Carolina Matos is senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Culture and the Creative Industries at the City, University of London and visiting associate professor in the School of Communications at the University of Miami.
This book makes an important contribution to a range of areas, bringing together debates across gender and development, feminist theory and praxis in development, communication and media analysis, international development, sexual and reproductive health rights, and social justice. I strongly recommend this book for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the field. Suzanne Clisby, Coventry University This fascinating work combines intellectual traditions, with practical examples and critical empirical approaches. It is the first book, in a long time, that provides both a theoretical and empirical critique from a feminist perspective, of the field of communication for development. Carolina Matos exposes, using a range of research methods including critical discourse analysis, the problems, difficulties and challenges of the practices that characterise the work of NGOs, especially when they work towards the 'emancipation of women'. Linje Manyozo, RMIT University