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  • - Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
     
    1 362,-

    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.

  • av Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin & Isabelle Hillenkamp
    1 777,-

  • av Maryse Helbert
    806,-

  • - Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections
     
    1 340,-

    This book will be a valuable resource and asset to early career researchers and interdisciplinary feminist students who can learn more about the doing of feminist research from realistic, accessible, and practical methodological tools and knowledge.

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    1 324,-

    This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in Latin America.

  • av Maryse Helbert
    829,-

    This book examines the gender dimensions of large-scale mining in the oil industry and how oil exploitation has produced long-term economic, political, social and environmental risks and benefits in developing countries. The author attempts to answer the following questions: What are the impacts of oil projects on women in oil-rich countries?

  • - Latin America and India
     
    1 796,-

    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.

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    1 796,-

    Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide.

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    1 595,-

    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.

  • - The Forgotten One
    av Fatma Osman Ibnouf
    944 - 1 001,-

    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.

  • - Beauties at Work
    av Liu Jieyu
    1 362 - 1 403,-

    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'. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.

  • - Empowering Women in Africa
     
    1 595,-

    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.

  • - Transformative Approaches in Post-Conflict Settings
     
    1 333,-

    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.

  • - Empowering Women in Africa
     
    1 595,-

    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.

  • - Realising Women's Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting
     
    1 507,-

    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.

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    1 613,-

    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.

  • av Njoki Nathani Wane
    800,-

    This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses.

  • - Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
     
    1 651,-

    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.

  • - Transformative Approaches in Post-Conflict Settings
     
    1 315,-

    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.

  • - Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
     
    1 692,-

    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.

  • - Realising Women's Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting
     
    2 085,-

    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.

  • - Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
     
    1 362,-

    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.

  • - Indian Women's Perspectives
    av Orlanda Ruthven, Bina Fernandez & Meena Gopal
    1 692,-

    This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women's access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India.

  • - The Kurdistan Region of Iraq
    av Katherine Ranharter
    712,-

    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.

  • - Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained
    av Wendy Harcourt
    712,-

    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.

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    712,-

    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.

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    712,-

    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.

  • - Understanding Shakti
    av Pashington Obeng
    712,-

    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.

  • - Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
     
    712,-

    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.

  • - Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
     
    712,-

    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.

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