"Neoliberalization" as Betrayal: State, Feminism, and a Women's Education Program in India
Using initiatives by non-governmental organizations to promote women’s empowerment in rural India, this book draws new conclusions about the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and spatialization of the state. Sharma gets to the heart of the assumptions and blindspots inherent in these programs and makes an important contribution to the debate about the institutionalization of women's education.
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Series Editor's Foreword ix\ Acknowledgments xiii\ Introduction 1\ 1 "Education for Women's Equality and Empowerment": The Mahila Samakhya Program (MS) (1989) 19\ 2 "Getting There, Being There": Using Ethnography, Investigating Ethnography in Chitrakoot and Delhi 43\ 3 "When I Say We, I Don't Mean Me": Neoliberal Bureaucracy and Techniques of National Governance 75\ 4 "We Have to Move from Conceptualization to Operationalization": (Un)Easy Relationships between State and Feminism 107\ 5 "Empowerment Was Never Conceptualized as Entitlement": Problems in Operationalizing a "Feminist" Program 147\ 6 "Empowerment Should Be Collective": Four "Truth-Tales" 181\ Appendix I: Mahila Samakhya Program Structural Hierarchy 231\ Notes 233\ Bibliography 255\ Index 265
