Gender, Identity, and Imperialism
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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism

Women Development Workers in Pakistan

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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism

Women Development Workers in Pakistan

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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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Year
2007
ISBN
9780230610019

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Gender, Identity, and Imperialism
  3. Contents
  4. Series Editor’s Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure
  7. Chapter One Bazaar Situations
  8. Chapter Two Vulnerable and Spatializing Subjects
  9. Chapter Three ‘Free’ Travelers and Developers Navigating Boundaries
  10. Chapter Four Another Bun in the Oven
  11. Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index