Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological root of the "Deep Ecology" movement spre…
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 …
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…
De geografie is altijd een vakgebied geweest dat sterk door mannen werd gedomineerd. Auteur onderzoekt welke vormen van 'mannelijkheid' de discipline structureren.
"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…
This anthology includes some of the most important and influential essays in feminist education theory since the late 70s. Contributors are drawn from traditional liberal feminists, radical postmodern theorists, and those with psychological, philosophical and political agendas.
This anthology includes some of the most important and influential essays in feminist education theory since the late 70s. Contributors are drawn from traditional liberal feminists, radical postmodern theorists, and those with psychological, philosophical and political agendas.
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…
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…