Andrea Cornwall


Andrea Cornwall is a Professor of anthropology and development in the school of global studies at University of Sussex.

Professional career

Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specialises in the anthropology of democracy, citizen participation, participatory research, gender and sexuality.
She has also been engaged in the women's empowerment and women's rights issues. Among the specific topics she has worked on are family planning from a woman's point-of-view; fertility and sexually transmitted diseases in Nigeria and Zimbabwe; rights of sex workers in India, and of domestic workers in Brazil; and the quality of democratic processes in Brazil.
Cornwall is also a Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies, and was the Director of the "Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium", which ran from 2006 through 2014. This programme was funded by UKAid from the Department for International Development and its main aim was to elucidate factors that help create more equality and equity between men and women through collection of women's experiences in this sphere. The programme tried to make the experiences of many individual women visible to teach and inspire others.

Books

Among the books that Cornwall has written are:
Cornwall has been a contributing or primary editor on several books as well:
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