This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds.
This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and...
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change.
In making visible resistances to dominant economic and...
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggle...
This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.
This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, clas...
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' div...
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young wom...
Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.
Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Loo...
Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the effects of gender-inclusive policies deployed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in the areas of politics, the economy and education on the region and its people.
Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the effec...
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as `white-collar beauties'. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as `white-...
This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women's access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India.
This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women's access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporar...
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities' inhabitants.
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus...
