Girl Power?
A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi
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2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83972-1 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
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An examination of how, when, and why austerity capitalism and strands of feminism became intertwined, and why girl-focused programs have been at the heart of international policymaking.
Girl-focused education programs have long been at the heart of international policymaking—when girls’ access to education is ensured, the thought is, that they are more likely to turn into productive adults who can drive economic growth from below. These ideas combine strands of feminism and austerity capitalism, which, historian Sarah Bellows-Blakely argues, have a specific and understudied origin. In this book, she examines how a doctored study of girls’ education in East and Southern Africa led to the creation of international norms in the UN that would guide policymaking on women’s rights and economic growth, promoting neoliberal feminist policy at the expense of other forms of gender-based justice.
Focusing on the growth of free-market feminism and girl-focused economic development planning through the relationship between UNICEF and the Nairobi-based NGO FEMNET, Bellows-Blakely reveals how their joint efforts set the blueprints for linked movements of economic development and women’s rights that are still ongoing. Through a narrative of the UNICEF-FEMNET lobbying campaign, Bellows-Blakely shows how multiple, contested girl-focused visions of economic programming and gender justice became selectively erased and coalesced into an approach to global policy centered on the free-market construction and strategic deployment of the African “girl child.”
Girl-focused education programs have long been at the heart of international policymaking—when girls’ access to education is ensured, the thought is, that they are more likely to turn into productive adults who can drive economic growth from below. These ideas combine strands of feminism and austerity capitalism, which, historian Sarah Bellows-Blakely argues, have a specific and understudied origin. In this book, she examines how a doctored study of girls’ education in East and Southern Africa led to the creation of international norms in the UN that would guide policymaking on women’s rights and economic growth, promoting neoliberal feminist policy at the expense of other forms of gender-based justice.
Focusing on the growth of free-market feminism and girl-focused economic development planning through the relationship between UNICEF and the Nairobi-based NGO FEMNET, Bellows-Blakely reveals how their joint efforts set the blueprints for linked movements of economic development and women’s rights that are still ongoing. Through a narrative of the UNICEF-FEMNET lobbying campaign, Bellows-Blakely shows how multiple, contested girl-focused visions of economic programming and gender justice became selectively erased and coalesced into an approach to global policy centered on the free-market construction and strategic deployment of the African “girl child.”
Sarah Bellows-Blakely is a junior research group leader in Gender Studies and Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Introduction
1 Making Girl Power Neoliberal: Erasing Alternative Visions of African Girlhood
2 Pan-African Organizing and the UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi
3 Neoliberal Austerity Births Girl-Focused Economic Development at UNICEF
4 Girls as a Battlefield over Structural Adjustment Programs at FEMNET
5 Crafting International Norms: The Girl Child and the Final UN World Conference on Women
in Beijing
6 Empowering African Girls through Corporate Sponsorships? The Afterlives of the Beijing
Platform for Action
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.5.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83972-9 / 0226839729 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83972-1 / 9780226839721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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