SERENE KHADER

What is Global Women's Empowerment?

From the popularity of charities that tout the transformative effects of giving a woman a goat or a sewing machine to the inclusion of gender equality among the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, enthusiasm for empowering women in the global South seems to be at an all-time high. But what does it mean to empower someone and what are the moral and political responsibilities of those who see themselves as charged with doing the empowering? This talk clarifies and criticises the values underlying existing empowerment practices and offers a vision of women’s empowerment rooted in concerns about global gender justice.

The 2018 Alan Saunders Lecture, was held conjointly with the Maurice Goldsmith Lecture.

Rutherford House, Wellington New Zealand

This lecture was recorded and available here.

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