The main message of this year's World development report: gender equality and development is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development obj…
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;…
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.
"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…
How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and …
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…
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…
De auteur belicht in dit boek de positie van vrouwen voor en na val van het staatssocialisme in Oost-Duitsland, Polen, Tsjecho-Slowakije en Hongarije en toont hoe de thema's rond gender vandaag zijn in het hart van potentieel explosieve processen van sociale en politieke transfo…
Researching women's lives from a feminist perspective
by Maynard, Mary, Purvis, June
fromGender & society
In de introductie op de stand van zaken binnen vrouwenstudies en de vrouwenbeweging in Rusland, de Oekraïne en andere ex-Sovjetstaten wordt met name ingegaan op vrouwengeschiedenis en de invloed van nationalisme op de vrouwenbeweging. In het eerste deel komt een aantal historisc…