Gender in a Global/Local World
About the Book Series
Gender in a Global/Local World critically explores the uneven and often contradictory ways in which global processes and local identities come together. Much has been and is being written about globalization and responses to it but rarely from a critical, historical, gendered perspective. Yet, these processes are profoundly gendered albeit in different ways in particular contexts and times. The changes in social, cultural, economic and political institutions and practices alter the conditions under which women and men make and remake their lives. New spaces have been created - economic, political, social - and previously silent voices are being heard. North-South dichotomies are being undermined as increasing numbers of people and communities are exposed to international processes through migration, travel, and communication, even as marginalization and poverty intensify for many in all parts of the world. The series features monographs and collections which explore the tensions in a ’global/local world’, and includes contributions from all disciplines in recognition that no single approach can capture these complex processes.
Please contact one of the editors if you have a proposal for consideration:
Jane Parpart: [email protected]
Marianne H. Marchand: [email protected]
Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization: Transnational Scholar-Activist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Zwingel, Brianna N. Hernandez, Luisa Turbino Torres
October 15, 2025
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles––bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact. The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare humanity’s ...
The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins
1st Edition
Edited
By Aliya Khalid, Georgina Holmes, Jane L. Parpart
May 06, 2025
The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins seeks to dismantle the deficit discourses generated through research about people as agency-less and, by extension, objects of study. The book argues that, regardless of marginalisation, people...
Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Hoda Mahmoudi, Jane L. Parpart, Kate Seaman
January 30, 2025
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political, social, and economic—which persist despite the growth in the education of girls, large-scale social movements, and political waves. The volume ...
Gender and Political Support: Women and Hamas in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
1st Edition
By Minna Cowper-Coles
May 27, 2024
This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more women than men support Hamas, and more men than women support Fatah. The author then shows how economic interests and religion largely explain this gender gap, and explores how the ...
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict: The Coloniality of Violence
1st Edition
By Julia Carolin Sachseder
May 27, 2024
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights. The author argues that the key to ...
Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas: Analyzing Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga
May 27, 2024
Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th–21st centuries. It explores their empowerment processes, the type of gender inequalities they faced, and their destinies as they aged; whether they resided...
The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese "Comfort Women"
1st Edition
By Sachiyo Tsukamoto
January 29, 2024
Joint Winner of the Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize 2023 https://auspsa.org.au/prizes-and-awards/carole-pateman-gender-and-politics-book-prize/ The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting ...
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture
1st Edition
By Andy Carolin
August 01, 2022
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within ...
Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
By María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, María Leticia Rivermar Pérez
February 01, 2022
Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007. ...
Gender and Island Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Firouz Gaini, Helene Pristed Nielsen
December 13, 2021
This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis.Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on ...
Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship
1st Edition
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By Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Evangelia Tastsoglou
December 18, 2020
In an increasingly globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. At the same time, with the rise of neo-liberalism, welfare state retrenchment, decline of state employment, ...
Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
1st Edition
By Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Evangelia Tastsoglou
December 18, 2020
Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and ...