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
Gender, Violence and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo
1st Edition
By Jane Freedman
October 26, 2017
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the ’worst place in the world’ for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of rape and sexual violence and almost complete impunity for the perpetrators of such violence. However, despite the high profile media reporting on ...
Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda
1st Edition
By Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
October 26, 2017
Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their supporters - has been to further gender equality ...
Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility: Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries
1st Edition
By Stine Thidemann Faber, Helene Pristed Nielsen
October 26, 2017
Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within ’Nordic Peripheries’, this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ...
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims
1st Edition
By Ramona Vijeyarasa
October 26, 2017
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging -...
Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building
1st Edition
By Anna C. Snyder
May 16, 2017
Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women. This book traces the...
Resisting Gendered Norms: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia
1st Edition
By Mona Lilja
November 17, 2016
Political scientists have, on occasion, missed subtle but powerful forms of ’everyday resistance’ and have not been able to show how different representations (pictures, statements, images, practices) have different impacts when negotiating power. Instead they have concentrated on open forms of ...
Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis
1st Edition
By Erin K. Baines
November 10, 2016
Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies. In this book Erin Baines uses the examples of Bosnia, ...
Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces: Cross-national Analysis
1st Edition
By Lana Obradovic
October 31, 2016
Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic...
The Search for Lasting Peace: Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security
1st Edition
By Rosalind Boyd
October 19, 2016
Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the ...
Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
By Amy Lind, Anne Sisson Runyan, Marianne H. Marchand
October 10, 2016
Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies, which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. These tensions have ...
Body/State
1st Edition
By Jen Dickinson, Angus Cameron
September 08, 2016
Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern ...
(Un)thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda Gouws
September 06, 2016
The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse ...