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On norms and agency (Record no. 26586)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.3
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title On norms and agency
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Washington, D.C. :
Name of publisher World Bank,
Year of publication 2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xix, 207 p. :
Other physical details col. ill., col. map.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Directions in development. Human development
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Foreword / RACHEL KYTE -- Foreword / JUDITH RODIN -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction: the norms of power and the power of norms -- The study approach -- Methodology of the study -- Discussing and researching gender equality : a brief introduction to the primary study concepts -- Creating and enforcing gender through norms, roles and beliefs -- Changing norms -- Overview of chapters -- References -- Gender norms -- The rules we live by : gender norms and ideal images -- Normative frameworks for household gender inequalities -- The good girl, the good boy -- Community-level views of gender norms -- References -- Negotiating the norms that bind : a winding road -- The quiet relaxing and changing of norms -- Timing is all: negotiating opportunities and gender-specific responsibilities -- Intergenerational transmission of the possibility of change -- Gender norms in transition -- "A woman should be beaten if she deserves punishment" -- A. extent and forms of domestic violence -- B. causes and consequences of domestic violence -- References -- Having and making choices -- Strategic life decisions : who has the final say? -- Investing in education : why should girls and boys go to school? -- Why should I leave school? : not my choice! -- From school to work : getting the first job -- A. You say, I say: the weight of adult voices on job decisions -- "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage" -- What is mine is yours : asset control and decision-making -- When does choice mean agency? -- References -- Empowerment -- What drives agency? : what crushes it? -- Step by step : climbing the "ladder of power and freedom" -- Perceptions of factors shaping agency -- Combinations of mobility factors -- Men's and women's interdependent agency and gender norm change -- References -- Structures of opportunity and structures of constraint -- Community factors that fuel agency -- Whose jobs? -- It takes a village : local economic dynamism and empowerment -- Impact of laws and local civic action on empowermen -- Change women need -- References -- Final thoughts -- Appendix a methodological note -- References.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Sex role.
Topical Term Sex discrimination against women.
Topical Term Women's rights.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mu�noz Boudet, Ana Mar�ia.
Personal name Petesch, Patti.
Personal name Turk, Carolyn.
Personal name Thumala, Ang�elica.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10690516

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