Women's empowerment: the insights of Wangari Maathai
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
/ Gail M. Presbey
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
9626-1744
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متن يادداشت
Wangari Maathai of Kenya has written about empowerment, practiced it in many ways in her own life, and shared her reflections on it with many other women in the Green Belt Movement. Yet to date, no study has been devoted to her ideas on the topic. This paper will highlight Maathai's insights regarding empowerment, tracing several important themes in her approach, namely, empowerment's relationship to selfesteem, teamwork, and political action, its ambivalent relationship to formal education, and the role of cultural traditions in providing alternatives to colonialera cultural impositions and current exploitative effects of neoliberal capitalism. After reviewing Maathai's thoughts on each of these topics, I will briefly draw upon other East African thinkers and Africanists' studies of East African communities to present corroborating evidence for Maathai's views or for challenges to her position. Listening to the perspectives of Maathai and other East Africans provides several important correctives to current popular uses of the term empowerment.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
, (December 2013)
توصيف ظاهري
: P. 277-292
عنوان
Journal of Global Ethics
شماره جلد
, 9/3
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
empowerment
موضوع مستند نشده
women’s education
موضوع مستند نشده
East Africa
موضوع مستند نشده
gender
موضوع مستند نشده
equality
موضوع مستند نشده
poverty
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Wangari Maathai
موضوع مستند نشده
Green Belt Movement
موضوع مستند نشده
Kenya
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