Bøger i Routledge International Studies of Women and Place serien

Explores the geographies of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development. Case studies examine these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies.

This volume, a feminist inquiry into the landscape, provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place and landscape interpretations.

Investigates the impact of relocation on gender and family relations among transnational professionals.

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 Asia-Pacific region.

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world.

This work examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arise from this kind of movement.

Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America and Asia, this book challenges traditional development practices of North over South, arguing for the inclusion of issues such as identity and political action as the way forward.

"Who Will Mind the Baby?" explores how working mothers negotiate their responsibilities and contrasts the limited childcare policies of the United States and Canada with the more advanced situation in Europe and Australia.

This text analyzes the impact of the occupier/occupied relationship on Palestinian and Jewish women. Exposing a set of previously unarticulated internal conflicts and differences, it discusses their existing loyalties, reinforced as different groups of women have moved into political action.

Describes the very different lives of women in developed and developing countries from childhood to old age, analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course.

Discussing both historical developments and contemporary events Women Divided offers topical and important new perspectives on issues of gender and sectarianism in Northern Ireland.

Gender, Planning and Human Rights explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development.