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
When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Romero, Valerie Preston, Wenona Giles
June 30, 2020
Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the ...
Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane L. Parpart, Swati Parashar
February 25, 2020
Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a ...
Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlene Solis
January 17, 2019
In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups; experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social inequality and violence. This situation is ...
Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation: Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce P. Kaufman, Kristen P. Williams
January 17, 2019
The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the ...
Gender and Conflict: Embodiments, Discourses and Symbolic Practices
1st Edition
By Georg Frerks, Annelou Ypeij
October 26, 2017
Through an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimization, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hierarchies and power relations, but also motivates people ...
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, ...