Introduction: Women's Empowerment: Contentions and contestations

By Andrea Cornwall, N. A. Anyidoho. 2010

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Andrea Cornwall and Nana Akua Anyidoho critically examine empowerment in an introduction to how to go beyond mainstream interpretations of empowerment to discover what is happening in women's lives that is bringing about positive change.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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• Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development (2012, background): “Such programmes leave much of the responsibility for project success or failure on the shoulders of the women and girls depicted as strong, resourceful, and endlessly energetic in their efforts to better themselves, their families, and their nations (Cornwall and Anyidoho 2010).”