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Abstract / Summary

In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, aspirations, and unexpected possibilities that digital social enterprise opens up for women entrepreneurs, and reveals the implications of policy models promoting women's empowerment: the failure of focusing on individual autonomy and independence. While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh's development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embedded and sustained.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Julia Qermezi Huang, fl. 2020

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2020 Cornell University Press

Content Type

Book

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

2020

Page Count

323

Publication Year

2020

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Place Published / Released

Ithaca, NY

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Work, Women and Rights, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Bangladesh, Women and Development, Markets, Women's self-organization, Economic Development, Access to Technology, 21st Century in World History (2001– )

Topic

Markets, Women's self-organization, Economic Development, Access to Technology

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher