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Brokering Circular Labour Migration
A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers’ Journey to Switzerland
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies that organise transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers. The book focuses on the emergence of private for-profit home care agencies following the 2011 extension of the Free Movement of …
Reproductive Geographies
Bodies, Places and Politics
Av Marcia England, Maria Fannin m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
740 kr
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The sites, spaces and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales - body, home, local, national, global - and movements across space.This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy and …
Gender, Companionship, and Travel
Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature
Häftad, 2020
793 kr
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Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these …
Climate Change, Gender Roles and Hierarchies
Socioeconomic Transformation in an Ethnic Minority Community in Viet Nam
Av Phuong Ha Pham, Donna L. Doane
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued its self-sufficient way of life in this remote forested mountainous region, but in recent years has been forced to respond to severe …
Intersectional Lives
Chinese Australian Women in White Australia
Av Alanna Kamp
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how …
Intersectional Lives
Chinese Australian Women in White Australia
Av Alanna Kamp
Häftad, 2024
689 kr
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Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how …
Global Black Feminisms
Cross Border Collaboration through an Ethics of Care
Av Andrea N. Baldwin, Tonya Haynes
Inbunden, 2023
2433 kr
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This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.This text not only details how such praxis can be …
Global Black Feminisms
Cross Border Collaboration through an Ethics of Care
Av Andrea N. Baldwin, Tonya Haynes
Häftad, 2024
627 kr
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This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.This text not only details how such praxis can be …
Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare
Women in Coastal Bangladesh
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women’s experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal …
Viva
Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.
Av Sarah A. Radcliffe, Sallie Westwood
Häftad, 1993
500 kr
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Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of `the nation'.
Full Circles
Geographies of Women over the Life Course
Häftad, 1993
849 kr
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Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to …
Different Places, Different Voices
Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Av Vivian Kinnaird, Janet Momsen
Häftad, 1993
849 kr
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Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed by the voices of female geographers from the …
Servicing the Middle Classes
Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
Av Nicky Gregson, Michelle Lowe
Inbunden, 1994
2126 kr
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Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new …
Servicing the Middle Classes
Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
Av Nicky Gregson, Michelle Lowe
Häftad, 1994
617 kr
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Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new …
Women and the Israeli Occupation
The Politics of Change
Av Tamar Mayer
Häftad, 1994
949 kr
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The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at a monumental juncture in their histories. Both have a chance to claim a new future but more than a quarter of a century of occupation has had significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological and moral ramifications for Israeli …
Gender, Work and Space
Av Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt
Inbunden, 1995
3781 kr
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Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the …
Gender, Work and Space
Av Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt
Häftad, 1995
921 kr
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Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the …
Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development
Av Marianne H Marchand, Jane L. Parpart
Inbunden, 1995
3055 kr
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In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development.Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this …
Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development
Av Marianne H Marchand, Jane L. Parpart
Häftad, 1995
921 kr
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In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development.Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this …
Women's Voices from the Rainforest
Inbunden, 1995
2504 kr
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Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.International development policy and its …
Women's Voices from the Rainforest
Häftad, 1995
907 kr
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Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.International development policy and its …
Who Will Mind the Baby?
Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers
Av Kim England
Inbunden, 1996
3055 kr
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One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Child care policy, provision and funding has in no way kept up with this change. Who Will Mind the Baby? explores how working …
Who Will Mind the Baby?
Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers
Av Kim England
Häftad, 1996
921 kr
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One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Child care policy, provision and funding has in no way kept up with this change. Who Will Mind the Baby? explores how working …
Women of the European Union
The Politics of Work and Daily Life
Av Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon, Janice Monk
Inbunden, 1996
3403 kr
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Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States.The authors also analyze how women's work and daily lives are shaped by local …
Feminist Political Ecology
Global Issues and Local Experience
Av Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
3055 kr
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Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City.Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern …
Feminist Political Ecology
Global Issues and Local Experience
Av Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
921 kr
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Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City.Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern …
Women Divided
Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland
Häftad, 1997
921 kr
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The ongoing Irish peace process has renewed interest in the current social and political problems of Northern Ireland. In bringing together the issues of gender and inequality, Women Divided, a title in the International Studies of Women and Place series, offers new perspectives on women's rights …
Gender, Planning and Human Rights
Av Tovi Fenster
Häftad, 1998
921 kr
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Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these …
Gender, Planning and Human Rights
Av Tovi Fenster
Inbunden, 1998
3055 kr
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Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these …
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
Inbunden, 1999
3055 kr
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This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including:* legal and empowerment issues* cultural and language diversities and barriers* the impact of live-in employment.The book features case studies taken from Europe, South and …
