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.
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Henshall Momsen
May 03, 2013
This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including: legal and empowerment issues, cultural and language diversities and barriers, and the impact of live-in employment.The book features case studies taken from Europe, South ...
Gender, Migration and the Dual Career Household
1st Edition
By Irene Hardill
May 29, 2012
This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author links research in economics, sociology, management and business and human geography to explore post-industrial managerial and professional careers. ...
Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis, Sara McLafferty
August 25, 2011
This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors...
Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Space
1st Edition
By Robyn Longhurst
August 16, 2011
Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the, ...
Gender and Agrarian Reforms
1st Edition
By Susie Jacobs
August 15, 2011
The redistribution of land has profound implications for women and for gender relations; however, gender issues have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions of agrarian reform. This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally. Jacobs ...
Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Coles, Anne-Meike Fechter
August 15, 2011
While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the ...
Gender and Rurality
1st Edition
By Lia Bryant, Barbara Pini
August 15, 2011
The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center. The authors...
Female Sex Trafficking in Asia: The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World
1st Edition
By Vidyamali Samarasinghe
June 22, 2009
Trafficking of women and girls for purposes of sexual exploitation across the globe is widely acknowledged as a leading criminal activity. Women of poor countries are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking. This book identifies the patterns, causes and consequences of female sex trafficking in ...
Gender and Landscape: Renegotiating the moral landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Josephine Carubia, Lorraine Dowler, Bonj Szczygiel
March 06, 2009
Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into a long-ignored area of study: the landscape. Although there has been an exhaustive investigation into issues of gender as they intersect with space and place, very little has been written about the gendering of the landscape. This volume provides a ...
Gender, Planning and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Tovi Fenster
January 29, 1999
Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these ...
Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland
1st Edition
By Rosemary Sales
August 07, 1997
The ongoing Irish peace process has renewed interest in the current social and political problems of Northern Ireland. In bringing together the issues of gender and inequality, Women Divided, a title in the International Studies of Women and Place series, offers new perspectives on women's rights ...
Who Will Mind the Baby?: Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim England
November 06, 1996
One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Child care policy, provision and funding has in no way kept up with this change. Who Will Mind the Baby? explores how working ...