Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
About the Book Series
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This series advances our understanding of the diversity and complexity of women's experience around the world, working across different geographies to explore the processes which underlie the construction of gender and the life-worlds of women.
Global Black Feminisms: Cross Border Collaboration through an Ethics of Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea N. Baldwin, Tonya Haynes
December 18, 2024
This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis. This text not only details how such praxis can be ...
Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk
1st Edition
Edited
By Anindita Datta, Janet Momsen, Ann M. Oberhauser
May 27, 2024
This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with ...
Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia
1st Edition
By Alanna Kamp
January 29, 2024
Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how ...
Climate Change, Gender Roles and Hierarchies: Socioeconomic Transformation in an Ethnic Minority Community in Viet Nam
1st Edition
By Phuong Ha Pham, Donna L. Doane
May 30, 2022
This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued its self-sufficient way of life in this remote forested mountainous region, but in recent years has been forced to respond to severe...
Brokering Circular Labour Migration: A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers’ Journey to Switzerland
1st Edition
By Huey Shy Chau
December 13, 2021
This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies that organise transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers. The book focuses on the emergence of private for-profit home care agencies following the 2011 extension of the Free Movement ...
Gender, Companionship, and Travel: Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature
1st Edition
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By Floris Meens, Tom Sintobin
June 30, 2020
Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these ...
Reproductive Geographies: Bodies, Places and Politics
1st Edition
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By Marcia England, Maria Fannin, Helen Hazen
June 30, 2020
The sites, spaces and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales - body, home, local, national, global - and movements across space.This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy and ...
Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Nahid Rezwana
December 17, 2019
Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women’s experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal ...
Education, Gender and Development: A Capabilities Perspective
1st Edition
By Mari-Anne Okkolin
June 14, 2018
This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender...
Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Victoria K. Haskins, Claire Lowrie
February 12, 2018
This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization. Colonization offers a rich and exciting new paradigm for analyzing the phenomenon of domestic labor by non-family workers, paid and ...
Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems
1st Edition
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By Zahra Meghani
February 12, 2018
This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, ...
Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Christine Eriksen
February 05, 2018
In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led...