Since the late 1990s rights-based approaches (RBAs) in development have been advanced by the major institutional development actors such as the UN, multilateral and bilateral agencies, and international NGOs. A number of critiques of RBAs have emerged that question whether the …
"Settler societies are those in which European migrants have become politically dominant over indigenous peoples and a heterogeneous social structure has developed. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contempo…
Gendering welfare states
by Sainsbury, Diane,, politicoloog
fromSage modern politics series
Bundel waarin het begrip gender onderdeel is van een analyse van de verzorgingsstaat. Hiertoe komt een aantal wetenschappers aan het woord zowel vanuit feministische hoek als vanuit het reguliere onderzoek: Jet Bussemakers en Kees van Kersbergen over: Sekse en verzorgingsstaten;…
Feminist philosophy began on the margins, in the applied fields where practical concerns met with the political issues central to the women's movement. The traditional core of philosophy - including epistemology - remained intact, impervious to any inquiry that appealed to value…
Product Description Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in digni…
Leila Ahmed brengt met dit boek een eigenzinnige bijdrage aan het debat over vrouwen en islam. Zij doet dit vanuit historisch perspectief, door ontwikkelingen te beschrijven in het islamitisch discours over vrouw en sekse vanaf de Oudste Tijden tot nu. Centraal staat de vraag of…
This wide-ranging and up-to-date text provides a critical study from second wave feminism to current debates in 1990s feminist theory and politics. Topics covered include liberal feminism, radical feminism, lesbian feminism and men in feminism.
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates
In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. Many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of mod…
Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies, and politics in communities as diverse as the rubber tappers in the rainforests of Brazil and activist groups fighting environmental racism in New York City. Environmental struggles occur through…
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society ba…
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society ba…
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society ba…
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society ba…