Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states -- Limited government: training women what to need -- Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement -- Hybrid states and government from a distance -- State therapeutics: training women what to want -- The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology -- The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self -- Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism.
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