This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.

Autorentext
SHUBHRA SHARMA Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Affiliated Faculty of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, USA.

Inhalt
Education for Women's Equality and Empowerment': The Mahila Samakhya Program (MS) (1989) 'Getting there, Being there': Using Ethnography, Investigating Ethnography in Chitrakoot and Delhi 'When I say we, I don't mean me': Neoliberal Bureaucracy and Techniques of National Governance 'We have to move from conceptualization to operationalization': (Un) Easy Relationships between State and Feminism 'Empowerment was never conceptualized as entitlement': Problems in Operationalizing a 'Feminist' Program 'Empowerment should be collective': Four 'Truth-Tales'