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Gender, identity, and imperialism : women development workers in Pakistan
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- Creator
- Nancy Cook
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xi, 228 pages : map ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1281915505, 0230610013, 1349538523, 9781403979919, 140397991X, 9786611915506
- OCLC
- ocn133465523, ocn314766454
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-222) and index.
- 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