contribution to the growing critique of “development” projects and of women’s development projects in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Hertzog has produced a valuable anthropological work, and it is a good contribution to the ongoing anthropological discourse on aid politics.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• JRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This compelling ethnographic analysis raises very important questions about gender and development that resonate well beyond the particular context of rural Nepal. Although the book paints quite a bleak picture of gender consultancies and development projects more generally, it is a great example of self-critical scholarship that should encourage us to reflect on the implications of our own practices.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• International Feminist Journal of Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tMap of Nepal\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDevelopment Projects – Persistence Despite Evident Failure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t\"Development\" and \"Development Projects\" – Neocolonialism behind Social Change Discourse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEconomic and Gendered Critique of Development and the World Bank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDo Micro-finance Schemes Help the Poor and Women in Developing Countries?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Comeback of \"Development\" Theories – Maiava's Study as an Example\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eDevelopment and Women's Empowerment Projects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Construction of Third World Women's Underdevelopment and Subordinated Femininity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPostmodern Feminist Theory Trapped in Development Discourse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAmbivalence in Discussing the Futility of Gender Development Projects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eGender, Development and Literacy in Nepal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe \"Third World\" Image of Nepali Women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNepali Women's Participation in the Maoist Insurgency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPower, Poverty and Women's Illiteracy in Nepal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eMethodology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. The Vulnerable Patron: Playing the Role of a Foreign Gender Consultant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPatronage and Power-dependence Relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDeceitful Hierarchy – Privileged Experts and Low-ranked Paraprofessionals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Compelling Power and Appealing Advantages of the Consultant's Position\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManufacturing the Image of a Gender Expert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Tourist in Disguise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Professional Care-taker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIn the Name of Women’s Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConfronting Men's Chauvinism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPatronizing Anita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tComplying with Expectations to Patronize the Village Men\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPatronizing Male Officials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVeiled Vulnerability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReluctant Patron, Vulnerable Foreigner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Instrumental Patronage: Leon and Hanna\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLeon, as a Bossy Patron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tComplying with Hanna's Dominance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Betrayed Patron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tImposing Discretion for the Sake of Dominance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tServing Tea and Power Gaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Jeep – Symbolizing and Contesting Superiority\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Eidiculed Patron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAbusing the Defenseless Indoors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBribery, Drunkenness and Ethnocentrism – Cooperation and Mutual Dependence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. The Phantom of Literacy Classes for Women Villagers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLiteracy and Economic Resources - On Paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRecommending Literacy – Fenster's Report\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIlliteracy as a Case for Foreign Expertise – My Report\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSuccessful Negotiations for Stalling Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Project's Reports, The Social Order and Developers' Compliance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. The Role of Economic Activities in Negotiating Consent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDevelopment Tourists and Collaborating Village-women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisiting Ekala, \"Literate Developers\" Meet \"Illiterate Villagers\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisiting Khumundihawa, Intruders Meet Locals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisiting West Baharaulia - Procedural Rituals and Cracking Stereotypes   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStructured Social Distance and Men's Marginality in the Village Encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Village Women's Assertiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisiting Bhawarabari, Women Leaders and Economic Issues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBrindban and Sikatahan, Encountering a Field-bank and Village Women's Enterprises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManipulative Developers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIgnoring the Women's Wishes and Deluding Them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tForeign Agencies Take Over Responsibilities of State Authorities  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Appeal of Women's Organized Groups to Financial Agencies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Appeal of the Village Women Groups from the NGOs' Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Village Women - Neither Naïve nor Passively Manipulated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIlliteracy as a Means for Establishing the Image of Women's Collective Intellectual Failure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. The Seminar – The Successful Failure of the Women's Empowerment Project\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManufacturing a Fictitious Success – The Seminar and Thapa's Class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Collaboration of the World Bank with the Nepali and Israeli Partners in Faking Progress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Seminar as a Platform for Exercising Men's Power – The Use of Cultural Discourse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBossing Women in the Hierarchic Setting of the Irrigation Project  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMen's Supervision Over the Women in the Seminar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNo Books for the Seminar – Men's Stalling and Women's Anxiety  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Seminar – Degrading and Disempowering Women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. Gender and the Phantom Budget\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Women's Budget in a Male Dominated Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Flexible Budget and Feminine Compliance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGender Consultants Accommodating to the Power of Men\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStimulating Hopes, Providing Vague Promises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDisillusioned Hopes: Gradual Unfolding of the Bluff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMen's Game: Power, Aggression, Devaluating Women's Matters  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBecoming Part of the System: A Coopted Feminist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManipulating Facts and Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFeminine Coping with Confusing Messages and Stalling Tactics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tUnveiling the Truth: Women's \"Peanuts\" Money for Men's Bonuses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNo Budget for Women's Activities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042987311447,"sku":"9781845457686","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845457686.jpg?v=1750956538","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/patrons-of-women-literacy-projects-and-gender-development-in-rural-nepal-9781845457686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}