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 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 ...
Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Esther Wangari
October 08, 1996
Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City.Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern ...
Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon, Janice Monk
August 30, 1996
Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States.The authors also analyze how women's work and daily lives are shaped by local ...
Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne H Marchand, Jane L. Parpart
August 28, 1995
In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development.Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this...
Gender, Work and Space
1st Edition
By Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt
April 25, 1995
Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the ...
Women's Voices from the Rainforest
1st Edition
By Janet Gabriel Townsend
February 16, 1995
Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.International development policy and its ...
Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change
1st Edition
By Tamar Mayer
December 08, 1994
The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at a monumental juncture in their histories. Both have a chance to claim a new future but more than a quarter of a century of occupation has had significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological and moral ramifications for Israeli ...
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Nicky Gregson, Michelle Lowe
September 12, 1994
Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new...
Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivian Kinnaird, Janet Momsen
January 22, 1993
Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed by the voices of female geographers from the ...