Gender, Power, and Non-Governance - Is Female to Male As Ngo Is to State?

Using Sherry Ortner's analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power. The chapters in this volume present diverse analyses of the ways in which projects of governance both reproduce and challenge binaries.

About the author

Andria D. Timmer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Christopher Newport University. Her book Educating the Hungarian Roma: Nongovernmental Organization and Minority Rights (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), explores NGO work to desegregate the Hungarian education system for the Hungarian Roma.

Elizabeth Wirtz is a Qualitative Analyst in the Center for Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Iowa City, IA. She serves as Senior Co-Chair of the Gender Based Violence Topical Interest Group of the Society for Applied Anthropology and as the Special Interest Group Membership Coordinator for the Society for Medical Anthropology.

Product details

• Authors: Andria D. Wirtz Timmer
• Assisted by: Andria D. Timmer (Editor), Timmer Andria D. (Editor), Elizabeth Wirtz (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781800734609
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-460-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, SDG 5