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Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism
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Description for Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism
Hardback. Examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. This book brings together feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Editor(s): Bernal, Victoria; Grewal, Inderpal. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPWH; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power, interrogate the relationships of nongovernmental organizations to states and to privatization, and map the complex, ambiguous, and ultimately unstable synergies between ... Read more
Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power, interrogate the relationships of nongovernmental organizations to states and to privatization, and map the complex, ambiguous, and ultimately unstable synergies between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822355519
SKU
V9780822355519
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About Victoria
Victoria Bernal is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship and Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. Inderpal Grewal is Chair of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Transnational America: Feminisms, ... Read more
Reviews for Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism
“Theorizing NGOs offers timely and insightful perspectives on the intersection between NGOs, women’s experiences of NGOs and feminism across the world. Bringing together scholarly writings on women’s experiences with NGOs from different parts of the globe is definitely one of the highlights of the volume. . . . This volume is a must read for anyone interested in gender and ... Read more