Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation: Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future

ISBN-13: 9780367221454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

Joyce P. Kaufman; Kristen P. Williams

Opis

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-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods.

Spis treści

Preface; Prologue: Women, gender and remittances: an introduction, Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand. Part I Setting the Context: A gender perspective on migration, remittances and development: the UN-INSTRAW experience, Elisabeth Robert; Exploring gender and remittances, Ton van Naerssen. Part II Transnational Microcosms: Engendering Remittances in Daily Practices: Contesting gender roles: ‘left-behind’ migrant spouses in Kumasi, Ghana, Ingmar Deenen, Lieke van der Zee and Lothar Smith; Transnational households and the dynamics of changing gender relations in Sucre, Bolivia, Roos Helmich; Gender dimensions of the ‘national script’ on migration and remittances in the Philippines, Phillip Gresham, Marieke Smit and Lothar Smith; Gender and remittances in the constitution of a transnational religious space: the Bangladesh-Malaysia connection, Petra Dannecker. Part III Policy Scapes to the Gender-Remittances Nexus: ‘All in the family’: remittances, gender and public policies in the Philippines, Maruja M.B. Asis; Migrants’ and women’s rights are human rights: migrant remittances and policies in Bangladesh, Agnes Khoo; Valuing gender in collective development efforts, Daniëlle de Winter; Migrants as ‘experts’ or ‘agents’ of development? A postcolonial feminist critique, Marianne H. Marchand. Part IV Reflecting on the Nexus and Performative Power: ‘Moneymaker and mother from afar’: the power of gender myths, Rahel Kunz; Framing gender in remittances, Tine Davids and Francien van Driel; Epilogue: reflecting on the women-gender-remittances-development nexus, Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand.

O autorze

Joyce P. Kaufman, Whittier College, USA and Kristen P. Williams, Clark University, USA