Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

by Sarah A. Radcliffe

Book Overview

In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies's inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360101
• ISBN13: 9780822360100
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"