Gender, Identity, and Imperialism Women Development Workers in Pakistan
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesScienceEarth SciencesGeologyPolitical ScienceAnthropologyFeminism & Feminist TheoryHistoryAsiaIndia & South AsiaWomen's StudiesHistory & TheoryCultural & Social
2008Book
Author(s)Nancy Cook
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403979919
LanguageEnglish
