Introduction: Women's empowerment: Contentions and contestations

Andrea Cornwall, Nana Akua Anyidoho

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)144-149
Number of pages6
JournalDevelopment (Basingstoke)
Volume53
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2010

Keywords

  • Development
  • bodies
  • culture
  • desire
  • feminist
  • gender equality

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