maybe of interest

[Ariel Salleh]

https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2018/07/bia_20180726.mp3

fresh topic - from an Indian academic - albeit with a US accent - via Australan radio - forwarded from Brazil

[Ashwani Vasishth]

Thanks for this, Ariel—a wonderful discussion of the slippery concepts of women’s empowerment and oppression by Serene Khader.

But I would like to say, the full recording of the lecture reinforces my earlier assertion that most “good (desirable) things” (microcredit, women’s empowerment, poverty alleviation and so on), move lock-step with “bad (undesirable) things” (reinforcing gender stereotypes, assuming that women’s work is infinitely expandable, loading women (or people) with more and more uncompensated effort).

MP, when I say Yin and Yang, this is what I am talking about.   Nothing good comes without a bad attached to it, or vice versa. 

Her point is challenging the pop-culture understanding of the idea of “empowerment” of women—whether of the South or the North.  

Ariel, since you get what Dr Khader is saying, then you surely get a glimmer of what I’ve been struggling to articulate.  Here and in my own life. 

I find words are necessary, even as they get in the way.  Emails will never replace conversation. 

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    Ashwani
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Professor of Sustainability (Retired)
vasi...@ramapo.edu         
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http://linkedin.com/in/vasishth
                  

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 1:06 PM Ariel Salleh <ariels...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2018/07/bia_20180726.mp3

fresh topic - from an Indian academic - albeit with a US accent - via Australan radio - forwarded from Brazil

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