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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"An important contribution to the debate about the institutionalization of women's education." - Gendered Perspectives on International Development
"Sharma has written a fascinating book about women's education and 'empowerment' in India. Grounded in a decade of reflexive, robust ethnography, her provocative work challenges taken-for-granted ways of doing and writing 'third world' feminism. In Sharma's account, empowerment is less about progressive practices for change and much more about the production of subjects within governance structures. She skillfully weaves women's own stories and experiences into an engaging and informative account of state authority, feminist expertise, and betrayal under neoliberalism. This is anthropology for the twenty-first century." - Monica J. Casper, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University and author of The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
"Sharma writes a convincing portrait of how education policy operates by entangling bureaucrats and program recipients at multiple levels, often producing contradictory outcomes. By examining program failure as 'betrayal,' she ushers in a new way of thinking about neoliberal development policy. This book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on bureaucracy, development, and gender studies." - Lamia Karim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon and author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt inBangladesh
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: “Neoliberalization” as Betrayal
Book Subtitle: State, Feminism, and a Women’s Education Program in India
Authors: Shubhra Sharma
Series Title: Comparative Feminist Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119208
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Shubhra Sharma 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61991-3Published: 11 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38249-1Published: 11 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11920-8Published: 06 June 2011
Series ISSN: 2752-3209
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3217
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 274
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Anthropology, Sociology, general