Chapter 3. The State and Women’s Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism 1
5. PART I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure
6. Chapter 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women’s Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina 21
7. Chapter 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women’s Empowerment 50
8. Chapter 3. The State and Women’s Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics 93
9. PART II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form
10. Introduction 115
11. Chapter 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia 119
12. Chapter 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women’s Participation and the NGO Boom in North India 143
13. Chapter 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women’s NGO Activism 166
14. Chapter 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh 193
15. PART III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs
16. Chapter 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization 221
17. Chapter 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania 248
18. Chapter 10. Women’s Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women’s NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle 266
19. Chapter 11. Beyond NGOization? Reflections from Latin America 285
20. Conclusion. Feminisms and the NGO Form 301
21. Bibliography 311
22. Contributors 353
23. Index 357