{"id":722,"date":"2021-03-01T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ethics\/?page_id=722"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:56:47","slug":"khader","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ethics\/khader\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Visiting Scholar: Serene Khader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Virtual Visiting Scholar: Serene Khader\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Prof. Serene Khader (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College) will be spending the week with us virtually, including mentoring and seminar discussion. On Friday, March 19, she will give a public lecture on <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ethics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/EPAF-Visiting-Scholar-Serene-Khader-Mar-19.pdf\">&#8216;The Dark Side of Women&#8217;s Empowerment.&#8217;<\/a> Prof. Khader is known for her incisive diagnosis of the problem of adaptive preference in development and feminist theory and for her innovative approach to feminist thought in <em>Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-dark-side-of-womens-empowerment\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dark Side of Women&#8217;s Empowerment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"serene-khader\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Serene Khader<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture and Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College<br>\nProfessor of Philosophy and Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Friday, March 19, 2021<br>\n4:30 P.M. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Development interventions that &#8220;empower&#8221; seem to be resulting in significant increases in women&#8217;s workloads without increases in, and sometimes even decreases in, their status or power. In other words, empowering women is starting to look a lot like burdening them. I argue here that this burdening of women is a predictable result of the conception of empowerment as choice or agency. Dominant conceptions of empowerment characterize empowerment as the increase in a person\u2019s ability to do what they choose. Yet conditions of gender equality and poverty structure women\u2019s options such that choosing, doing, and doing more are often both women\u2019s best option and modes of disempowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"accessing-the-lecture\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessing the Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Join by Zoom at the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/j\/94671920224\">https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/j\/94671920224<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting ID: 946 7192 0224<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Serene Khader (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College) will be spending the week with us virtually, including mentoring and seminar discussion. 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