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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism : Women Development Workers in Pakistan / by N. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Nancy.
- Series:
- Comparative Feminist Studies, 2752-3217
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Geology.
- Political science.
- Ethnology.
- Feminism.
- Feminist theory.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Gender Studies.
- Political Science.
- Ethnography.
- Feminism and Feminist Theory.
- History of South Asia.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Geology.
- Political Science.
- Ethnography.
- Feminism and Feminist Theory.
- History of South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611915506
- 9781281915504
- 1281915505
- 9780230610019
- 0230610013
- OCLC:
- 314766454
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