Empowerment and the Law:
Strategies of Third World Women
Margaret Schuler (editor)
OEF International, 1986
Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-912917-11-3
454 pages
Library of Congress Catalog Number:
86-62721
The collection of papers presented at the Forum were published in 1986 as Empowerment and the Law: Strategies of Third World Women. The papers document the deepening understanding of the legal, cultural, political, and economic underpinnings of women's subordination. They describe women gaining the skills needed to utilize the “system” (where possible), or challenge and even subvert it (where necessary), in order to assert rights, redress injustices, and access economic and political resources. It is about partial successes and tentative understandings. It is about ongoing processes of articulating ever more adequate analyses and implementing more effective and congruent action strategies.
OEF International, 1986
Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-912917-11-3
454 pages
Library of Congress Catalog Number:
86-62721
The collection of papers presented at the Forum were published in 1986 as Empowerment and the Law: Strategies of Third World Women. The papers document the deepening understanding of the legal, cultural, political, and economic underpinnings of women's subordination. They describe women gaining the skills needed to utilize the “system” (where possible), or challenge and even subvert it (where necessary), in order to assert rights, redress injustices, and access economic and political resources. It is about partial successes and tentative understandings. It is about ongoing processes of articulating ever more adequate analyses and implementing more effective and congruent action strategies.