Buch
Monografie
Gender, identity and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan
Verfasst von:
Cook, Nancy
Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
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2008
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228 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Cook, Nancy |
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Comparative feminist studies series
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| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 140397991X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| 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. Chapter 1 explains the context of research. Chapter 2 examines the mechanism through which the participants' sexually vulnerable subjectivities are forged ambivalently in relation to Gilgiti men. Chapter 3 analyzes the processes by which Western women's "liberated" subjectivities are formed in relation to their experience of travel and to "oppressed" Muslim women. Chapter 4 analyzes Western women's Gilgiti homes as spaces of subjectivity formation and social exclusion. | |
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