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The Resource Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan, Nancy Cook

Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan, Nancy Cook

Label
Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan
Title
Gender, identity, and imperialism
Title remainder
women development workers in Pakistan
Statement of responsibility
Nancy Cook
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1961-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Cook, Nancy
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Comparative feminist studies series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women
  • Muslim women
  • Visitors, Foreign
  • Women in development
  • Sex discrimination against women
Label
Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan, Nancy Cook
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-222) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : points of arrival and departure. Parameters of study. Tracking the text -- Bazaar situations. Cited transcultural interactions. Exploration sites. Postpartition travel sightings. Tourist sights. Development sites. Home sites. Historic citings -- Vulnerable and spatializing subjects. Constructing the danger. Vulnerable subjects in Gilgit. Spatializing subjects. A vulnerable imperial logic? -- 'Free' travelers and developers navigating boundaries. Why do they come to Gilgit? Free selves/subjugated others. What to wear, what to wear? Working women. Free or not? Why did they come? -- Another bun in the oven. The cult of domesticity. Constructing a haven. The power of the cult of domesticity. Achieving home and self. Governing the haven. Managing servants. Managing western families. Domestic governance and spatial (re)organization -- Conclusion : ruptures and recuperations? Epilogue. Agency speculations
Control code
133465523
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xi, 228 pages
Isbn
9781403979919
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2007020721
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
maps
Label
Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan, Nancy Cook
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-222) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : points of arrival and departure. Parameters of study. Tracking the text -- Bazaar situations. Cited transcultural interactions. Exploration sites. Postpartition travel sightings. Tourist sights. Development sites. Home sites. Historic citings -- Vulnerable and spatializing subjects. Constructing the danger. Vulnerable subjects in Gilgit. Spatializing subjects. A vulnerable imperial logic? -- 'Free' travelers and developers navigating boundaries. Why do they come to Gilgit? Free selves/subjugated others. What to wear, what to wear? Working women. Free or not? Why did they come? -- Another bun in the oven. The cult of domesticity. Constructing a haven. The power of the cult of domesticity. Achieving home and self. Governing the haven. Managing servants. Managing western families. Domestic governance and spatial (re)organization -- Conclusion : ruptures and recuperations? Epilogue. Agency speculations
Control code
133465523
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xi, 228 pages
Isbn
9781403979919
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2007020721
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
maps

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