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

by N. Cook

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349538522
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	04/14/2008
Series:	Comparative Feminist Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

NANCY COOK is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University, USA. She is a faculty member of the interdisciplinary graduate programme in Globalization at McMaster University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?

Editorial Reviews

"An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University

"An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education Supplement

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