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Age and empowerment amongst slum dwelling women in Hyderabad
Author(s) -
Afshar Haleh,
Alikhan Fatima
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.957
Subject(s) - slum , empowerment , sociology , gender studies , socioeconomics , women's empowerment , gerontology , economic growth , demographic economics , geography , demography , medicine , economics , population
This paper seeks to offer an understanding of empowerment in terms of the experiences of a group of slum dwelling older women in Hyderabad. It is the contention of this paper that their experience does not reflect the negative view of ageing common among Western researchers to the effect that old age is necessarily debilitating and disempowering. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.