Girls in Global Development

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Girls in Global Development is written by Heather Switzer and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805394126 (ISBN 10) and 9781805394129 (ISBN 13).

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.