Educating Activists : development and gender in the making of modern Gandhians / Rebecca M Klenk

By: Klenk, Rebecca MContributor(s): Klenk, Rebecca MMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Publication details: Lanham, U K : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010Description: xii, 251 pages 24cmISBN: 9780739137352Subject(s): Social Sciences | Groups of people | Rural women -- India -- Himalaya Mountains Region | Sustainable development -- India -- Himalaya Mountains Region | Women in development -- India -- Himalaya Mountains Region | Social Science -- Women's Studies | Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948 -- Political and social views | EqualityDDC classification: 305.4889 KLE
Contents:
pt. 1. Developed women -- pt. 2. Sarala Devi's daughters -- pt. 3. Development, place, and possible futures.
Summary: What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This gracefully written, accessible ethnography showshow rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development's terms in a quest to improve their own communities. Klenk offers an account of Lakshmi Ashram, a remarkable Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Educating Activists blends memories and stories with historical rese
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pt. 1. Developed women --
pt. 2. Sarala Devi's daughters --
pt. 3. Development, place, and possible futures.

What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This gracefully written, accessible ethnography showshow rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development's terms in a quest to improve their own communities. Klenk offers an account of Lakshmi Ashram, a remarkable Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Educating Activists blends memories and stories with historical rese

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