Description: Explores gender relations in Muslim societies, using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study.
Brief description:
Colette Harris is a researcher specialising in gender and development, with particular interests in family relations, sexuality and domestic violence. She is currently program director, women in international development at the Office of International Research, Education and Development of Virginia Tech University in the States.
Review Quotes:
'I am deeply impressed. This is a solid, original ethnography from a little studied part of the world' - Thomas Eriksen
'Colette is an amazing person and I cannot imagine how she did the work she reports on' - Professor Janet Momsen, Dept of Human & Community Development, Uni of California