A Context-Specific Community Practice Model of Women's Empowerment

Lessons Learned in Rural India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6076945
AutoresManoj Pardasani (0000-0003-4343-9673, Yeshiva University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas87-103
Fecha de publicación2005-06-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Community Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j125v13n01_06
OpenAlexW1828087800
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas15

This article will demonstrate the need for a context-specific model of community practice that aims to empower impoverished rural women and simultaneously improve their living conditions. The two main empowerment-based models of community practice currently prevalent in rural India and their ideological differences are highlighted. A unique case of community planning and mobilization that resulted in incremental yet significant changes in the socioeconomic milieu of a rural Indian community and initiated a re-evaluation of traditional gender roles is illustrated. Recommendations for community practitioners and leaders working with women in under-developed and economically deprived communities are offered to facilitate successful program implementation

Community development · Community mobilization · Community organization · Community organizing · Community practice · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Empowerment · Geography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Rural community · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Religion, Society, and Development