Village ties : women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh /

Village ties : women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh / Nayma Qayum.

"Across the global South, poor women's lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions - rules that exist on paper - but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of wa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Qayum, Nayma (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Rural women > Bangladesh > Social conditions.
Non-governmental organizations > Bangladesh.
Non-governmental organizations.
Rural conditions.
Rural women > Social conditions.
Bangladesh > Rural conditions.
Bangladesh.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Setting the Stage
  • 1. Institutions
  • 2. A Gendered Story
  • 3. Poor Women's Politics
  • pt. II Formal and Informal Institutions
  • 4. Clients, Rules, and Transactions
  • 5. Rule of Law
  • pt. III Negotiating with State and Society
  • 6. Changing Distributive Politics
  • 7. Negotiating Justice
  • 8. Governing Locally.

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