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Girls, Power and International Development - (Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics) by Rosie Walters (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the Global North to see themselves as the saviours of their Southern counterparts.
- About the Author: Rosie Walters is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.
- 240 Pages
- Political Science, International Relations
- Series Name: Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics
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Book Synopsis
The United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the Global North to see themselves as the saviours of their Southern counterparts.
Drawing on focus groups with Girl Up members from the UK, US and Malawi, this book demonstrates how girls reflect critically on the Girl Up discourse, reject its individualistic vision of girls' empowerment and interact with their Northern/Southern counterparts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect. Its analysis demonstrates how the girls use participation in the campaign to develop their own more complex, radical and collective visions of girls' empowerment.
Review Quotes
'Walters provides an original and sophisticated analysis of the girlpowering of international development that substantially advances debates across a range of fields and makes for essential reading.' Adrienne Roberts, The University of Manchester
About the Author
Rosie Walters is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.