Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Andria D. Timmer, Christopher Loy, and Elizabeth Wirtz

Part I: Patterns of Reproduction: NGO and State Relations Through a Gendered Lens

Chapter 1. NGOs and States of Aging: NGO as Male/Culture Advocates and as Female/Nature Caregivers
Alexandra Crampton

Chapter 2. Surviving the State: Strategic Essentialism and the Complexities of Indigeneity Among the Ainu of Northern Japan
Christopher Loy

Chapter 3. From “Warm and Fuzzy” to “Business Oriented” Practices:” The Politics of Exclusion and Masculinization of Alternative Justice in the United States
Amanda J. Reinke

Part II: Care Work as Feminized Work

Chapter 4. From Stranger to Neighbor: Women’s Voluntarism as Feminist Caring Politics Against Australia's Hostile Borders
Tess Altman

Chapter 5. Rural Women’s Self-determination and Grassroots Resistance Movement: Reclaiming Land and Traditional Livelihoods in Odisha
Smita Mishra Panda and Annapurna Devi Pandey

Chapter 6. Neglectful Fathers and Mothers who Mean Well: Love and Hate of Hungarian Roma “Children”
Andria D. Timmer

Chapter 7. En/gendering Aixin: Philanthropy and Gendered Practice of Compassion in Post-socialist China
Yang Zhan

Part III: Beyond the Binary: Intersectionality and Queer Spaces in NGOs

Chapter 8. “Little Dear Mothers:” Governing the “Republic of NGOs”
Mark Schuller

Chapter 9. Identity and the Construction of Trans Citizenship in Guatemala
Alejandra Wundram Pimentel

Chapter 10. To Foresee the Unforeseeable: LGBT and Feminist Civil Society and the Question of Feminine Desire
Tamar Shirinian

Conclusion: Queering the NGO/State Binary: On Governing Stateless Peoples
Elizabeth Wirtz

Index

About the Author

Andria D. Timmer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Christopher Newport University. Her book Educating the Hungarian Roma: Nongovernmental Organization and Minority Rights (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), explores NGO work to desegregate the Hungarian education system for the Hungarian Roma.

Reviews

“Overall, in my view this is an original and thoughtful contribution to the growing literature on the anthropology of NGOs, containing lots of new and original work - much of it by young scholars in the field.” • David Lewis, London School of Economics “Focusing on the gendered nature of NGO-state relationships it offers a wide spectrum of case studies covering all regions of the world. Diversity is an important asset of the volume: diversity of countries-from different regions, of different sizes, from different type of states (weak or strong), but also diversity of types of NGOs analyzed, diversity of topics proposed.” • Laura Grünberg, University of Bucharest