Conluding that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment and in order to provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.

Part I Theory and praxis; Chapter 1 Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development, Jane L. ParPart, Shirin M. Rai, Kathleen Staudt; Chapter 2 Education as a means for empowering women, Nelly P. Stromquist; Part II Women’s empowerment in a global world; Chapter 3 Envisaging power in Philippine migration, Pauline Gardiner Barber; Chapter 4 Women’s rights, CEDAW and internationalhuman rights debates, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Chapter 5 Feminizing cyberspace, gillian youngs; Part III The nation state, politics and women’s empowerment; Chapter 6 Engaging politics, Kathleen Staudt; Chapter 7 Movements, states and empowerment, Marella Bodur, Susan Franceschet; Chapter 8 Political representation, democratic institutions and women’s empowerment The quota debate in India1, Shirin M. Rai; Chapter 9 Gender, production and access to land, Reena Patel; Part IV The local/global, development and women’s empowerment; Chapter 10 Rethinking Part icipatory empowerment, gender and development, Jane L. ParPart ; Chapter 11 The disciplinary power of micro credit, Josephine Lairap-Fonderson; Chapter 12 Development, demographic and feminist agendas, Lisa Ann Richey; Chapter 13 Informal politics, grassroots NGOS and women’s empowerment in the slums of Bombay, Vandana Desai; Part V Conclusion; Chapter 14 Concluding thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development, Kathleen Staudt, Shirin M. Rai, Jane L. ParPart ;