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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan - Comparative Feminist Studies N. Cook 1st ed. 2007 edition
Gender, Identity, and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan - Comparative Feminist Studies
N. Cook
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.
228 pages, XIII, 228 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 14, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349538522 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 228 |
| Dimensions | 141 × 215 × 18 mm · 324 g |