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- Title
What To Wear, What To Wear?: Western Women and Imperialism in Gilgit, Pakistan.
- Authors
Cook, Nancy
- Abstract
In this paper I inaugurate a feminist sociology of imperialism that extends the work of postcolonial scholars interested in explaining how Western women are located in global projects of imperialism. As part of an ethnographic study of the lives of contemporary development workers in Gilgit, northern Pakistan, this analysis describes and theorizes the significance of clothing choices to the formation of Western women's subjectivities and to transcultural power relations in this postcolonial setting. I demonstrate that decisions Western women make about what to wear in Gilgit develop into arenas of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion through processes of identification and differentiation, as clothing styles are used to naturalize power hierarchies between Western and local Muslim women.
- Subjects
GILGIT City (Pakistan); PAKISTAN; IMPERIALISM; FEMINIST theory; MUSLIM women; POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 4, p351
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-005-8363-4