Outside, Looking In

Memoir of an Unrepentant Feminist
The memoir of a woman who has grappled with the inordinate challenges of successfully making it in a professional mans world. It provides visionary insights for generations of development feminists, theorists and practitioners who have read and endorsed the authors revolutionary gender planning framework.

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 an