Women and Fluid Identities: Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women

ISBN-13: 9781349339501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 195 str.

Haleh Afshar

Opis

This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Tables The Fluidities of Identities: Some Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women; H.Afshar 'Mothers' Pasts and Daughters' Presents and Futures: Across Generational Exploration of Women's Work and Aspirations in Urban China; J.Liu The Wives and Mothers of Heroes: Evolving Identities of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon; M.Holt Mobilizing Collective Networks to Enable Individual Success: The Case of Middle Class Indian Women Employed in Information Technology; J.Belliappa Identity, Moral Economy and Livelihoods: Women's Use of Microfinance in Luribay, Bolivia; K.Maclean 'She Who Disputes' Muslim Women Activists in Italy and the UK Speak for Themselves; A.Belli Iranian State's Religo-ideological Policies and their Impact on Young Migrant Women in Tabriz; M.Velayati Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle: Gender, Agency and Identity; E.Rostami-Povey Competing Interests: Democracy, Islamification and Women Politicians in Iran; H.Afhsar Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

ALESSIA BELLI Post-doctoral Student at University of York, UK JYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA Lecturer at University of York, UK MARIA HOLT Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster, UK JIEYU LIU Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Leeds, UK KATE MCLEAN Lecturer in Human Geography at King's College London, UK ELAHEH ROSTAMI-POVEY Research Associate at SOAS, UK MASOUMEH VELYATI Lecturer in Gender and Development at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK