"Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy and practice of designing for gender in urban spaces. Gender matters in city design, yet despite legislative mandates across the globe to provide equal access to services for men and women alike, these issues are sti…
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Introduction -- 1. Women, gender and social policy in early work -- 2. Contemporary approaches to gender and social policy: Bringing scholarship up to date -- Intermezzo 1 -- 3. Income, wealth and poverty -- 4. Access to employment -- 5. Inequalities of time use and life satisfa…
"Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfare states. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide…
"Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfare states. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide…
"In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniq…
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and "experts" representing well over two thousand organizations...each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interest…
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and "experts" representing well over two thousand organizations--each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests…
Female Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today as a continuation of female erasure and silencing. This anthology com…
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
This title presents state of the art research on women's current position in European labour markets, combining analysis of the latest trends in employment, pay, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work and social provisions.
Using diverse theories and methods including analysis of on-line data, feminist critical discourse, fieldwork, grounded theory, and queer theory, this volume explores gender panic and policy in the United States and beyond.
Contributed articles presented at the Conference Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations: Debates on Gender and the Law, organized by the Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, O.P. Jindal Global University, in collaboration with Australian National University, held duri…
"In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the…
This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. 0The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domest…