Missionaries and Mandarins
Feminist engagement with development institutions
$73.28
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 December 1998
Summary
This book examines the various strategies of engagement employed by women working to transform the bureaucratic structures of state organizations, multilateral institutions and NGOs to make them more gender-equitable. These strategies involve combining the task of pursuing transformative agendas from within bureaucracies - of being ‘missionaries’ - while adapting to the techniques and practices of the bureaucracy as a ‘mandarin’ would have to do. The contributors examine struggles not only at…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853394348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853394343 |
| Author: | Carol Miller |
| Publisher: | Practical Action Publishing |
| Imprint: | Practical Action Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 1998 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 150mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Carol Miller
JIMI ADESINA is Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. He received his education at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the University of Warwick, UK, where he obtained his PhD. His teaching and research interests include labour and development studies, social theory, methodology, and social policy.
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