Andrea Cornwall is Pro-Director Research & Enterprise at SOAS and Professor of Global Development and Anthropology. She is a political anthropologist who specialises in the study of democratic innovation, citizen engagement, participatory research, gender justice and sexual rights. Her research focuses on power, inclusion and rights, and includes work with domestic and sex worker rights movements in Brazil and India, reproductive and sexual health in Zimbabwe and Nigeria, citizen participation and accountability in health policy and governance in the UK, Nigeria and Brazil, and on contestations over gender, empowerment and rights in international policy arenas.
Publications
Beyond “Empowerment Lite”: Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice.
Cornwall, Andrea (2017). In: Alvarez, Sonia E., (eds.), Rubin, Jeffrey W., (eds.), Thayer, Millie, (eds.), Baiocchi, Gianpaolo, (eds.) and Laó-Montes, Agustín, (eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America. Durham; London: Duke University Press, pp 63-80
Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference
Cornwall, Andrea (2012). In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.), The SAGE handbook of social anthropology. Los Angeles: SAGE/Association of Social Anthropologists, pp 378-387
To be a man is more than a day's work: Shifting ideals of manliness in Ado-Odo, S W Nigeria
Cornwall, Andrea (2003). In: Lindsay, Lisa A, (eds.) and Miescher, Stephan F, (eds.), Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa. Princeton, USA: Heinemann, pp 230-248
Wayward women and useless men: contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo
Cornwall, Andrea (2001). In: Hodgson, Dorothy L, (eds.) and McCurdy, Sheryl A, (eds.), Wicked Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann
