Girls in Global Development
Figurations of Gendered Power
Published on 8. December 2023
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-1-80539-177-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection is a well-imagined, important, incisive contribution to the fields of girlhood studies, development studies, and gender studies that deftly exposes the contradictions, complications, and limits of the "Girls in Development" paradigm and the ways it shapes the current landscape of development and thus the lives of girls around the world." * Jessica Taft, University of California Santa CruzMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 3 Figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80539-177-7 (9781805391777)
DOI
10.3167/9781805391777
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Heather Switzer | Karishma Desai | Emily Bent
Girls in Global Development
Figurations of Gendered Power
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€19.49
Available for download
Heather Switzer | Karishma Desai | Emily Bent
Girls in Global Development
Figurations of Gendered Power
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€19.49
Available for download
Persons
Heather Switzer is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her work has been published in Girlhood Studies, Feminist Theory, Feminist Formations, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and Gender Issues. She is co-editor of the Transnational Girlhoods book series published by Berghahn Books.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Girls in Development: Discovering Girls, Producing Girl Effects
Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily Bent
Chapter 1. Human Capital Theory and Girlhoods in Development
Sydney Calkin
Chapter 2. Girls as New Frontiers: Corporatized Development and the Politics of Investing in Girls
Kathryn Moeller
Chapter 3. Teaching Aspirant Feminism to Girls in Development: A View from Urban Uganda
Erin Moore
Chapter 4. "Where the Change Starts": NGO Activists and the Political Economy of Girls' Education in Malawi
Rachel Silver
Chapter 5. Gendered Extractions: Women Teachers Implementing Girl-Focused Policy in Malawi
Alyssa Morley
Chapter 6. "Give girls a chance to participate in developing the country": Cambodian Schoolgirls (Re)negotiate the Status of Girls
Tracy Rogers
Chapter 7. Whose Voice? Whose Freedom?: Beyonce and Girl-Centered Development Campaigns
Virginia Caputo
Chapter 8. When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and "Developing" the "Developed" World
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Girls in Development: Discovering Girls, Producing Girl Effects
Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily Bent
Chapter 1. Human Capital Theory and Girlhoods in Development
Sydney Calkin
Chapter 2. Girls as New Frontiers: Corporatized Development and the Politics of Investing in Girls
Kathryn Moeller
Chapter 3. Teaching Aspirant Feminism to Girls in Development: A View from Urban Uganda
Erin Moore
Chapter 4. "Where the Change Starts": NGO Activists and the Political Economy of Girls' Education in Malawi
Rachel Silver
Chapter 5. Gendered Extractions: Women Teachers Implementing Girl-Focused Policy in Malawi
Alyssa Morley
Chapter 6. "Give girls a chance to participate in developing the country": Cambodian Schoolgirls (Re)negotiate the Status of Girls
Tracy Rogers
Chapter 7. Whose Voice? Whose Freedom?: Beyonce and Girl-Centered Development Campaigns
Virginia Caputo
Chapter 8. When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and "Developing" the "Developed" World
Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah