The major aim in this book is to trace women’s experiences of empowerment in the Chitral valley in the north of Pakistan. My engagement with the narratives of the women informants focuses on empowerment as a continuous and intimate journey of personal change and self-awareness which involves constant negotiations and enduring pain. The primary concern of this study is to gain an understanding of the complexities involved in the empowerment process by unravelling the many varied aspects of power dynamics in the day-to-day lives of ordinary women through their personal experiences. I argue that empowerment happens when individual women desire, struggle for and are able to bring substantial changes in relations of power at different levels in their lives. Yet, to do this they require the ability to identify their disadvantaged position within a particular social setting.
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