1st Edition
Intimate Colonialism Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work
By Laurie L Charlés
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Laurie Charlés finished her Ph.D., then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. But that was not all that was enmeshed. Charlés found love, sexual fulfillment, sexual harassment, and gender... Read more
* Introduction* Chapter One: A Question of Mentalite* Chapter Two: The Little Things That Matter* Chapter Three: One of the Crowd* Chapter Four: Back in the World of Ideas* Chapter Five: Lust, Passion, and Tactical Adoration* Chapter Six: A Change of Future* Chapter Seven: Sex, Love, and Other Demanding Parasites* Chapter Eight: Diplomacy au Village* Chapter Nine: Togo Post-Script* Chapter Ten: Constructing an Intimate Text* References
Biography
Laurie L Charlés is assistant professor in the family therapy program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Graduate College of Education. She has a Ph.D. in family therapy from Nova Southeatern University, then served in the Peace Corps in Togo. She is author of a book on hostage negotiations as well as numerous scholarly articles.
