When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia

by Donna F. Murdock

In When Women Have Wings, Donna F. Murdock provides an insightful and detailed look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments apparent in a women's development project in Medell n, Colombia. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic field research in a working-class women's community center run by a local feminist NGO, this in-depth account illuminates both working- and middle-class women's perspectives on the professionalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050354
• ISBN13: 9780472050352
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"