ISBN:
140397991X
,
9781403979919
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 228 p)
,
map
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Comparative feminist studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender, Identity, and Imperialism : Women Development Workers in Pakistan
DDC:
305.4095491
Keywords:
Sex discrimination against women
;
Women Social conditions
;
Muslim women Social conditions
;
Women in development
;
Visitors, Foreign
;
Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions
;
Muslim women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions
;
Visitors, Foreign -- Pakistan
;
Women in development -- Pakistan
;
Sex discrimination against women -- Pakistan
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure; One: Bazaar Situations; Two: Vulnerable and Spatializing Subjects; Three: 'Free' Travelers and Developers Navigating Boundaries; Four: Another Bun in the Oven; Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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