Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women's Issues Across North-South Divides

by Sara De Jong

Book Overview

NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally 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 effectively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019005588X
• ISBN13: 9780190055882
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"