Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan

(Part of the Comparative Feminist Studies Series)

by Nancy Cook

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349538523

ISBN13:9781349538522

Release Date:April 2008

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:228 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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