Confronting Global Gender Justice

Author : Debra Bergoffen,Paula Ruth Gilbert,Tamara Harvey,Connie L. McNeely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136878718

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Confronting Global Gender Justice by Debra Bergoffen,Paula Ruth Gilbert,Tamara Harvey,Connie L. McNeely Pdf

Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women’s rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women’s lives. With thematic sections on Complicating Discourses of Victimhood, Interrogating Practices of Representation, Mobilizing Strategies of Engagement, and Crossing Legal Landscapes, this volume offers both specific case studies and more general theoretical interventions. Contributors examine and assess current understandings of gender justice, and offer new paradigms and strategies for dealing with the complexities of gender and human rights as they arise across local and international contexts. In addition, it offers a particularly timely assessment of the effectiveness and limits of international rights instruments, governmental and nongovernmental organization activities, grassroots and customary practices, and narrative and photographic representations. This book is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as Gender or Women’s Studies, Human Rights, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology, as well as researchers and professionals working in related areas.

Author : Debra Bergoffen,Paula Ruth Gilbert,Tamara Harvey,Connie L. McNeely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136878725

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Confronting Global Gender Justice by Debra Bergoffen,Paula Ruth Gilbert,Tamara Harvey,Connie L. McNeely Pdf

Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights examines the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, artists, and educators engaged in establishing women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. Issues addressed include: trafficking, AIDS, immigration, war-time violence, and legal battles.

Author : Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745679761

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Gender and Global Justice by Alison M. Jaggar Pdf

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice. The explorations presented here range far beyond the limited range of issues often thought to constitute feminists’ concerns about global justice, such as female seclusion, genital cutting, and sex trafficking. Instead, established and emerging scholars expose the gendered and racialized aspects of transnational divisions of paid and unpaid labor, class formation, taxation, migration, mental health, the so-called resource curse, and conceptualizations of violence, honor, and consent. Jaggar's introduction explains how these and other feminist investigations of the transnational order raise deep challenges to assumptions about justice that for centuries have underpinned Western political philosophy. Taken together the pieces in this volume present a sustained philosophical engagement with gender and global justice. Gender and Global Justice provides an accessible and original perspective on this important field and looks set to reframe philosophical reflection on global justice.

Author : Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417563

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The Logics of Gender Justice by Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon Pdf

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

Author : Sarah Forti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351620819

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Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance by Sarah Forti Pdf

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and programme levels. If current dominant theoretical perspectives are not interrogated, the consequences could be that gender inequalities and injustices are inadequately addressed, or that opportunities are missed to impact on poverty reduction and on transformative gender changes. Through a renewed interpretation of gender equality in IDA, the book aims to show the way towards a more effective response to gender inequalities and injustices faced by women in developing countries. Drawing on 20 years of experience working with IDA policies and programming across three continents, this book makes an important contribution to the active and dynamic field of critical feminism, as well as providing practical illustrations on how such critical thinking might contribute to gender transformational changes. Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance will be important reading for scholars and upper level students working in the fields of gender equality, human rights, development assistance, foreign affairs, international law, and international relations.

Author : Niamh Reilly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745654942

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Women's Human Rights by Niamh Reilly Pdf

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.

Author : Christine Koggel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949198173

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Gender Justice and Development (vols 1 & 2) by Christine Koggel Pdf

Author : Ann Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139500364

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Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market by Ann Stewart Pdf

Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and feminist ethics of care, Ann Stewart considers the way in which 'gender contracts' relating to work and care contribute to gender inequalities worldwide. She explores how economies in the global north stimulate desires and create deficits in care and belonging which are met through transnational movements and traces the way in which transnational economic processes, discourses of rights and care create relationships between global south and north. African women produce fruit and flowers for European consumption; body workers migrate to meet deficits in 'affect' through provision of care and sex; British-Asian families seek belonging through transnational marriages.

Author : John Idriss Lahai,Khanyisela Moyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319542027

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Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice by John Idriss Lahai,Khanyisela Moyo Pdf

This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women’s rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women’s groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces

Author : Maxine Molyneux,Shahra Razavi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199256457

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Gender Justice, Development, and Rights by Maxine Molyneux,Shahra Razavi Pdf

This text examines contemporary issues such as neoliberal policies, democracy and multiculturalism, analyzing them from a gender perspective. It examines how liberal rights and ideas of democracy and justice have been absorbed into the political agendas of women's movements.

Author : Catherine Eschle,Bice Maiguashca
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742567818

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Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement by Catherine Eschle,Bice Maiguashca Pdf

Challenging the neglect of feminism in accounts of the global justice movement, this book explores the origins, ideas, and practices of what Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca term "feminist antiglobalization activism." Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at the World Social Forum, the authors argue that feminists constitute a distinct, if diverse, sector of the global justice movement. Taking feminism seriously, the authors conclude, points us toward a richer and more theoretically nuanced understanding of the global justice movement and its struggle to create other possible worlds. Their book thus offers vital insights not only for feminists but also for all those interested in contemporary social movements and in global governance and resistance.

Author : Lizzie Seal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030874889

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Gender, Crime and Justice by Lizzie Seal Pdf

This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies.

Author : Raewyn Connell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745637013

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Confronting Equality by Raewyn Connell Pdf

What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality struggles, family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the political dilemmas of today's left. Written with clarity and passion, this book proposes a bold agenda for social science, and shows it in action. Raewyn Connell is known internationally for her powerfully argued and field-defining books Masculinities, Gender and Power, Making the Difference, and Southern Theory. This new volume gathers together a broad spectrum of her recent work which distinctively combines close-focus field research and large-scale theory, and brings this to bear on those questions of social justice and struggles for change that have long been at the heart of her writing, and will have wide-ranging implications for the social sciences and social activism in the twenty-first century. Visit www.raewynconnell.net

Author : Eileen Boris,Sandra Trudgen Dawson,Barbara Molony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000222777

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Engendering Transnational Transgressions by Eileen Boris,Sandra Trudgen Dawson,Barbara Molony Pdf

Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces. The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then divides into two parts—Part I, Intimate Transgressions: Marriage and Sexuality, examines marriage and divorce as viewed through a transnational lens, and Part II, Global Transgressions: Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the global and the significance of intersectional factors within the intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often separated: history of feminisms and anti-war, anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand, and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of rights, equality, and recognition. This is the ideal volume for students and scholars of Women’s and Gender History and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized topics.

Author : Andrea Khalil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317599166

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Gender, Women and the Arab Spring by Andrea Khalil Pdf

This book provides a unique investigation into the gender dynamics of the Arab Spring as it unfolded in North Africa. It covers issues such as gender legislation in the post-revolution period, sexual harassment, gender activism, politics and the female body, women and Islamist movements, state feminism, women and political economy, and women’s rights in the context of political transitions. Chapters on Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Egypt are written by specialist and activists from those countries. It includes a rare, first hand insight into the gender debates, human rights violations and politics of post Qaddafi Libya, written by a Libyan scholar directly engaged in these developments. An analysis of post-Mubarak gender debates in Egypt is detailed by a gender activist and scholar currently engaged in these debates in favour of gender equitable legislation and human rights in Egypt. Two former Ministers of Women’s Affairs from Tunisia and Algeria, who are also prolific scholars, provide analysis on the situation of women’s rights in the context of Islamism and freedom of artistic expression in Tunisia and Algeria. In addition to these first hand accounts written by North African political and civil society actors, the book provides a comprehensive theoretical background that allows for readers to understand the historical and deeper cultural contexts of gender struggles. The Foreword frames the larger debate about gender equality and democratisation in the North Africa/Middle Eat region and clearly presents the lines of investigation of the chapters. Each chapter contains a clear framing of the subject that will orient, educate, and intelligently inform the general reader about the history, current developments and stakes of women’s struggles that have intensified and shifted since the beginning of the Arab Spring. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.