Pathways of Empowerment: Bodily Integrity and Women’s Empowerment
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This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order to understand what makes change happen. Secondly, it seeks to identify areas that need to be further explored in the main phase of the above mentioned research.
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