gender and women’s issues across north-south divides
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jong, Sara de
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- ngo's, ontwikkelingsbeleid, migratie, postkolonialisme, witte vrouwen, etniciteit, feminisme
- Description
- NGOs headquartered in the North have been prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation and labor exploitation that affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs focusing on women's rights have been successful in attracting attention to their causes, but critics argue that the highly educated elites from the global North and South who run them fail to question the power hierarchies in which they operate. De Jong interviewed women NGO workers in seven different European countries about their experiences and perspectives on working on gendered issues affecting women in the global South as well as migrant women in the global North.