Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Corporatized Development
1. The Girl Effect as Apparatus
2. The Historical Rise of the Girl Effect
3. The Spectacle of Empowering Girls and Women
4. Searching for Third World Potential
5. Proving the Girl Effect
6. Negotiating Corporatized Development

Conclusion: Accelerating and Freeing the Girl Effect
Sources to Timeline of Nike, Inc. and Nike Foundation History and Public Response
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Kathryn Moeller is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also affiliated with the Gender & Women's Studies, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies departments at the university.

Reviews

“A sobering and thought-provoking examination of something many of us have taken for granted: the unquestioned benefit and feminist appeal of the Girl Effect model.”
*Philanthropy News Digest*

"The book is especially interesting for researchers involved in ethnography, feminism, corporate policy making, charitable giving, and the role of capitalism in enhancing and hurting worker conditions."
*CHOICE*

"Every now and then, a book comes along that has the potential to widen the compass and shift the terms of debate in a research field in a decisive manner. Kathryn Moeller’s The Gender Effect is precisely such a book for the field of global development studies, and especially for critical research on the politics of gender, poverty, and development. . . . the book should be widely read and vigorously discussed as a source of crucial insights into how philanthrocapitalism works to disarm radical political projects, and what can and must be done to avoid this."
*Community Development Journal*