Abstract This article examines the roles played by the wives of Israeli development experts in sub-Saharan Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Literature on international development experts has attended to how ‘portability’ and cross-cultural dexterity facilitated the diffusion and implementation of specific development agendas (Moon and Mehos, 2011). Less attention, however, has been paid to the influence of experts’ spouses, children, extended families and households on motivations to take international postings or on their professional performance in situ. Drawing on feminist insights and approaches to Continue reading → Continue reading →