EXPRESS: Gaslighting and dispelling: Experiences of NGO workers in navigating gendered corruption

How does corruption adopt gendered guises and how do women combat it in practice? Theorising from the basis of a 30-month ethnography within women’s NGO, article proposes gaslighting as way interpreting corruption, due to its elusive but pernicious nature. Gaslighting is posited deployment tactics make doubt their sanity means securing personal advantage. triggers embodied forms struggle, offers notion dispelling denoting persistent, patient reiterative counter-practice NGO practitioners assert democratic norms liberty equality. The provides rich empirical insight both into enacted through citing patriarchal such are contested bodies practitioners. These insights important at time when governments globally claim gender equality while undermining practice.