Women’s Empowerment and Its Limits: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives Toward Sustainable Progress

ISBN-13: 9783031293313 / Angielski

Elisa Fornalé; Federica Cristani

Opis

Bringing together a range of scholarship, this edited volume investigates the limits and boundaries of women’s empowerment toward shaping sustainability by unpacking power relationships that affect women’s inclusive citizenship; analyzing concrete examples of limits across different regions; and exploring the rise of new technological innovations that may (or may not) contribute to dissolve those limits. Chapters focus on different dimensions that risk to contribute to disempowerment (such as historical, cultural, socio-economic, and normative) to frame a new understanding of how achieving equality around the world. Integrating transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives at domestic and international levels, this book looks at ways to provide new opportunities for removing invisible and visible barriers to ensure gender parity and to make sustainable change irreversible.This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policymakers across Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics, and Economics.

Spis treści

Part I: Know the Limits: The Status of Women Empowerment in the Sustainability Discourse.- 1: Women Empowerment: An Historical Introduction.- 2: Achievements and Hurdles towards Beijing+20: Women's Human Rights under Democratic Regression.- 3: Minority Women, Human Rights and Culture in the Multicultural Discourse.- Part II: Test the Limits: Where is Gender Equality in the Sustainable Development Policy Framework?- 4: Including the Gender Dimension in the ‘Investment and Sustainable Development’ discourse: Where Do We Stand Now?- 5: Building Resilience or Just Coping with Climate Change and Disasters? Insights from the Pacific.- 6: The Ambivalent Parity- The Constitution and Women’s Rights.- Part III: Cross the Limits: Innovation for Engendering Sustainable Development.- 7: Data Feminization.- 8: A Story to Be Told – When the Internet Works for Women and Gender Diverse People.- 9: Space4Women – Challenges and Opportunities.- 10: On the Road to Post-Sustainability.

O autorze

Elisa Fornalé is Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland, where she leads the SNSF Project Gender Equality in the Mirror. She is the Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Sea Level Rise and International Law). Her main research includes international migration law, human rights and climate change.

Federica Cristani is a senior researcher at the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations in Prague (CZ) and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (FI). She is also Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL). Her main research interests include international economic law and international law of cyberspace.

Blurb

Bringing together a range of scholarship, this edited volume investigates the limits and boundaries of women’s empowerment toward shaping sustainability by unpacking power relationships that affect women’s inclusive citizenship; analyzing concrete examples of limits across different regions; and exploring the rise of new technological innovations that may (or may not) contribute to dissolve those limits. Chapters focus on different dimensions related to disempowerment (such as historical, cultural, socio-economic, and normative) to frame a new understanding of how achieving equality around the world. Integrating transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives at domestic and international levels, this book looks at ways to provide new opportunities for removing invisible and visible barriers to ensure gender parity and to make sustainable change irreversible.

This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policymakers across Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics, and Economics.