Comparative Feminist Studies: Women Development Workers in Pakistan

Cook, N.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-04-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403979919

DOI: 10.1057/9780230610019

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 228