Participatory action research (PAR) in women's health: SARTHI, India

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dc.contributor.authorKhanna, Renu
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-09T16:55:43Z
dc.date.available2025-05-09T16:55:43Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractI would like to place these reflections in the context of my own experiences, both personal and work-related. I do this because I believe that I am typical of my kind, an activist and a practitioner working on women's issues. My educational background and training have contributed to the way I see myself. I have been a practitioner concerned with pragmatic action to bring about social change. I understood research as something lofty and abstract, concerned with a world of ideas. I have had, in fact, a mortal fear of research, resulting in a tendency to distance myself mentally from anything which was even remotely research-like. Second, somewhere quite early in my working life, I began seeing myself as an enabler, a facilitator for empowerment. This commitment to empowerment grew and gradually I began recognizing this, and around nine years ago I made some very conscious choices about my future work which I decided was to be in the area of women's empowerment. It is against this background that I shall examine the topic of PAR in women's health. What implications and meaning does PAR have for practitioners and for women's empowerment? In order to arrive at a conceptual understanding of PR for women's health action, I shall draw upon the last nine years' experiences that I have had working with Social Action for Rural and Tribal Inhabitants of India (SARTHI).
dc.identifier.citationKhanna, R. (1996). Participatory action research (PAR) in women's health: SARTHI, India. In K. de Konning and M. Martin (Eds.), Participatory research in health (pp. 62-71). Zed Books.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22208
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherZed Books
dc.titleParticipatory action research (PAR) in women's health: SARTHI, India
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