TY - BOOK AU - Hertzog, Esther AB - Assuming 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 “development expert,” she demonstrates how the professed goal of “women’s empowerment” is a pretext for promoting the interests of local elites. She demonstrates how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. DO - 10.2307/j.ctt9qd6nt ID - OAPEN ID: 1005221 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847100 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24883 KW - Anthropology KW - Gender KW - Studies KW - Women KW - Development studies KW - Anthropology KW - Asia KW - Nepal KW - World KW - Bank KW - Economics L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24883/1/1005221.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37032 PB - Berghahn Books PY - 2011-05-01 SN - 9781789206418 TI - Patrons of Women : Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal ER -