Girls in Global Development

Figurations of Gendered Power

Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, Emily Bent (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-177-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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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?: Beyoncé and Girl-Centered Development Campaigns

Virginia Caputo

Chapter 8. When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and “Developing” the “Developed” World

Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Transnational Girlhoods
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-177-1 / 1805391771
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-177-7 / 9781805391777
Zustand	Neuware