Pathways and Related Publications
Publications
- Conceptions of Women's Empowerment
- Building Constituencies for Equality and Justice
- Changing Narratives of Sexuality
- Empowering Work
- Communications
- Regional Hubs and about Pathways
Latest
Naomi Hossain (2011) 'Security and the Pathways of Women’s Wmpowerment: Findings from a Thematic Synthesis of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research', Final Draft October 2011.
This paper reports on an effort to derive lessons about how security and insecurity shape processes of women’s empowerment in developing countries through a thematic synthesis of a collection of research outputs from a five year programme of research on the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment.
Conceptions of Women's Empowerment
S. Azad (ed.), 2011, Ogni O Jol (Fire and Water), Dhaka: Mowla Brothers and BRAC University Press
H. Abdullah, A. F. Ibrahim and J. King, 2006, 'Women's Voices, Work and Bodily Integrity in Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Processes in Sierra Leone', Country Paper prepared for the West Africa Scoping Workshop, 4-7 July
N. Akua Anyidoho and T. Manuh, 2010, 'Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Ghana', Development, 53(2): 267-273
F. Azim and M. Sultan (eds), 2010, Mapping Women's Empowerment: Experiences from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Dhaka: BRAC Development Institute and The University Press Ltd
S. Batliwala, 2007, 'Putting the Power Back into Empowerment', openDemocracy article, 30 July
Contestations, 2011, 'What is happening to Donor Support for Women's Rights?', Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Issue 4, Pathways
Contestations, 2010, 'Women's Empowerment: What do Men have to do with it?', Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Emily Esplen, Issue 3, Pathways
Contestations, 2010, 'Islam and Feminism', Edited by Hania Sholkamy, Issue 1, Pathways, (also in pdf format)
A. Cornwall and N. A. Anyidoho, 2010, 'Women's Empowerment: Contentions and Contestations', Development 53(2): 144-149
A. Cornwall and J. Edwards (eds), 2010, 'Negotiating Empowerment', IDS Bulletin, 41(2), Brighton: Institute of Development Studies. See also a summary of the introduction from this Bulletin on the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre website (GSDRC).
A. Cornwall, 2009, 'New Narratives of Women's Empowerment', audio from Andrea's Sussex Development Lecture at the University of Sussex.
A. Cornwall, 2007, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', openDemocracy article, 30 July
A. Cornwall, J. Gideon and K. Wilson, 2008, Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neoliberalism, IDS Bulletin, 39(6), Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
E. Esplen, S. Heerah and C. Hunter, 2006, Women's Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography, Bridge and Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC: Brighton
R. Eyben and R. Napier-Moore, 2008, Conceptualising Women's Empowerment in International Development Agencies, Pathways Working Paper 6 (pdf file 2 MB)
R. Eyben, 2008, Conceptualising Policy Practices in Researching Pathways of Women's Empowerment, Pathways Working Paper 1, May (pdf file 4 MB)
R. Eyben, 2008, Conceptualising Policy Practices in Researching Pathways of Women's Empowerment, Pathways Brief 1, November
Pathways South Asia, 2011, Pathways South Asia Hub Final Synthesis Report 2006-2011, Dhaka: BRAC (pdf file 1 MB)
Pathways Team, 2010, Pathways Guide to Empowerment, youtube (Pathways Channel). Researchers talk about their views on the concept and term 'empowerment' in the light of their research.
Real World scheme DVD, 2010, 'Women's Stories from Palestine and Brazil' featuring two documentary films:
A Vida Politica, Directed by Kat Mansoor - looking at activism Brazilian-style through the eyes of four women engaged in struggles for abortion rights, political representation, sex worker rights and racial empowerment.
Thorns and Silk, Directed by Paulina Tervo - showing four women who are doing jobs that many regard as a male preserve negotiating empowerment in their everyday lives in a context dominated by the experience of the Israeli occupation.
The Real World scheme was set up by Pathways and Screen South.
C. Sardenberg, 2010, 'Women's Empowerment in Brazil: Tensions in Discourse and Practice', Development, 53(2): 232-238
C. Sardenberg, 2009, 'Liberal vs Liberating Empowerment: Latin America' Pathways Working Paper 7 (pdf 2 MB)
H. Sholkamy, 2010, 'Creating Conservatism or Emanicipating Subjects? On the Narrative of Islamic Observance in Egypt', IDS Bulletin, 42(1): 47-55
Women on the Move. A photo-essay co-authored by Professor
Firdous Azim and Samia Rahim from the Pathways South Asia Hub, published by the Inter-Asia Cultural
Studies Journal. The essay is based on a travellng photography
exhibition that was organised by the Hub in December 2007
which depicted the "Changing Images of Women in Bangladesh". See the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal webpage
Building Constituencies for Equality and Justice
H. J. Abdullah and A. Fofana-Ibrahim, 2010, 'The Meaning and Practice of Women's Empowerment in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone', Development, 53(2): 259-266
S. Alvarez, 2009, 'Beyond NGOization?: Reflections from Latin America', Development, 52(2): 175-184
A. Atia Apusigah, D. Tsikata and M. Mukhopadhyay, 2011, 'Women's Rights Organizations and Funding Regimes in Ghana',CEGENSA Technical Publication No. 1, Pathways of Women's Empowerment (West Africa) Hub and Centre for Gender Equality and Advocacy (pdf file 1 MB)
R. Eyben, 2010, 'What if the Girls Don't Want to be Businesswomen? Discursive Dissonance in a Global Policy Space', Development, 53(2): 274-279
A-M. Goetz and C. Nyamu, 2008, 'Voice and Women's Empowerment: Mapping a Research Agenda', Pathways Working Paper 2, July (pdf file
2 MB)
A-M. Goetz and C. Nyamu, 2008, 'Voice and Women's Empowerment: Mapping a Research Agenda', Pathways Brief 2, December (pdf file 1 MB)
I. Jad, 2010, 'Islamism and Secularism: Between State Instrumentalisation and Opposition Islamic Movements', IDS Bulletin, 42(1): 41-46
E. Kuttab, 2010, 'Empowerment as Resistance: Conceptualizing Palestinian Women's Empowerment', Development, 53(2): 247-253
T. Manuh, 2007, 'African Women and Domestic Violence', openDemocracy article, 26 November
M. Mukhopadhyay and R. Eyben with S. Nazneen, M. Sultan, A. Apusigah and D. Tsikata (2011) 'Rights and Resources: The Effects of External Financing on Organising for Women's Rights', Amsterdam and Brighton: Royal Tropical Institute and Pathways of Women's Empowerment
S. Nazneen, N. Hossain and M. Sultan, 2011, National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Continuities and Change, IDS Working Paper 368, Brighton: IDS
S. Nazneen and S. Tasneem, 2010, 'Legitimacy Enhances Capacity', Capacity: Local Government for Gender Equality, Issue 40, September
S. Nazneen, M. Sultan and N. Hossain, 2010,
'National Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: Enabling or Constraining Women's Choices?', Development, 53(2): 239-246
S. Nazneen and M. Sultan, 2009, 'Struggling for Survival and Autonomy: Impact of NGO-ization on Women's Organizations in Bangladesh', Development, 52(2): 193-199
S. Nazneen, M. Sultan and M. Mukhopadhyay, 2011, 'Mobilising for Women's Rights and the Role of Resources: Synthesis Report - Bangladesh', Pathways of Women's Empowerment (South Asia) Hub and BRAC Development Institute (pdf file 2 MB)
H. Sholkamy, 2010, 'Power, Politics and Development in the Arab Context: Or How Can Rearing Chicks Change Patriarchy?', Development, 53(2): 254-258
M. Tadros and A. A. Costa (eds), 2010, 'Quotas: Add Women and Stir?', IDS Bulletin, 41(5), Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
D. Tsikata, 2009, 'Women's Organizing in Ghana since the 1990s: From Individual Organizations to Three Coalitions', Development, 52(2): 185-192
Changing Narratives of Sexuality
F. Azim (ed.), 2011, 'Complex Terrains: Islam, Culture and Women in Asia', Special Issue Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 12.2
F. Azim, 2007, 'Women and Religion in Bangladesh: New Paths', openDemocracy article, 19 December
S. Huq and S. Islam Khondaker, 2011, 'Religion and Muslim Women: Trajectories of Empowerment', BDI Working Paper 2, Dhaka: BRAC Development Institute
Contestations, 2010, 'Sexual Pleasure Empowers Women!',edited by Susan Jolly, Issue 2, also in Chinese
S. Jolly, 2010, 'Pleasure and Empowerment: Connections and Disconnections', Development, 53(2): 227-231
A. Lynch, H. Standing and A. Cornwall (eds), 2008, Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue, IDS Bulletin, 39(3), jointly produced with the Realising Rights RPC. See also IDS News
C. Pereira, 2008, 'Changing Narratives of Sexuality - Concept Paper', Pathways Working Paper 4 (pdf file
2.5 MB)
C. Sardenberg, 2007, 'The Right to Abortion: Briefing from Brazil', openDemocracy article, 26 October
M. Al-Sharmani, 2008,
'Recent Reforms in Personal Status Laws and Women's Empowerment: Family Courts in Egypt', research paper, American University in Cairo, Executive Summary
Mulki Al-Sharmani, 2009, 'Egyptian Family Courts: A Pathway of Women's Empowerment?', Hawwa, 7(2)
M. Al-Sharmani, 2007, 'Egypt's Family Courts: Route to Empowerment?', openDemocracy article, 7 September
Empowering Work
A. Cornwall, F. Capibaribe and T. Goncalves, 2010, 'Revealed Cities: A Photovoice Project with Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil', Development, 53(2): 299-300
M. Fontana with R. Eyben, 2009, Agenda for Change: Women's Empowerment Needs a People-Centred Economy, Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC: Brighton
N. Kabeer,A. Khan and N. Adlparvar, 2011, 'Afghan Values or Women's Rights? Gendered Narratives about Continuity and Change in Urban Afghanistan', IDS Working Paper 387, Brighton: IDS
N. Kabeer, S. Mahmud and S. Tasneem, 2011, Does Paid Work Provide a Pathway to Women's Empowerment? Empirical Findings from Bangladesh, IDS Working Paper 375, Brighton: IDS
N. Kabeer, 2008, 'Paid Work, Women's Empowerment and Gender Justice: Critical Pathways of Social Change', Pathways Working Paper 3 (pdf file 5 MB)
N. Kabeer, 2008, Paid Work, Women's Empowerment and Gender Justice , Pathways Brief 3, December (pdf file 1 MB)
N. Kabeer, 2008, 'Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy', openDemocracy article, 29 January
N. Kabeer, 2007, 'Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life', IDS Working Paper 209, Brighton: IDS
A. Khan, 2011, 'Lady Healthworkers and Social Change in Pakistan', Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI.30: 28-31
M. Molyneux, 2008, 'Conditional Cash Transfers: A 'Pathway to Women's Empowerment?', Pathways Working Paper 5 (pdf file 4 MB)
M. Molyneux, 2009, 'Conditional Cash Transfers: A 'Pathway to Women's Empowerment?', Pathways Brief 5, July (pdf file 1.5 MB)
Communications
T. Lewin, 2010, 'Communicating Empowerment: Countering the Cardboard Woman', Development 53.2: 222-226
T. Lewin, 2008, The Key(board) to Equality: Communication technology can
change the lives of women around the world, The Guardian, 20 December
Pathways, 2011, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment Communications Strategy', Update February, Brighton: Pathways of Women's Empowerment
Regional Hubs and about Pathways
A. Darkwah and D. Tsikata, 2009, 'Researching Empowerment: On Methodological Innovations, Pitfalls and Challenges', paper presented to the Pathways of Women's Empowerment: What are we Learning? Conference, 20-24 January, Cairo
T. Lewin, 2008, 'The Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium', Gender & Development, 16(2), July
R. Eyben, 2006, Global Hub Scoping Report: Programme of Research into Global Policy Processes, Brighton: Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC
I. Jad, 2009, 'Women in Gaza', IDS News, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies
I. Jad, 2008, 'Does Women's Rights Activism Lack Lustre in Palestine?', interview with AWID
NEIM, 2007, Boletim Informativo No 01, Março de 2007, Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher (Português)
Pathways Latin America Hub, 2011, 'Pathways Latin America Synthesis Report 2006-2011', Salvador: NEIM
Pathways Middle East Hub, 2011, 'Pathways Middle East Synthesis Report 2006-2011', Cairo: Social Research Center
Pathways South Asia Hub, 2011, 'Pathways South Asia Synthesis Report 2006-2011', Dhaka: BRAC
Pathways West Africa Hub, 2011, 'Pathways West Africa Synthesis Report 2006-2011', Accra: CEGENSA
Pathways of Women's Empowerment South Asia: Stories of Change Film
|
 |
Links
Trilhas do Empoderamento de Mulheres - Latin America Hub
Website: http://www.projetotempo.neim.ufba.br/index.html
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC - Middle East Hub
Website: http://pathwaysmiddleeast.wordpress.com/
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC - South Asia Hub
Website: http://www.bracdevelopmentinstitute.org/women_empowerment.php
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC - West Africa Hub
Website: http://www.pathwaysghana.blogspot.com/
Partners: