{"id":4568,"date":"2011-12-15T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:00:15","slug":"educating-activists-development-and-gender-in-the-making-of-modern-gandhians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2011\/12\/educating-activists-development-and-gender-in-the-making-of-modern-gandhians\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating Activists: Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/19c-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/19c.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,451\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Educating Activists\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/19c-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/19c.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4652\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/12\/19c-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Educating Activists\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/19c-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/19c.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>by <strong>Rebecca Klenk \u201985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development\u2019s terms in a quest to improve their own communities. The book focuses on Lakshmi Ashram, a Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India, and blends memories and stories with historical research and ethnographic analysis to craft a compelling portrait of how women across two generations have dealt with sustainability, poverty, gender equity, autonomy, and progress.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-0739137352. Published by Lexington Books, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Klenk \u201985 This ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development\u2019s terms in a quest to improve their own communities. The book focuses on Lakshmi Ashram, a Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India, and blends memories and stories with historical research and ethnographic analysis to craft&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2011","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}