Dilemmas of DifferenceIn Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policiess inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to