Outside, Looking In: Memoir of an Unrepentant Feminist

Born amid the upheaval of war-time London, Caroline Moser went on to become a ground-breaking feminist anthropologist.In this memoir she explores the beginnings of her outsider roots through her grandmothers, a fearless Boer War nurse, and a caring Quaker.She charts her journey, from childhood under apartheid in 1950s Cape Town to documenting political oppression in 1960s South America, making TV films about Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro.Living with her two young sons in a bamboo house in an Ecuadorian slum alongside local women, consolidated her feminist identity.Working in academia and as a trainer, was when she invented gender planning, a feminist framework still used by development practitioners today.Moser’s swan song came in Washington DC in the 1990s at the World Bank where she challenged conventional orthodoxy on the impact of their economic policies on poverty and gender inequalities.Caroline Moser always felt an outsider, looking in, as she fought the challenges confronting w