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...
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
Edited
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
Edited
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...
A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Buechler, Anne-Marie Hanson
October 10, 2016
This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from ...
Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
1st Edition
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By Brenda Yeoh, Peggy Teo, Shirlena Huang
August 12, 2014
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the ...
Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition
1st Edition
By Michelle V. Rowley
October 14, 2013
This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing ...
Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins
1st Edition
By Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui
August 06, 2013
What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? ...