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Educating Activists
Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians
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2010
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What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This gracefully written, accessible ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development's terms in a quest to improve their own communities. Klenk offers an account of Lakshmi Ashram, a remarkable Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Educating Activists blends memories and stories with historical research and richly detailed ethnographic analysis to craft a compelling portrait of how women across two generations have engaged with issues of sustainability, poverty, gender equity, autonomy, and progress.
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2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3735-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3737-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
251
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter One: Educating Modern Gandhians: Lakshmi Ashram and Its Mission No access
Chapter Two: "Who Is the Developed Woman?" No access
Chapter Three: Lakshmi Ashram's First Generation No access
Chapter Four: Samāj Sevā No access
Chapter Five: "What's All This Gandhi-Gandhi About?": Lakshmi Ashram's Second Generation No access
