Gender, Identity, and Imperialism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure

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   Pages 1-24

3. Bazaar Situations

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   Pages 25-44

4. Vulnerable and Spatializing Subjects

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   Pages 45-83

5. ‘Free’ Travelers and Developers Navigating Boundaries

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   Pages 85-130

6. Another Bun in the Oven

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   Pages 131-167

7. Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?

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   Pages 169-184

8. Back Matter

   Pages 185-228

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An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present.

• Colonial Period
• Ethnographic Study
• gender
• imperialism
• Pakistan
• women

"An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University

"An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education Supplement

NANCY COOK is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University, USA. She is a faculty member of the interdisciplinary graduate programme in Globalization at McMaster University, USA.

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