| | When women try to change their world - and the parameters are ambitiously drawn in this book, 'household-village-national-global' , the struggle can be a costly one. 'Empowerment and transformation are not painless processes. Women who have advanced themselves have experienced years of tension and conflict within their homes, extended families and communities. They have persevered in spite of ridicule, backlash and pain, sustained by their vision of the future, for their children if not for themselves; and by the solidarity and the support received sometimes just from one key "significant other"' . |
