Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment

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Author: Rekha Datta

ISBN-10: 1588260143

ISBN-13: 9781588260147

Category: General & Miscellaneous

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Acknowledgments1Introduction: Empowerment and Disempowerment12Women and the United Nations: Norms, Reproductive Health and Rights, and Population Policy113The Empowerment of Women Through International Law314State Ideology and Women in Rural China475The State, Development, and Empowerment in India756Structural Adjustment and the Empowerment (or Disempowerment) of Women in Niger and Senegal937Structural Adjustment Policies in Mexico and Costa Rica1138Making Waves: Women and Development in the Caribbean1299The Empowerment of Palestinian Women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip14510Conclusion: Assessing Women and Empowerment163Glossary167UN Conventions and Declarations of Particular Importance to Women's Rights171Bibliography173The Contributors179Index181About the Book189