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Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan / Nancy Cook.

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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xi, 228 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Summary:
This book is an ethnographic study of a group of Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers, with a focus on how these transnational migrants constructed new lives and identities in a Muslim community. Nancy Cook addresses the ways in which these women both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in their everyday lives, tracing the legacy of these relations from the colonial period to the present.
Contents:
  • Introduction : points of arrival and departure. Parameters of study. Tracking the text
  • Bazaar situations. Cited transcultural interactions. Exploration sites. Postpartition travel sightings. Tourist sights. Development sites. Home sites. Historic citings
  • Vulnerable and spatializing subjects. Constructing the danger. Vulnerable subjects in Gilgit. Spatializing subjects. A vulnerable imperial logic?
  • 'Free' travelers and developers navigating boundaries. Why do they come to Gilgit? Free selves/subjugated others. What to wear, what to wear? Working women. Free or not? Why did they come?
  • Another bun in the oven. The cult of domesticity. Constructing a haven. The power of the cult of domesticity. Achieving home and self. Governing the haven. Managing servants. Managing western families. Domestic governance and spatial (re)organization
  • Conclusion : ruptures and recuperations? Epilogue. Agency speculations.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-222) and index.
ISBN:
  • 140397991X
  • 9781403979919
OCLC:
133465523
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