Description

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Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls' potential to multiply investment, interrupt intergenerational poverty, and predict economic growth. Girls in Global Development presents case studies from established and emerging scholars to collectively theorize and examine the concept of "Girls in Development" (GID), a distinctive way of approaching notions of girls and girlhoods in locations around the globe, at various points in history, through a critical feminist lens.

About the Author

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Emily Bent is Associate Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at Pace University. She has worked with feminist nonprofit organizations for over a decade, including as Co-Chair of the Working Group on Girls (WGG) at the United Nations from 2013 until 2016. Most recently, she was a member of the WGG's Board of Trustees.