Empowerment through Photo Novella: Portraits of Participation.

Wang, Caroline; Burris, Mary Ann

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ERIC Number: EJ480601

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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Empowerment through Photo Novella: Portraits of Participation.

Wang, Caroline; Burris, Mary Ann

Health Education Quarterly, v21 n2 p171-86 Sum 1994

Photonovels, based on empowerment education, feminist theory, and documentary photography, enable people with little money, power, or status to communicate needed changes to policymakers. Use of the process with 62 rural Chinese women shows how it contributes to changed consciousness and policy formation. (SK)

Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Documentaries, Females, Foreign Countries, Participation, Photography, Policy Formation, Rural Population, Social Change

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China

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