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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...

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Main Author: Cook, Nancy (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Comparative feminist studies series.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Ethnography.
Feminism.
Gender Studies.
Geology.
History of South Asia.
Political Science.
Ethnology.
Feminist theory.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Political science.
Sex (Psychology)
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Asia > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
ISBN:9780230610019
DOI:10.1057/9780230610019