Societies in Transition -- Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies

ISBN-13: 9783810035295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 233 str.

Heike Flessner; Lydia Potts

Opis

Currently, women' sand gen der studies programs exist in many countries around the world. It is a crucial task for the future of this still emerging disci pline to enhance international communication and cooperation between study programs, students, scholars, activists, and professionals. If we consider the ideals and concepts of "emancipation" and "participation" as core principles of women' sand gen der studies, then our global networking requires system atic inclusion of non-western perspectives at all levels of research, teaching, and curriculum development. The international conference "Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies," held at Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany, from June 28 through July 1,2001, was intended as a step in this direction, bringing together speakers - all represented in this book - from a variety of countries: Poland and Hungary, Great Britain and New Zealand, India and Nepal, South Africa, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen. Although this list might at first appear arbitrary, its composition was both carefully and intentionally constructed. As organizers, we knew that a com paratively sm all conference could not entertain a fully inclusive representa tion of women's and gender studies programs worldwide."

Spis treści

Mit Beiträgen von: Gabriele Griffin, Victoria Grace, Silke Wenk, Sigrid Metz-Göckel, Susan Zimmermann, Bozena Choluj, Susanne Schunter-Kleemann, Kinga Lohmann, Rashida A. Al-Hamdani, Rokhsana M. Ismail, Josi Salem-Pickartz, Yasmin Haddad, Gamze Ege, Savita Singal, Puspa Ghimire-Niraula, Ira Acharya, Sheila Meintjes, Samiera Zafar, Anne Phillips

O autorze

Heike Fleßner, Ph.D., professor of Social Pedagogy at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany and teaches Social Pedagogy and Women's Gender Studies; Lydia Potts, Ph.D, teaches Political Science, Intercultural Education and Women's and Gender Studies at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany.

Blurb

The book presents inside perspectives of women's and gender studies programs from a great variety of countries. It analyses how societal transitions influence the emergence and further development of such programs and by doing this reflects the contradictory changes of women's status and roles worldwide.

Die Reihe ,Studien interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung' präsentiert regelmäßig neuere Untersuchungen über Herausbildungen und Bedeutungen von Geschlecht. Verknüpft werden natur-, technik-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Sichtweisen. Ebenfalls thematisiert werden hochschulpolitische Entwicklungen und Perspektiven von Geschlechterforschung in und außerhalb der Hochschule. Die Reihe wird herausgegeben vom Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (ZFG) und dem Zentrum für feministische Studien, Universität Bremen (ZFS).