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  • - Lessons Learned, Implications for the Future
     
    1.800,95 kr.

    The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently.

  • - Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship
    af Esther Ngan-ling Chow & Evangelia Tastsoglou
    1.713,95 kr.

    In the globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. This book examines the complexity of citizenship in historical and contemporary contexts. It covers various issues such as immigration, ethnicity, class, and nationality.

  • - U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
    af Paige Whaley Eager
    474,95 - 1.807,95 kr.

    Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By examining how U.S. military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war.

  • - Why Agency and Rights are not Enough
    af Leah Briones
    500,95 - 1.716,95 kr.

    Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this book breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.

  • - From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping
    af Carol Harrington
    500,95 - 1.715,95 kr.

    Traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem. This book explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity, and why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period.

  • - Gender and Forced Migration
    af Catherine Nolin
    550,95 - 1.805,95 kr.

    A key development in international migration is the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention focuses on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage earners. This book draws on a range of interests; from scholars interested in refugee studies to students in various disciplines.

  • af Teresa Healy
    355,95 - 1.105,95 kr.

  • - Member States and Governance in the European Union
    af Anna van der Vleuten
    503,95 - 1.713,95 kr.

    Presents a theoretically guided empirical analysis of gender equality policies in the European Union. This book states that a theoretical framework is required which is able to explain the changing fortunes of women's activism, the changing attitudes of European institutions and the behaviour of member states in a multi-level setting.

  • - The Global Politics of Children born of Wartime Sexual Violence
    af Donna Seto
    450,95 - 1.712,95 kr.

    Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery. In considering this.

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    551,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity.

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    1.705,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity. The collection makes an important and timely contribution to interdisciplinary feminist theorizing of silence, voice and agency in global politics.

  • - Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims
    af Ramona (University of Technology Sydney Vijeyarasa
    525,95 kr.

  • - Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries
    af Stine Thidemann Faber
    572,95 kr.

  • - Embodiments, Discourses and Symbolic Practices
    af Georg Frerks
    525,95 kr.

  • - Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
     
    658,95 kr.

    This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. It investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics and the state of gendered policy making.

  • af Jen Dickinson
    466,95 - 1.164,95 kr.

    Body and State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies.

  • - The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
     
    1.798,95 kr.

    In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups, experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social inequality and violence. This situation is particularly evident for the northern borderlands of Mexico and Morocco. The geopolitical position of these regions is defined by their strong existing asymmetry with their neighbouring countries: the United States, in the case of Mexico, and the Mediterranean European countries, in the case of Morocco. This book contributes to the understanding of current changes in the workplace, in family, in sexuality and sexual violence within the setting of the borderlands.

  • - Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security
    af Rosalind Boyd
    661,95 - 1.712,95 kr.

    Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender.

  • - Cross-national Analysis
    af Lana Obradovic
    525,95 - 1.898,95 kr.

    Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, these states have dramatically increased women's numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions.

  • - The Relevance of the Millennium Goals
     
    1.902,95 kr.

    The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women.

  • - Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis
    af Erin K. Baines
    574,95 kr.

    Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies.

  • - Conflict and Consensus Building
    af Anna Christine Snyder
    550,95 - 1.588,95 kr.

    In this work, Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women.

  • - Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
     
    1.896,95 kr.

    This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. It investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics and the state of gendered policy making.

  • - War Stories and Camouflaged Politics
    af Kim Rygiel
    657,95 - 1.709,95 kr.

    The war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation and effects of this US-led aggression. This book examines the official war stories being told to the international community about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged.

  • - Changing Perspectives and Practices
    af Francien van Driel
    588,95 kr.

    It is frequently assumed that globalization has the same features and impact around the globe, such as the feminization of poverty, labour and even peace. These ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, where they settle practically as truths and become global orthodoxies. This book is about deconstructing those orthodoxies.

  • - Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective
    af Asst Prof Amy Lind & Professor Marianne H. Marchand
    658,95 - 1.811,95 kr.

    Drawing from feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships, and Bordered/Borderland Identities, this book features feminist scholars who methodically examine how the production of feminist knowledge has occurred in this region.

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    1.707,95 kr.

    This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings whilst deliberating on 'islandness' as part of the intersectional analysis.

  • - Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia
    af Mona Lilja
    658,95 - 1.799,95 kr.

    Departing from James Scott's idea that oppression and resistance are in constant change, Resisting Gendered Norms provides us with a compelling account on the nexus between gender, resistance and gender-based violence in Cambodia. To illustrate how resistance is often carried out in the tension between, on the one hand.

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