Gender, Power, and Non-Governance: Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?

by Andria D. Timmer (Editor), Elizabeth Wirtz (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800734609
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	05/13/2022
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.87(d)

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Andria D. Timmer, Christopher Loy, and Elizabeth Wirtz

Part I: Patterns of Reproduction: NGO and State Relations Through a Gendered Lens

Chapter 1. NGOs and States of Aging: NGO as Male/Culture Advocates and as Female/Nature Caregivers
Alexandra Crampton

Chapter 2. Surviving the State: Strategic Essentialism and the Complexities of Indigeneity Among the Ainu of Northern Japan
Christopher Loy

Chapter 3. From “Warm and Fuzzy” to “Business Oriented” Practices:” The Politics of Exclusion and Masculinization of Alternative Justice in the United States
Amanda J. Reinke

Part II: Care Work as Feminized Work

Chapter 4. From Stranger to Neighbor: Women’s Voluntarism as Feminist Caring Politics Against Australia's Hostile Borders
Tess Altman

Chapter 5. Rural Women’s Self-determination and Grassroots Resistance Movement: Reclaiming Land and Traditional Livelihoods in Odisha
Smita Mishra Panda and Annapurna Devi Pandey

Chapter 6. Neglectful Fathers and Mothers who Mean Well: Love and Hate of Hungarian Roma “Children”
Andria D. Timmer

Chapter 7. En/gendering Aixin: Philanthropy and Gendered Practice of Compassion in Post-socialist China
Yang Zhan

Part III: Beyond the Binary: Intersectionality and Queer Spaces in NGOs

Chapter 8. “Little Dear Mothers:” Governing the “Republic of NGOs”
Mark Schuller

Chapter 9. Identity and the Construction of Trans Citizenship in Guatemala
Alejandra Wundram Pimentel

Chapter 10. To Foresee the Unforeseeable: LGBT and Feminist Civil Society and the Question of Feminine Desire
Tamar Shirinian

Conclusion: Queering the NGO/State Binary: On Governing Stateless Peoples
Elizabeth Wirtz

Index

Editorial Reviews

“Overall, in my view this is an original and thoughtful contribution to the growing literature on the anthropology of NGOs, containing lots of new and original work - much of it by young scholars in the field.” • David Lewis, London School of Economics

“Focusing on the gendered nature of NGO-state relationships it offers a wide spectrum of case studies covering all regions of the world. Diversity is an important asset of the volume: diversity of countries-from different regions, of different sizes, from different type of states (weak or strong), but also diversity of types of NGOs analyzed, diversity of topics proposed.” • Laura Grünberg, University of Bucharest

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