A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development

  • Rowlands J
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Empowerment has become rather a buzz word for the 1990s. As well as now being used by Western politicians, it was a word frequently heard at the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and at the World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994. Current use of the word...

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Rowlands, J. (1998). A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development. In Women and Empowerment (pp. 11–34). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26265-6_2

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