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Girls in Global Development
Figurations of Gendered Power
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- English
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About this book
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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Yes, you can access Girls in Global Development by Heather Switzer,Karishma Desai,Emily Bent in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Feminism & Feminist Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Cover
- Introduction — Girls in Development: Discovering Girls, Producing Girl Effects
- Chapter 1 — Human Capital Theory and Girlhoods in Development
- Chapter 2 — Girls as New Frontiers: Corporatized Development and the Politics of Investing in Girls
- Chapter 3 — Teaching Aspirant Feminism to Girls in Development: A View from Urban Uganda
- Chapter 4 — “Where the Change Starts”: NGO Workers on Malawi’s Girls’ Education Industry
- Chapter 5 — Gendered Extractions: Women Teachers Implementing Girl-Focused Policy in Malawi
- Chapter 6 — “Give Girls a Chance to Participate in Developing the Country”: Cambodian Schoolgirls (Re)negotiate the Status of Girls
- Chapter 7 — Whose Voice? Whose Freedom? Beyoncé and Girl-Focused Development Campaigns
- Chapter 8 — When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and “Developing” the “Developed” World
- Index