Gerard Labouring Women

Aid and Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5923-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Offering a powerful critique of contemporary visions of women’s empowerment, this book traces the shift from its radical feminist roots to a market-driven model of inclusion.

Focusing on Southeast Asia, where women’s labour has long underpinned economic growth, it examines how empowerment projects intersect with the privatization of development and the rise of gender expertise. Once a collective agenda to support women in exerting greater control over their lives, empowerment is now framed as integrating women into markets. Backed by donors, corporations and development institutions, this model has only persisted and expanded, despite extensive scholarship highlighting its limits.

Through extensive analysis of interventions, funders and the micropolitics of aid and corporate actors, the book demonstrates how gender programming can simultaneously disempower and create space for resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerard, Kelly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Rise and Rise of a Big Idea

2. The Business of Development

3. Constructing Knowledge on Women’s Empowerment

4. Locating Women’s Labour in Southeast Asian Development

5. Funding Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Asia

6. Valuing Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Asia

7. Gender Experts and the Repurposing of Women’s Empowerment

8. Leverage and Resistance

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard, Kelly
Kelly Gerard is Discipline Chair and Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia.