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Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods
Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained
AvWendy Harcourt,Wendy Harcourt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.
Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:
Understanding Shakti
AvP. Obeng
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.
Under Development: Gender
AvC. Verschuur,I. Guérinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
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Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.
Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia
AvM. Alston
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.
Journey into Women's Studies
Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
AvR. Pande
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
Financing for Gender Equality
Realising Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting
AvZohra Khan,Nalini Burn
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 841 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public budgetary policies, systems and processes, the contributions to this volume explore the chequered trajectories of these efforts in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Andalucía. Critiquing systems of finance, from adherence to neo-liberal macroeconomic fundamentals which prioritise fiscal austerity, the book makes a compelling case for reframing and re-prioritizing budgets to comply with human rights standards, with a particular view to realizing women’s rights. The authors highlight the paltry funding for women’s rights organizations and movements and examine the prospects for making financing gender responsive. The specific policy, strategy and technical recommendations and the connections across silos which articulate the authors’ suggested operational levers will appeal to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, gender equality and human rights activists alike.
Bodies in Resistance
Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
AvWendy Harcourt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change. In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples’ rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe.
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
AvLiu Jieyu
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women’s subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.
Gender Equality and Development After Violent Conflict
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq
AvKatherine Ranharter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the effects of gender-inclusive policies deployed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in the areas of politics, the economy and education on the region and its people.
Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods
Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained
AvWendy Harcourt
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.
Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:
Understanding Shakti
AvP. Obeng
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.
Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia
AvM. Alston
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.
Journey into Women's Studies
Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
AvR. Pande
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
Financing for Gender Equality
Realising Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting
AvZohra Khan,Nalini Burn
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
1 841 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public budgetary policies, systems and processes, the contributions to this volume explore the chequered trajectories of these efforts in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Andalucía. Critiquing systems of finance, from adherence to neo-liberal macroeconomic fundamentals which prioritise fiscal austerity, the book makes a compelling case for reframing and re-prioritizing budgets to comply with human rights standards, with a particular view to realizing women’s rights. The authors highlight the paltry funding for women’s rights organizations and movements and examine the prospects for making financing gender responsive. The specific policy, strategy and technical recommendations and the connections across silos which articulate the authors’ suggested operational levers will appeal to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, gender equality and human rights activists alike.
Bodies in Resistance
Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
AvWendy Harcourt
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change. In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples’ rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe.
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
AvLiu Jieyu
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women’s subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.
Women, Urbanization and Sustainability
Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
AvAnita Lacey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 301 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women’s experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.
Women, Urbanization and Sustainability
Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
AvAnita Lacey
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 301 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women’s experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.
Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice
Transformative Approaches in Post-Conflict Settings
AvRita Shackel,Lucy Fiske
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 301 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially important given the disappointing progress made to date in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades. With contributions from both academics and practitioners working at national and international levels, this work integrates theory and practice, examining both global problems and highly contextual case studies including Kenya, Somalia, Peru, Afghanistan and DRC. The contributors aim to provide a comprehensive and compelling argument for the need to fundamentally rethink global approaches to gender justice.
Gender, Democracy and Institutional Development in Africa
AvNjoki Nathani Wane
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
708 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses. It offers a discursive framework on ways to examine the conceptualizations of African social development and a critical discourse on debunking the misconceptions that are attached to African location in the global arena. The volume challenges the danger of minimizing and oversimplifying the role of Africa in the international space. This will be ideal for researchers, students and scholars in the areas of African and gender studies, development, politics and education.
Women and Sustainable Human Development
Empowering Women in Africa
AvMaty Konte,Nyasha Tirivayi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 517 kr
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This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to – and quality of – education, maternal and reproductive health, unpaid care and women’s labor market participation, financial inclusion and women’s political participation. Cross cutting issues such as migration, masculinities and social norms are also addressed in this volume, which is aimed at policy makers, academics, and indeed anyone else interested in the UN Sustainable Development Goal of the empowerment of women and girls.
Women and Sustainable Human Development
Empowering Women in Africa
AvMaty Konte,Nyasha Tirivayi
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
1 517 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to – and quality of – education, maternal and reproductive health, unpaid care and women’s labor market participation, financial inclusion and women’s political participation. Cross cutting issues such as migration, masculinities and social norms are also addressed in this volume, which is aimed at policy makers, academics, and indeed anyone else interested in the UN Sustainable Development Goal of the empowerment of women and girls.
War-Time Care Work and Peacebuilding in Africa
The Forgotten One
AvFatma Osman Ibnouf
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
816 kr
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This book provides a nuanced understanding of an often neglected aspect of armed conflicts, namely the everyday structures that sustain lives during crises and, specifically, care-work performed by women. It showcases the work of women as key protagonists and stresses their role as knowledge producers in studies of conflict. The author brings an original voice to the literature on women in conflict and peace-building showing the unpaid and less visible care-work that women do in the context of conflict and post-conflict and peacebuilding in Africa.
War-Time Care Work and Peacebuilding in Africa
The Forgotten One
AvFatma Osman Ibnouf
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
816 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book provides a nuanced understanding of an often neglected aspect of armed conflicts, namely the everyday structures that sustain lives during crises and, specifically, care-work performed by women. It showcases the work of women as key protagonists and stresses their role as knowledge producers in studies of conflict. The author brings an original voice to the literature on women in conflict and peace-building showing the unpaid and less visible care-work that women do in the context of conflict and post-conflict and peacebuilding in Africa.
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa
AvAwino Okech
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 409 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge the ballot box as the only legitimate means of ensuring freedom. Drawing on case studies from seven African countries, the contributors focus on specific political moments in their respective countries to offer insights into how the state/society social contract is contested through informal channels, and how political power functions to counteract citizen’s voices. These contributions offer a different way of thinking about state-building and structural change that goes beyond the system-based approaches that dominate scholarship on democratization and political structures. In effect, it provides a basisfor organizers and social movements to consider how to build solidarity beyond influencing government institutions.Chapters 3, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa
AvAwino Okech
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 409 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge the ballot box as the only legitimate means of ensuring freedom. Drawing on case studies from seven African countries, the contributors focus on specific political moments in their respective countries to offer insights into how the state/society social contract is contested through informal channels, and how political power functions to counteract citizen’s voices. These contributions offer a different way of thinking about state-building and structural change that goes beyond the system-based approaches that dominate scholarship on democratization and political structures. In effect, it provides a basisfor organizers and social movements to consider how to build solidarity beyond influencing government institutions.Chapters 3, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
AvCecilia Macón,Mariela Solanam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 625 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America. Considering the complex and even contradictory social processes that the region is experiencing today, many Latin American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new possibilities for the future. This tendency has shown such a specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that it compels us to focus more deeply on its own arguments, methods, and critical contributions. This volume features essays that explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding of, gender, sexuality and politics.
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
AvCecilia Macón,Mariela Solanam. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
1 625 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America. Considering the complex and even contradictory social processes that the region is experiencing today, many Latin American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new possibilities for the future. This tendency has shown such a specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that it compels us to focus more deeply on its own arguments, methods, and critical contributions. This volume features essays that explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding of, gender, sexuality and politics.
Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy
Latin America and India
AvChristine Verschuur,Isabelle Guérinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 625 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redefine the meaning of work and value; explore new ways of doing economics and politics; construct solidarity-driven social relationships and combat their subordination. In doing so, these initiatives challenge the patriarchal, financialized and dehumanizing capitalist system and offer transformative, sustainable paths for feminist social change. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographies in Latin America and India, this book sheds light on women’s daily struggles, their difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and also their successes and achievements. This book seeks to inspire activists, researchers and policy-makers in the field of feminism and solidarity economy to contribute to amplifying the movement, which rests on the articulation of the various initiatives.
Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy
Latin America and India
AvChristine Verschuur,Isabelle Guérinm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
1 625 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redefine the meaning of work and value; explore new ways of doing economics and politics; construct solidarity-driven social relationships and combat their subordination. In doing so, these initiatives challenge the patriarchal, financialized and dehumanizing capitalist system and offer transformative, sustainable paths for feminist social change. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographies in Latin America and India, this book sheds light on women’s daily struggles, their difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and also their successes and achievements. This book seeks to inspire activists, researchers and policy-makers in the field of feminism and solidarity economy to contribute to amplifying the movement, which rests on the articulation of the various initiatives.

Gender, Development and Social Change – serie

Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:

Under Development: Gender

Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

Journey into Women's Studies

Financing for Gender Equality

Bodies in Resistance

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Gender Equality and Development After Violent Conflict

Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:

Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

Journey into Women's Studies

Financing for Gender Equality

Bodies in Resistance

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Women, Urbanization and Sustainability

Women, Urbanization and Sustainability

Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice

Gender, Democracy and Institutional Development in Africa

Women and Sustainable Human Development

Women and Sustainable Human Development

War-Time Care Work and Peacebuilding in Africa

War-Time Care Work and Peacebuilding in Africa

Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa

Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy