The Globalization of Gender: Knowledge, Mobilizations, Frameworks of Action

ISBN-13: 9780367785789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 250 str.

Ioana Cîrstocea; Delphine Lacombe; Elisabeth Marteu

Opis

This book provides an insightful approach to understanding the contemporary circulations of feminist repertoires and shows how the international/transnational circulations of gender are interconnected, even coextensive, with the globalization process itself.

Spis treści

Editors’ Introduction - Gender: A Globalized Category of Public Policy and Knowledge Production  Part I: Expertise  1. Gender as a Transnational Socialization Platform (Eastern Europe, 1990-2000s)  2. Becoming Gender Expert: Trajectories and Strategies in Tajikistan  3. Cosmopolitanism and Feminism  Part II: Mobilization and Politicization  4. Violence against Women and (de)Colonization of the "Body-Territory": From War to Neoliberal Extractivism in Guatemala  5. Globalized Gender and Creative Strategies against Inequalities in Turkey: Capital City Women’s Platform (Bașkent Kadın Platformu Derneği)  6. Gender Globalization and Human Rights: The Politicization of Intra-familial and Sexual Violence in Nicaragua (1979-1996)  7. Local Strategies to Appropriate UNSC Resolution 1325 "Women, Peace and Security" in Israel-Palestine  8. Becoming Lesbian in China: A Path to Emancipation  Part III: Bureaucratic and Economic Diversion of Gender  9. The Creation of an International "Cause" and its Implementation in a National Context: The Fight against Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo  10. Women as Financial Subject  11. "Women’s Rights Washing": The Selective Circulation of "Saudi Women’s Rights" between Diplomacy, Media and Activism.  Editors’ Conclusion - Gender: A "Useful Category" for Studying Globalization

 

O autorze

Ioana Cîrstocea is a Sociologist at the Scientific Research National Center and member of the European Center for Sociology and Political Science in Paris, France.

Delphine Lacombe is a Sociologist at Paris University and the Scientific Research National Center. She is a member of the Migration and Society Research Unit (URMIS) in Paris, France.

Elisabeth Marteu is a Political Scientist and Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UK.