Complicit Sisters
Gender and Women's Issues across North-South Divides
Seiten
2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-062656-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-062656-3 (ISBN)
NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, the most visible in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs focusing on women's rights have been successful in attracting funding for their causes, but critics argue that the highly educated elites from the global North and South who run them fail to question or understand the power hierarchies in which they operate. In order to give depth to these criticisms, Sara de Jong interviewed women NGO workers in seven different European countries about their experiences and perspectives on working on gendered issues affecting women in the global South.
Complicit Sisters untangles and analyzes the complex tensions women NGO workers face and explores the ways in which they negotiate potential complicities in their work. Weighing the women NGO workers' first-hand accounts against critiques arising from feminist theory, postcolonial theory, global civil society theory and critical development literature, de Jong brings to life the dilemmas of "doing good." She considers these workers' ideas about "sisterhood," privilege, gender stereotypes, feminism, and the private/public divide, and she suggests avenues for productive engagement between these and the inevitable tensions and complexities in NGO work.
Complicit Sisters untangles and analyzes the complex tensions women NGO workers face and explores the ways in which they negotiate potential complicities in their work. Weighing the women NGO workers' first-hand accounts against critiques arising from feminist theory, postcolonial theory, global civil society theory and critical development literature, de Jong brings to life the dilemmas of "doing good." She considers these workers' ideas about "sisterhood," privilege, gender stereotypes, feminism, and the private/public divide, and she suggests avenues for productive engagement between these and the inevitable tensions and complexities in NGO work.
Sara de Jong is Research Fellow in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Development, and Geography at Open University, United Kingdom.
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Feminist Trajectories
3. Global Responsibilities
4. Bridging Distance
5. Interlocking Connections
6. Post-Colonial Configurations
7. Conclusion: Complicit Sisters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 163 mm |
Gewicht | 496 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-062656-9 / 0190626569 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-062656-3 / 9780190626563 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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