Gendering The State In The Age Of Globalization

Author : Melissa Haussman,Birgit Sauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742581401

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Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. This is the latest volume in the Research Network on Gender and the State (RNGS) collaborative studies. Using the RNGS model of women's movement and women's policy actor strategies to influence public policy debates and state response, the book looks at data gathered from ten European countries (including Finland and Sweden), plus Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States from the 1990s to today. The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state change: state downsizing—particularly in social policy areas (Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain); expansion of state activities into previously less-regulated areas (Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden); and transformation—often constitutionally based—of representative structures (Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom). Examination of these patterns reveals the impact of the changes in state structures and national priorities on the effectiveness and ability of women's movement actors in achieving their goals.

Author : Melissa Haussman,Birgit Sauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742540170

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Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization by Melissa Haussman,Birgit Sauer Pdf

Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. This is the latest volume in the Research Network on Gender and the State (RNGS) collaborative studies. Using the RNGS model of women's movement and women's policy actor strategies to influence public policy debates and state response, the book looks at data gathered from ten European countries (including Finland and Sweden), plus Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States from the 1990s to today. The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state change: state downsizing--particularly in social policy areas (Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain); expansion of state activities into previously less-regulated areas (Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden); and transformation--often constitutionally based--of representative structures (Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom). Examination of these patterns reveals the impact of the changes in state structures and national priorities on the effectiveness and ability of women's movement actors in achieving their goals.

Author : Rita Mae Kelly,Jane H. Bayes,Mary E. Hawkesworth,Brigitte Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461665342

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Gender, Globalization, & Democratization by Rita Mae Kelly,Jane H. Bayes,Mary E. Hawkesworth,Brigitte Young Pdf

Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler societies' of Oceania, the impact of globalizing forces and uneven democratization yields gender dislocations everywhere. This volume charts these trends with original research, first-hand interviews and surveys, and fresh theoretical perspectives.

Author : Terryl Blackwell
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839474248

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Gender Development & Globalization by Terryl Blackwell Pdf

Gender Development and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Gender is a development issue because social considerations are not easily incorporated into institutions such as policies, regulations, markets and organizations. This process is often referred to as the mainstreaming of gender in development institutions. Women are often in a disadvantaged position in terms of access to assets, services, information and formal decision-making status. Gender equality is considered a critical element in achieving Decent Work for All Women and Men, in order to effect social and institutional change that leads to sustainable development with equity and growth. Gender equality refers to equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities that all persons should enjoy, regardless of whether one is born male or female. Gender developmental scientists are concerned with age-related changes in gender typing, and more broadly, with many issues about the emergence and patterning of gendered behaviors and thinking. Description of these changes is vitally important as it informs theoretical approaches to gender development. Using a broad lens on age-related changes provides important information describing how development occurs, but shorter time frames are also useful for identifying processes that may underlie developmental patterns. Gender has been increasingly acknowledged as a critical variable in analysis and development planning. Gender is an expression of power in social relationship between men and women. The book will be very useful to academicians, researchers, planners, students, NGOs, civil societies and all those who are interested in women studies in general and gender issues in contexts in particular.

Author : Ramona Mihăilă,Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences,Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Sex role
ISBN : 1935494392

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Gender Studies in the Age of Globalization by Ramona Mihăilă,Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences,Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences Staff Pdf

Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015079270529

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Gendering the Nation-state by Yasmeen Abu-Laban Pdf

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship. Contributors bring the insights of feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popular and policy discussions in contemporary Canada and beyond: gender and nation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship. Gendering the Nation-State employs a comparative framework and builds on three decades of multidisciplinary work. Nuanced and wide-ranging, the collection crosses and challenges physical, theoretical, and disciplinary borders to appeal to scholars in political science, gender studies, and sociology. Yasmeen Abu-Laban is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Widely published in the areas of difference and citizenship, she is co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization. Contributors Yasmeen Abu-Laban Caroline Andrew Janine Brodie Louise Chappell Maya Eichler Jane Jenson Paul Kershaw Judy Rebick Marian Sawer Francesca Scala Jackie F. Steele Linda Trimble Jill Vickers Shauna Wilton

Author : Nandini Gunewardena,Ann E. Kingsolver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Culture and globalization
ISBN : 1930618913

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The Gender of Globalization by Nandini Gunewardena,Ann E. Kingsolver Pdf

As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to cliché, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places. Heralded as agents of prosperity and liberation, neoliberal economic policies have all too often refigured and redoubled the burdens of gender, race, caste, class, and regional subordination that women bear. Traders, garment factory operatives, hotel managers and maids, small farmers and agricultural laborers, garbage pickers, domestic caregivers, daughters, wives, and mothers--women around the world are struggling to challenge the tendency of globalization talk to veil their marginalization.

Author : Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438486963

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Gendered Lives by Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson Pdf

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book's central themes of globalization and intersectionality. An OER version of this course is freely available thanks to the generous support of SUNY OER Services. Access the book online at https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/.

Author : Dr Sanja Bahun,Dr V.G. Julie Rajan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472453747

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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World by Dr Sanja Bahun,Dr V.G. Julie Rajan Pdf

This revised and updated edition of Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the world, discussing various contexts including Chechnya, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Syria, South Africa, the United States, and the Internet. Bringing together scholars’ and activists’ historicized and site-specific perspectives, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice concerning violence, gender, and agency.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Capital market
ISBN : 9780231106085

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Losing Control? by Saskia Sassen Pdf

This work looks at the way in which the new global economy works, examining its effect on the power and legitimacy of individual states. It argues that national sovereignty has not eroded, but states have begun to reconfigure, to decide where their resonsi

Author : Charlotte Hooper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231505208

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Manly States by Charlotte Hooper Pdf

Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how the theory and practice of international relations produces and sustains masculine identities and masculine rivalries. This volume asserts that international politics shapes multiple masculinities rather than one static masculinity, positing an interplay between a "hegemonic masculinity" (associated with elite, western male power) and other subordinated, feminized masculinities (typically associated with poor men, nonwestern men, men of color, and/or gay men). Employing feminist analyses to confront gender-biased stereotyping in various fields of international political theory—including academic scholarship, journals, and popular literature like The Economist—Hooper reconstructs the nexus of international relations and gender politics during this age of globalization.

Author : J. Outshoorn,J. Kantola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230591424

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Changing State Feminism by J. Outshoorn,J. Kantola Pdf

Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

Author : Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Gul Caliskan,Gul Caliskan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199030723

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Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender by Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Gul Caliskan,Gul Caliskan Pdf

Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender examines crucial questions, issues, and cases related to gender on a global scale. Drawing on an intersectional, postcolonial framework, the text exposes students to a variety of perspectives on how globalization has affected gender issues, and conversely how gender has informed global issues.

Author : Sherrow O. Pinder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498538978

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Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization by Sherrow O. Pinder Pdf

Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare provides an “underclass” of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay minimum wage. This “underclass” is characteristically gendered and racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The stereotype of the “underclass,” which is infused with racial meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which “gendered racism” presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of welfare policy reform in the United States.

Author : Jane H. Bayes
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783866495258

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Gender and Politics by Jane H. Bayes Pdf

This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.