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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Comparative Feminist Studies
ISBN-10
140397991X
ISBN-13
9781403979919
Edition
2007 ed.
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 14th, 2008
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 16.30 x 1.70 cms
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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.
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.
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