ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how low-income women in Bangladesh experience empowerment on a day-to-day basis. Emphasis is placed on women’s agency in negotiating new identities, spaces and greater bodily self-possession. Before discussing the concepts of empowerment and agency, I will briefly sketch the general situation of women in Bangladesh and the role non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play in this context. The vocational training programme for women offered by the grassroots organisation Gonoshasthaya Kendra provides the background for my analysis of women’s empowerment practices.
