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  title info:
    title: Complicit sisters
    sub title: gender and women's issues across North-South divides
  name:
    name part: Jong, Sara de
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs focusing on women's rights have been successful in attracting attention to their causes, but critics argue that the highly educated elites from the global North and South who run them fail to effectively question the power hierarchies in which they operate. In order to give depth to these criticisms, Sara de Jong interviewed women NGO workers in seven different European countries about their experiences and perspectives on working on gendered issues affecting women in the global South as well as migrant women in the global North. Complicit Sisters untangles and analyzes the complex tensions women NGO workers face and explores the ways in which they negotiate potential complicities in their work. Unlike other studies looking at development workers "on the ground," this book examines the women NGO workers in the global North who work to influence high level gender advocacy and policy, alongside women NGO workers supporting migrant women within the global North - a unique combination. Weighing the women's first-hand accounts against critiques arising from feminist theory, postcolonial theory, global civil society theory and critical development literature, de Jong brings to life the dilemmas of "doing good." -- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Feminist trajectories -- Global responsibilities -- Bridging distance -- Interlocking connections -- Post-colonial configurations.
  note: Sara de Jong.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: d------
  subject:
    topic: Women in development
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Women volunteers in social service
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Non-governmental organizations
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Developing countries
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Feminism
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Feminism
  subject:
    topic: Non-governmental organizations
  subject:
    topic: Women in development
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Women volunteers in social service
  subject:
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Nord-Süd-Beziehungen
  subject:
    topic: Entwicklungspolitik
  subject:
    topic: Nichtstaatliche Organisation
  subject:
    topic: Feminismus
  subject:
    topic: Frau
  subject:
    topic: Entwicklungshilfe
  subject:
    topic: Internationale Kooperation
  subject:
    topic: Geschlechterverhältnis
  subject:
    topic: Helfersyndrom
  classification: HQ1240.5.D44 J66 2017
  classification: 305.42094
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Complicit sisters
    name:
      name part: Jong, Sara de, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
    identifier: (DLC) 2016040898
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in gender and international relations
  identifier: 9780190626563 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0190626569 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2016027845
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160722
    record change date: 20170926120350.0
    record identifier: in00003805731
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng