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Renegotiating Patriarchal Bargains? Rural Women’s Collective Livelihood Initiatives in India

In: Land, Labour and Livelihoods

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  • Bina Fernandez

    (University of Melbourne)

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Since the 1990s, a range of collective livelihood activities for women have been sponsored by the state and non-governmental organisations in India. This chapter presents case studies of three collective livelihood interventions for rural poor women in India, drawing on exploratory qualitative field research conducted with two co-operatives and a private limited company. Using a gendered livelihoods perspective, the chapter investigates two key questions: first, the extent to which collective livelihood interventions for the economic empowerment of poor women are in fact controlled by women, rather than by the men of their households; second, whether such collective initiatives offer rural poor women the opportunity to renegotiate patriarchal bargains within households.

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  • Bina Fernandez, 2016. "Renegotiating Patriarchal Bargains? Rural Women’s Collective Livelihood Initiatives in India," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Land, Labour and Livelihoods, pages 309-329, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-3-319-40865-1_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40865-1_15
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