Situating Women

Author : Nicole George
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781922144157

Get Book

Situating Women by Nicole George Pdf

Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these challenges. It is the first book to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country’s gender politics across four tumultuous decades. It is also the first to examine the ‘situated’ nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does this by analysing trends in activity, from women’s radical and provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying global and local factors can shape women’s understandings of gender justice and their pursuit of that goal.

Author : Janet M. Stoppard,Linda M. McMullen,Linda M McMullen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814798003

Get Book

Situating Sadness by Janet M. Stoppard,Linda M. McMullen,Linda M McMullen Pdf

'Situating Sadness' sheds light on the influence of sociocultural factors, such as economic distress, child-bearing or child-care difficulties, or feelings of powerlessness which may play a significant role, and points to the importance of centext for understanding women's depression.

Author : Nicole George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848112575

Get Book

Situating Women by Nicole George Pdf

Author : Sondra Farganis
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803946507

Get Book

Situating Feminism by Sondra Farganis Pdf

Providing a broad base of essential knowledge critical to undergraduate students, Situating Feminism will also inspire new directions in critical thought and theoretical advancement for academics and professionals in the areas of women's and culture studies, political science, social work, communication, sociology, and psychology.

Author : Nicole Louise George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1922144142

Get Book

Situating Women by Nicole Louise George Pdf

Author : Lisa Yarwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415699112

Get Book

Women and Transitional Justice by Lisa Yarwood Pdf

This book discusses the evolving principle of transitional justice in public international law and international relations from the female perspective. The book contains contributions from a range of experts in the field of TJ. The range of experiences and knowledge in this collection provide a fresh and unique perspective in the blend of theory and practice that these contributions collectively provide.

Author : Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004257696

Get Book

Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security by Sara E. Davies,Zim Nwokora,Eli Stamnes,Sarah Teitt Pdf

In Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, editors Sara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah Teitt address the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Contributions from policy-makers and academics consider both the merits and the utility of aligning the protection agendas of R2P and WPS. A number of actionable recommendations are made concerning a unification of the agendas to best support the global empowerment of women and the prevention of mass atrocities.

Author : Jodie Medd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107054004

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature by Jodie Medd Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In so doing, it delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

Author : Kcasey McLoughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000475531

Get Book

Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order by Kcasey McLoughlin Pdf

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court’s historically masculinist gender regime. This book examines how the High Court’s gender regime operates once there is more than one woman on the bench. It explores the following questions: How have the Court’s gender relations accommodated the presence women on the bench? How have the women themselves accommodated those pre-existing gender relations? How might legal judgments and reasoning change as a result of changing gender dynamics on the bench? To develop answers to these (and other) questions the book pursues a methodology that conceptualises the High Court as an institution with a particular gender regime shaped historically by the dominant gender order of the wider society. The intersection between the (gendered) individuals and the (gendered) institution in which they operate produces and reproduces that institution’s gender regime. Hence, the enquiry is not so much asking ‘have women judges made a difference?’ but rather is asking how should we understand women judges’ relationship with the law, a relationship that is shaped as much by the individual judge as by the institutional context in which they operate. Scholars, legal practitioners and researchers interested in judicial reasoning, gender diversity and the legal profession, gender and politics will be interested in this book because it breaks new ground as a case study of a Court’s gender regime at a particular time.

Author : Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521470447

Get Book

Situating Fertility by Susan Greenhalgh Pdf

This collection addresses the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, and political forces that affect reproductive behavior. For their part, anthropologists have only recently begun to apply their characteristic approaches to the study of reproduction. Drawing on new ethnographic and historical research and on a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors to this book indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions.

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836188

Get Book

Through Feminist Eyes by Joan Sangster Pdf

"Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada."--Pub. desc.

Author : Mary Jane Mossman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847310958

Get Book

The First Women Lawyers by Mary Jane Mossman Pdf

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive societal change, including new and expanding opportunities for women, as well as a variety of proposals for reforming law, legal education, and standards of legal professionalism. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this reformist context in different jurisdictions, the study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In exploring these systemic issues, the study also provides detailed examinations of the lives of some of the first women lawyers in six jurisdictions: the United States, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia, India, and western Europe. In exploring how individual women adopted different legal arguments in litigated cases, or devised particular strategies to overcome barriers to professional work, the study assesses how shifting and contested ideas about gender and about legal professionalism shaped women's opportunities and choices, as well as both support for and opposition to their claims. As a comparative study of the first women lawyers in several different jurisdictions, the book reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Eleanor O'Gorman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847010407

Get Book

The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman by Eleanor O'Gorman Pdf

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Author : Susan Dewey,Bonnie Zare,Catherine Connolly,Rhett Epler,Rosemary Bratton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479801176

Get Book

Outlaw Women by Susan Dewey,Bonnie Zare,Catherine Connolly,Rhett Epler,Rosemary Bratton Pdf

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violence Incarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned. Outlaw Women examines the forces that shape women’s experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as “the Western frontier.” Drawing on dozens of interviews with women in the state of Wyoming who were incarcerated or on parole, the authors provide an in-depth examination of women’s perceptions of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. Considering cultural mores specific to the rural West, the authors identify the forces that consistently trap women in cycles of crime and violence in these regions: felony-related discrimination, the geographic isolation that traps women in abusive relationships, and cultural stigmas surrounding addiction, poverty, and precarious interpersonal relationships. Following incarceration, women in these areas face additional, region-specific obstacles as they attempt to reintegrate into society, including limited social services, significant gender wage gaps, and even severe weather conditions that restrict travel. The book ultimately concludes with new, evidence-based recommendations for addressing the challenges these women face.

Author : Robert W. Buckingham,Peggy A. Howard Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798216159414

Get Book

Understanding Loss and Grief for Women by Robert W. Buckingham,Peggy A. Howard Ph.D. Pdf

This book can enhance everyone's understanding of how women experience loss and grief, and how they transition to resolution. It is an invaluable resource to women and everyone who supports them—spouses, partners, and family members as well as community and government. Women's grief is often a complex phenomenon—a natural, normal experience, but one that can seriously impact everyone—female or male—at every stage of life. Understanding Loss and Grief for Women: A New Perspective on Their Pain and Healing provides a way to look at how women experience loss through the lens of their socially constructed roles, and in light of the theories and practice of grief therapy and support. The book begins by explaining the social construction of women's traditional, transitional, and modern/postmodern roles, and then addresses the social construction of grief theory and practice in past eras and modern society. Several case studies enable readers to see how social constructs shape women's responses to various causes of grief, such as the death of a spouse or partner, child, marriage (divorce), and career (retirement). The final section of the book examines the health impacts of grief, offers suggestions to ameliorate negative health impacts, and emphasizes how loss and grief for women can be used as opportunities for self-growth. This book serves all members of the general population as well as educators, academics, scientists, and students of disciplines such as psychology, psychotherapy, medicine, sociology, and women's studies. It will enable all women to better understand, deal with, and heal from their loss and grief experience. Male readers will empathize with what their spouses/partners, mothers, grandmothers, siblings, and friends are experiencing in loss and grief and understand how to support healthy transition through grief to resolution. The community at large and care providers will learn how to create a more nurturing and supportive environment for women's grief response.