List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Map of Nepal
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Development Projects - Persistence Despite Evident Failure
- "Development" and "Development Projects" - Neocolonialism behind Social Change Discourse
- Economic and Gendered Critique of Development and the World Bank
- Do Micro-finance Schemes Help the Poor and Women in Developing Countries?
- The Comeback of "Development" Theories - Maiava's Study as an Example
Development and Women's Empowerment Projects
- The Construction of Third World Women's Underdevelopment and Subordinated Femininity
- Postmodern Feminist Theory Trapped in Development Discourse
- Ambivalence in Discussing the Futility of Gender Development Projects
Gender, Development and Literacy in Nepal
- The "Third World" Image of Nepali Women
- Nepali Women's Participation in the Maoist Insurgency
- Power, Poverty and Women's Illiteracy in Nepal
Methodology
Chapter 1. The Vulnerable Patron: Playing the Role of a Foreign Gender Consultant
- Patronage and Power-dependence Relations
- Deceitful Hierarchy - Privileged Experts and Low-ranked Paraprofessionals
- The Compelling Power and Appealing Advantages of the Consultant's Position
- Manufacturing the Image of a Gender Expert
- A Tourist in Disguise
- The Professional Care-taker
- In the Name of Women's Good
- Confronting Men's Chauvinism
- Patronizing Anita
- Complying with Expectations to Patronize the Village Men
- Patronizing Male Officials
- Veiled Vulnerability
- Reluctant Patron, Vulnerable Foreigner
Chapter 2. Instrumental Patronage: Leon and Hanna
- Leon, as a Bossy Patron
- Complying with Hanna's Dominance
- The Betrayed Patron
- Imposing Discretion for the Sake of Dominance
- Serving Tea and Power Gaps
- The Jeep - Symbolizing and Contesting Superiority
- A Eidiculed Patron
- Abusing the Defenseless Indoors
- Bribery, Drunkenness and Ethnocentrism - Cooperation and Mutual Dependence
Chapter 3. The Phantom of Literacy Classes for Women Villagers
- Literacy and Economic Resources - On Paper
- Recommending Literacy - Fenster's Report
- Illiteracy as a Case for Foreign Expertise - My Report
- Successful Negotiations for Stalling Time
- The Project's Reports, The Social Order and Developers' Compliance
Chapter 4. The Role of Economic Activities in Negotiating Consent
- Development Tourists and Collaborating Village-women
- Visiting Ekala, "Literate Developers" Meet "Illiterate Villagers"
- Visiting Khumundihawa, Intruders Meet Locals
- Visiting West Baharaulia - Procedural Rituals and Cracking Stereotypes
- Structured Social Distance and Men's Marginality in the Village Encounters
- The Village Women's Assertiveness
- Visiting Bhawarabari, Women Leaders and Economic Issues
- Brindban and Sikatahan, Encountering a Field-bank and Village Women's Enterprises
- Manipulative Developers
- Ignoring the Women's Wishes and Deluding Them
- Foreign Agencies Take Over Responsibilities of State Authorities
- The Appeal of Women's Organized Groups to Financial Agencies
- The Appeal of the Village Women Groups from the NGOs' Perspective
- The Village Women - Neither Naïve nor Passively Manipulated
- Illiteracy as a Means for Establishing the Image of Women's Collective Intellectual Failure
Chapter 5. The Seminar - The Successful Failure of the Women's Empowerment Project
- Manufacturing a Fictitious Success - The Seminar and Thapa's Class
- The Collaboration of the World Bank with the Nepali and Israeli Partners in Faking Progress
- The Seminar as a Platform for Exercising Men's Power - The Use of Cultural Discourse
- Bossing Women in the Hierarchic Setting of the Irrigation Project
- Men's Supervision Over the Women in the Seminar
- No Books for the Seminar - Men's Stalling and Women's Anxiety
- The Seminar - Degrading and Disempowering Women
Chapter 6. Gender and the Phantom Budget
- A Women's Budget in a Male Dominated Context
- A Flexible Budget and Feminine Compliance
- Gender Consultants Accommodating to the Power of Men
- Stimulating Hopes, Providing Vague Promises
- Disillusioned Hopes: Gradual Unfolding of the Bluff
- Men's Game: Power, Aggression, Devaluating Women's Matters
- Becoming Part of the System: A Coopted Feminist
- Manipulating Facts and Figures
- Feminine Coping with Confusing Messages and Stalling Tactics
- Unveiling the Truth: Women's "Peanuts" Money for Men's Bonuses
- No Budget for Women's Activities
References
Index
