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Eileen Kuttab contextualizes empowerment historically in Palestinian practices of mobilization and resistance. She draws on interviews and focus group discussions to explore the meanings the term has come to acquire in the Palestinian context. Kuttab examines alternative ways of understanding empowerment that go beyond instrumentalism to recapture some of the original associations the term had with power and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg reflects upon the experience of NEIM -- the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies of the Federal University of Bahia -- in engaging with 'empowerment'. NEIM has been involved in 27 years of activism in order to bring about changes, both structural as well as in women's individual lives, towards insuring greater autonomy for women and our increasing participation in decision-making. She opens up questions about how to engage more directly and more openly with the concept of empowerment, and considering its theoretical underpinnings and their methodological as well as wider political implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nyambura Ngugi reflects on the AWID 2005 Forum discussions in general and around the video ‘My Sister Is Not Too Heavy: Building strong movements’. The video is about the values and strategies that Kenyan women activists feel are required to build a strong women's movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]