TY - GEN T1 - Girls in global development : figurations of gendered power T2 - Transnational girlhoods ; A2 - Switzer, Heather D., 1970- A2 - Desai, Karishma A2 - Bent, Emily LA - English PP - New York PB - Berghahn Books YR - 2024 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1396193759 AB - "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"-- OP - 193 CN - HQ798 .G5259 2024 SN - 9781805391784 SN - 180539178X SN - 9781805391777 KW - Teenage girls. KW - Teenage girls : Economic conditions. KW - Adolescentes. KW - Adolescentes : Conditions économiques. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies ER -