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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism

Women Development Workers in Pakistan
By:N. Cook
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403979919
eText ISBN:9780230610019
Edition:0
Copyright:2007
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.