Overview

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.

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Author:   Heather Switzer ,  Karishma Desai ,  Emily Bent
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391777

ISBN 10:   1805391771
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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?: Beyoncé and Girl-Centered Development Campaigns Virginia Caputo Chapter 8. When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and “Developing” the “Developed” World Anuppiriya Sriskandarajah

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“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 Cruz

Author Information

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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