Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Rengalakshmi,; Sagayam, Josephine; Murthy, Ranjani K.; Nair, Sudha

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“…Lastly, "power within" refers to personal self-esteem, including the ability to see oneself as a change agent. Others suggest that "power inside" also refers to the cultivation of reflexivity or women's ability to identify the sources of their oppression (Afshar, 1998;Murthy, Sagayan, Rengalakshmi, & Nair, 2008).…”

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‘Creating a room of one's own’: French farm women, agritourism and the pursuit of empowerment

Annes

Wright

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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This paper explores how women use farm tourism as a vehicle for empowerment within the context of family farm agriculture. Drawing upon qualitative data of a farm women's agritourism network in southern France, we show that farm tourism enables women to cultivate personal empowerment strategies. Farm tourism allows women the opportunity to create a physical space for autonomy and individual creativity where they can pursue personal goals and overcome social isolation; in this way, it advances the process of empowerment. However, the process of empowerment is not without challenge. We demonstrate how the persistence of a patriarchal culture informed by an agrarian ideology can complicate this process. This study suggests that farm tourism permits women the possibility for constructing autonomous objectives which can lead to empowerment to the extent that they are acceptable to males and refrain from impeding male-led farming activity.

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Section: Conceptualizing Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Creating a room of one's own’: French farm women, agritourism and the pursuit of empowerment

Annes

Wright

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…Others suggest that “power within” (a.k.a. “power inside”) also refers to the practice of reflexivity, or a form of consciousness raising, whereby women develop the ability to identify the sources of their oppression (Afshar ; Murthy, Sagayan, and Nair ).…”

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Farm Women and the Empowerment Potential in Value‐Added Agriculture

Wright

Annes²

2016

Rural Sociology

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International audienceWhile the number of women in the U.S. is growing, less clear is whether increasing participation in agriculture translates into empowerment opportunities. Are invisibility and disempowerment lingering expressions of farm women's experience? Using qualitative data drawn from interviews with Michigan value-added farmers, we examine the extent to which women have been able to experience empowerment, and the ways in which value-added agriculture specifically fosters an empowering context. We adopt a conceptualization of empowerment from the development scholarship in order to establish a baseline for scrutiny, viewing empowerment as a multi-dimensional process constituting the 'power to' realize one's goals, the opportunity to exercise 'power with' others, and the ability to find and nurture 'power within' the self. Our findings indicate that value-added agriculture provides a unique context for women's empowerment. At the same time, the extent to which value added-agriculture constitutes a venue for women's empowerment is complex, multifaceted, and requires constant negotiation. It can be organized and performed in such a way as to subvert the empowerment process by confining women to specific social locations that may reify oppressive structures

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“…The advancement of social change is central to definitions of social entrepreneurship, yet we know little about how impacts at individual level translate into social change. Increasing women's income does not automatically lead to their empowerment (Leach and Sitaram 2002;Mansuri and Rao 2004;Murthy et al 2008;Narayan 2002) and may even decrease empowerment (Kantor 2005). By investigating how involvement in a social enterprise empowers women to influence both, how they use their time and how family income is spent, we show how individual agency contributes to social change.…”

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Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment

2014

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Entrepreneurship is increasingly considered to be integral to development; however, social and cultural norms impact on the extent to which women in developing countries engage with, and accrue the benefits of, entrepreneurial activity. Using data collected from 49 members of a rural social enterprise in North India, we examine the relationships between social entrepreneurship, empowerment and social change. Innovative business processes that facilitated women's economic activity and at the same time complied with local social and cultural norms that constrain their agency contributed to changing the social order itself. We frame emancipatory social entrepreneurship as processes that (1) empower women and (2) contribute to changing the social order in which women are embedded.

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Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Cited by 23 publications

References 3 publications

‘Creating a room of one's own’: French farm women, agritourism and the pursuit of empowerment

‘Creating a room of one's own’: French farm women, agritourism and the pursuit of empowerment

Farm Women and the Empowerment Potential in Value‐Added Agriculture

Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment

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