Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, where she is also a research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. In 2015 she was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World by the Filipina Women's Network. She is the author of Pinay on the Prairies; editor of Feminism and Migration, and Gender and Rural Migration; and co-editor of Canadian Perspectives in Immigration in Small Cities, Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life, and Gender Religion and Migration.

International contributors in a variety of disciplines, including kinesiology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, gender studies, and criminology, reflect on gender and feminism in Canada and in other parts of the world. Chapters are in sections on negotiations for equality in contested spaces, policies on inclusion and equity, reproductive labor and economy, health and violence, and sports and bodies. A global synthesis is presented for each of the five themes, looking at general trends and prospects for change. Some specific subjects addressed include feminist perspectives among religious women in Canada, citizenship and gender in Nepal, and gender inequality in Swedish legislation of Sami reindeer herding. Other subjects are Filipino migrant hotel workers in rural Manitoba, women mineworkers in South Africa, and contraceptive side effects and Kassena women in Northern Ghana.

• Introduction; Glenda Tibe BonifacioPart One: Movements, Spaces and Right   1. Knitting the Feminist Self: Craftivism, Yarn-Bombing and the Navigation of Feminist Spaces; Sonja Boon and Beth Pentney 2. Emergence of Intersectional Activist Feminism in Brazil: The Interplay of Local and Global Contexts; Marlise Matos and Solange Simões 3. Countering Renewed Patriarchal Commitments in the Institutional Catholic Church: Feminist Perspectives among Women Religious in Canada; Christine Gervais and Amanda Watson  Part Two: Inclusion, Equity and Policies 4. Preserving Patriarchy: Birthright, Citizenship and Gender in Nepal; Jill Allison  5. Gender Inequality in Swedish Legislation of Sámi Reindeer Herding; Ebba Olofsson 6. Turkish Divorcees and Need for Woman-Friendly Policies; Aylin Akpinar 7. Gender Equality Education and Media Literacy: Primary Prevention Strategies in New Zealand; Panteá Farvid Part Three: Reproductive Labour, Work and Economy 8. Child Care and Feminism in Canada; Lisa Pasolli 9. Service Work as Reproductive Labor: A Feminist Political Economy of Filipino Migrant Hotel Workers in Rural Manitoba; Catherine Bryan 10. Endemic Sexism in the Canadian Workplace: Systematic Support for Sexual Aggression Against Female Workers; Ada L. Sinacore and Barbara A. Morningstar  11. Excluded while Included: Women Mineworkers in South Africa’s Platinum Mines; Asanda Benya Part Four: Health, Culture and Violence 12. The Gender of Pregnancy; Michelle Walks  13. "It Doesn't Match My Blood": Contraceptive Side Effects and Kassena Women in Northern Ghana; Lauren Wallace 14. Problematizing Fertility Decline without Women's Empowerment in Turkey; Miki Suzuki Him 15. Intimate Partner Violence and Poverty: Malaysian Indian Women in Penang, Malaysia; Premalatha Karupiah and Parthiban S. Gopal 16. Becoming a 'Real Man' is a Feminist Issue; Sigal Oppenhaim-Shachar Part Five: Sports and Bodies 17. Ghostly (Dis)Appearances: Sport, Gender and Feminism in Canada; Carly Adams and Jason Laurendau 18. Physical Education in Israel: Teachers' Talk of Girl Bodies; Ornit Ramati and Orly Benjamin 19. Basketball Diary; Jocelyn Thorpe