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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan

Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan

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Series: Comparative Feminist Studies

General SociologyIndian & South Asian HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1349538523
ISBN13: 9781349538522
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Apr 14 2008
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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