Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals

Anne Coles is a Research Associate at the International Gender Studies Centre in the Department of International Development, Oxford University. She edited, together with Tina Wallace, Gender, Water and Development (2005). Anne-Meike Fechter is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex. Her publications include Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (2007).

"...This is indeed an important and essential work for those interested in the anthropology of development, and I recommend it highly."- Frank A. Salamone, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• Introduction Anne Coles and Anne-Meike Fechter 1. The Shell Ladies’ Project: Making and Remaking Home Leonie Gordon 2. Shopping for a Hypernational Home: How Expatriate Women in Kathmandu Labour to Assuage Fear Heather Hindman 3. Travelling Together?: Work, Intimacy and Home Amongst British Expatriate Couples in Dubai Katie Walsh 4. The German School in London, UK: Fostering the Next Generation of National Cosmopolitans? Fiona Moore 5. Moving Experiences: Responses to Relocation among British Military Wives Sue Jervis 6. Making Multiple Migrations: The Life of British Diplomatic Families Overseas Anne Coles 7. Becoming a Feminist in Aidland Rosalind Eyben 8. At Work and at Play in the ‘Fishbowl’: Gender Relations and Social Reproduction Among Development Expatriates in Madagascar Ritu Verma 9. From ‘Incorporated Wives’ to ‘Expat Girls’: A New Generation of Expatriate Women? Anne-Meike Fechter 10. ‘Coming to China Changed my Life’: Gender Roles and Relations among Single British Migrants Katie D. Willis and Brenda S.A. Yeoh