Introduction: win-win capitalism -- Approaches to corporate-led empowerment in the Global South -- Feminist research in the wake of corporate power -- Branding poverty: the values of women's empowerment -- "Open happiness": empowering emotions -- The entrepreneurialization of feminized labor --...

The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning....