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 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 ...
Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South
1st Edition
By Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Marianne H. Marchand
July 14, 2015
This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes...
(En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Krista Hunt, Kim Rygiel
December 28, 2007
The war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation and effects of this US-led aggression. Virtually absent from these accounts is an examination of the central role that gender, race, class and sexuality...
The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives and Practices
1st Edition
By Francien van Driel, Tine Davids
December 28, 2007
Orthodox views of globalization assume that it has the same features and impact everywhere, i.e. the feminization of poverty, labour and even peace. As these ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, they settle practically as truths. This challenging and unique book is ...