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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism
Women Development Workers in Pakistanc
Cook, Nancy
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BOOK SUMMARY
This book is an ethnographic study of a group of Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers, with a focus on how these transnational migrants constructed new lives and identities in a Muslim community. Nancy Cook addresses the

BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.

BOOK 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

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 140397991X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403979919
Dewey Decimal: 305.4095491
Library of Congress: 2007020721
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 228

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