| Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Cook, N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140397991X ISBN-13: 9781403979919 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This book is an ethnographic study of a group of Western women development workers living in Gilgit, northern Pakistan. It focuses on their efforts to construct comfortable lives and identities while temporarily working abroad in this Muslim community. It also analyses the political consequences of their actions, addressing the ways in which these women perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in their everyday lives. The author traces the legacy of many of these relations from the colonial period into the present, and provides ideas about how they can be changed to realise a more just global social reality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2007020721 |
| Series: Comparative Feminist Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 7.04" W x 8.49" (0.88 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present. |