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 โglobal/local worldโ, 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
'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians
1st Edition
By R. Charli Carpenter
June 30, 2020
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in ...
Development in an Insecure and Gendered World: The Relevance of the Millennium Goals
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Leckie
June 30, 2020
The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women. The most relevant ...
Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough
1st Edition
By Leah Briones
June 30, 2020
Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, ...
Encountering the Transnational: Women, Islam and the Politics of Interpretation
1st Edition
By Meena Sharify-Funk
June 30, 2020
When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? Addressing this question, Meena Sharify-Funk encountered women activists and intellectuals in North America, the ...
Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
1st Edition
By Marian Sawer, Melissa Haussman
June 30, 2020
Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored their gender impact. For the first time, this ...
Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico
1st Edition
By Teresa Healy
June 30, 2020
Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order. She analyzes how working class men organized to fight for the recognition of their citizenship rights, how they defended those...
No Place for a War Baby: The Global Politics of Children born of Wartime Sexual Violence
1st Edition
By Donna Seto
June 30, 2020
Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery. The focus on children born of wartime sexual violence questions the framework of understanding war and recognizes that certain individuals are often ...
Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping
1st Edition
By Carol Harrington
June 30, 2020
In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an ...
Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces
1st Edition
By Belinda Leach, Barbara Pini
June 30, 2020
Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes ...
The Price of Gender Equality: Member States and Governance in the European Union
1st Edition
By Anna van der Vleuten
June 30, 2020
This thoroughly researched, well-documented book presents a theoretically guided empirical analysis of developing and implementing gender equality policies in the European Union (EU). In spite of a wealth of research, many questions have long remained unanswered and these are addressed here. The ...
Transnational Ruptures: Gender and Forced Migration
1st Edition
By Catherine Nolin
June 30, 2020
A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage ...
Waging Gendered Wars: U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
1st Edition
By Paige Whaley Eager
June 30, 2020
Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground combat positions within the U.S. armed ...