Gender in a Global/Local World – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Gender in a Global/Local World. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
87 produkter
Gender and Island Communities
Av Firouz Gaini, Helene Pristed Nielsen
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis.Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on …
Gender Transitions Along Borders
The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups; experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social inequality and violence. This situation is …
Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation
Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future
Av Joyce P. Kaufman, Kristen P. Williams
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the …
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities
Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture
Av Andy Carolin
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within …
Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains
Av Jane L. Parpart, Swati Parashar
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a …
Class, Gender and Migration
Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis
Av María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007.Based …
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities
Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture
Av Andy Carolin
Häftad, 2022
799 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within …
When Care Work Goes Global
Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work
Av Mary Romero, Valerie Preston m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the …
Transnational Ruptures
Gender and Forced Migration
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage …
Waging Gendered Wars
U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground combat positions within the U.S. armed …
No Place for a War Baby
The Global Politics of Children born of Wartime Sexual Violence
Av Donna Seto
Häftad, 2020
584 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery. The focus on children born of wartime sexual violence questions the framework of understanding war and recognizes that certain individuals are often …
Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces
Av Belinda Leach, Barbara Pini
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes …
Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
Av Marian Sawer, Melissa Haussman
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored their gender impact. For the first time, this …
Politicization of Sexual Violence
From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping
Häftad, 2020
584 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an …
Development in an Insecure and Gendered World
The Relevance of the Millennium Goals
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women. The most relevant …
Empowering Migrant Women
Why Agency and Rights are not Enough
Av Leah Briones
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, …
Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico
Av Teresa Healy
Häftad, 2020
475 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order. She analyzes how working class men organized to fight for the recognition of their citizenship rights, how they defended those …
Encountering the Transnational
Women, Islam and the Politics of Interpretation
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? Addressing this question, Meena Sharify-Funk encountered women activists and intellectuals in North America, the …
Price of Gender Equality
Member States and Governance in the European Union
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This thoroughly researched, well-documented book presents a theoretically guided empirical analysis of developing and implementing gender equality policies in the European Union (EU). In spite of a wealth of research, many questions have long remained unanswered and these are addressed here. The …
'Innocent Women and Children'
Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians
Häftad, 2020
584 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in …
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict
The Coloniality of Violence
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights.The author argues that the key to understanding …
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict
The Coloniality of Violence
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights.The author argues that the key to understanding …
Contours of Citizenship
Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship
Av Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Evangelia Tastsoglou m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In an increasingly globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. At the same time, with the rise of neo-liberalism, welfare state retrenchment, decline of state employment, …
Women, Migration and Citizenship
Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
Av Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Evangelia Tastsoglou
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and …
Setting the Agenda for Global Peace
Conflict and Consensus Building
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women. This book traces the …
Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico
Av Teresa Healy
Inbunden, 2008
1530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order. She analyzes how working class men organized to fight for the recognition of their citizenship rights, how they defended those …
Vulnerable Bodies
Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies. In this book Erin Baines uses the examples of Bosnia, …
Transnational Ruptures
Gender and Forced Migration
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage …
(Un)thinking Citizenship
Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
Av Amanda Gouws
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of …
Women, Migration and Citizenship
Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
Av Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Evangelia Tastsoglou
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and …
