Enterprise and Inequality: A Study of Avon in South Africa
首次独立实证调查雅芳在南非帮助贫困女性增收和赋权的效果，并提出实用主义女性主义理论，呼吁重新审视市场民主历史中可复制的女性赋权创新。
Avon's apparent success in using entrepreneurship to help women escape poverty, as well as its staying power in circumstances where similar efforts have failed, has captured the attention of the international development community. This study, the first independent empirical investigation, reports that in South Africa, Avon helps some impoverished women earn a better income and inspires empowerment among them. The authors introduce a new theory, pragmatist feminism, to integrate past work on women's entrepreneurship and argue that feminist scholars should reexamine the histories of the market democracies for replicable innovations that may have empowered women.