The Power of Women's Informal Networks Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa

by Purkayastha, Bandana; Subramaniam, Mangala; Adams, Alayne M.; Ambrose-Oji, Bianca; Bhattacharya, Kumkum; Creevey, Lucy; Fallon, Kathleen; Gurung, Shobha Hamal; Husain, Shahanara; Madhavan, Sangeetha; Purohit, Simone; Purishothaman, Sangeetha; Purkayastha,

• ISBN13: 9780739108048
• ISBN10: 0739108042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-10
• Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Summary

Too often, editors Bandana Purkayastha and Mangala Subramaniam have found, marginalized groups in rural or impoverished areas are overlooked by the international economy of knowledge. The Power of Women's Informal Networks describes and evaluates social organization among poor women in South Asia and West Africa as attempts to challenge marginalization. The discerning editors and contributors explicitly consider the situated contexts within which women work together to improve their lives, with a primary focus on international women's agencies.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Bandana Purkayastha
Mangala Subramaniam
Networking within Santal Society: Focus on Women	15	(16)
Kumkum Bhattacharya
Women's Social Support Networks and Contraceptive Use in Mali	31	(16)
Alayne M. Adams
Dominique Simon
Sangeetha Madhavan
Women's Networks and Social Change in Bangladesh	47	(14)
Shahanara Husain
Impacts of Changing Patterns of Women's Association Membership in Senegal	61	(14)
Lucy Creevey
Using Informal Networks to Seek Formal Political Participation in Ghana	75	(14)
Kathleen Fallon
Women Weavers in Nepal: Between Global Market and Local Production	89	(16)
Shobha Hamal Gurung
The Informal Collective as a Space for Participatory Planning: The Peri-Urban Interface in Hubli-Dharwad Twin City Area	105	(16)
Sangeetha Purushothaman
Simone Purohit
Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Afterword: Informal Networks, Gender, and Change	121	(12)
Bandana Purkayastha
Mangala Subramaniam
Index	133	(6)
Contributors	139