Girls in global development : figurations of gendered power /
"Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls' potential to multiply investment, inter...
| Other Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2024].
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| Series: | Transnational girlhoods ;
v. 6. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.6879756 |
| Summary: | "Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls' potential to multiply investment, interrupt intergenerational poverty, and predict economic growth. Girls in Global Development presents case studies from established and emerging scholars to collectively theorize and examine the concept of "Girls in Development" (GID), a distinctive way of approaching notions of girls and girlhoods in locations around the globe, at various points in history, through a critical feminist lens"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 193 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781805391784 180539178X 9781805391777 |