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

This book is an ethnographic study of a group of Western women development workers living in Gilgit, northern Pakistan. It focuses on their efforts to construct comfortable lives and identities while temporarily working abroad in this Muslim community. It also analyses the political consequences of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cook, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Colección:Comparative feminist studies series.
Temas:
Women > Pakistan > Social conditions.
Women in development > Pakistan.
Visitors, Foreign > Pakistan.
Femmes > Pākistān > Conditions sociales.
Femmes dans le développement > Pākistān.
Visiteurs étrangers > Pākistān.
Visitors, Foreign
Women in development
Women > Social conditions
Pakistan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book is an ethnographic study of a group of Western women development workers living in Gilgit, northern Pakistan. It focuses on their efforts to construct comfortable lives and identities while temporarily working abroad in this Muslim community. It also analyses the political consequences of their actions, addressing the ways in which these women perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in their everyday lives. The author traces the legacy of many of these relations from the colonial period into the present, and provides ideas about how they can be changed to realise a more just global social reality.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN:9780230610019
0230610013

Ejemplares similares