Description: Focusing on the term empowerment this book examines the various meanings given to the concept of empowerment and the many ways power can be expressed - in personal relationships and in wider social interactions.
Brief description: Jo Rowlands is Senior Global Programme Adviser on governance and institutional accountability for Oxfam GB.
Review Quotes: Rowlands has written a book which hopefully will encourage, and even inspire, the many thousands of community-level workers struggling to confront situations of 'powerlessness' and to redress the balance of oppression and injustice.Community Development Journal, October 1998.