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.
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
Edited
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? ...
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 ...