Rebecca Klenk

Educating Activists (eBook, PDF)

Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 shows how 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 research and richly detailed ethnographic analysis to craft a compelling portrait of how women across two generations have engaged with issues of sustainability, poverty, gender equity, autonomy, and progress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216321873
• Artikelnr.: 75143717

Autorenporträt

Rebecca M. Klenk is a sociocultural anthropologist who teaches at the University of Tennessee and has directed the University of Washington's Environment and Development Study Abroad Program in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I: Developed Women
Chapter 3 1: Educating Modern Gandhians: Lakshmi Ashram and its Mission
Chapter 4 2: "Who is the Developed Woman?"
Part 5 II: "Sarala Devi's Daughters"
Chapter 6 3: Lakshmi Ashram's First Generation
Chapter 7 4: Samaj Seva
Chapter 8 5: "What's All This Gandhi-Gandhi About?" Lakshmi Ashram's Second
Generation
Part 9 III: Development, Place, and Possible Futures
Chapter 10 6: A Place on Fire