Gender category: 10444 books
by Janet Henshall Momsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
In third world countries gender roles are different from those in western countries. This reality is of utmost interest for development policy makers. planners and project designers from donor countries.
More often than not, development projects, sponsored and implemented by western organizations,...
by Seema Shekhawat, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Antal Berkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace...
Gender and Food
From Production to Consumption and After
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Volume 22 explores the complex relationships between gender and food in a variety of locations and time periods using a range of research methods. Authors show that gender inequality and men’s dominance are implicit or explicit, and that in times of both stability and change, the burden of many...
The Gender Knot
Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
New Third Edition!
The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn't, how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something about it. Johnson's simple...
Gender Matters in Global Politics
A Feminist Introduction to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account...
Femicide, Gender and Violence
Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part...
Gender and Lifelong Learning
Critical Feminist Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused...
by Adem Yavuz Elveren
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the brain drain from Turkey, with particular focus on its gender dimension. The author presents a review of brain drain literature, as well as analyzing the brain drain from Turkey using original survey data. Presenting an account of state changes in...
Countering Gender Violence
Initiatives Towards Collective Action in Rajasthan
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Using rural Rajasthan as a case study, the author of this volume explores some crucial issues relating to the lives of the women in this region, and concludes that understanding violence and responses to violence are strongly influenced by cultural contexts and norms.
The book: provides a theoretical...
by Christian Gonzales, Kalpana Kochhar, Monique Newiak
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of income inequality. The study analyzes gender inequality by using and extending the United Nation’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) to cover two decades for...
by Kathleen McLaughlin, Raushan Nauryzbayeva
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This publication develops a strategic focus for integrating gender concerns into programs and operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Kazakhstan. This assessment reviews ADB's experiences in implementing gender mainstreaming in its portfolio in recent years. The assessment method has two...
Men of the World
Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
"Men of the World will be seized upon by academics and activists facing up to the persistence, proliferation and transnationalization of patriarchies."
- Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London and University of Warwick
"This is an important, thought-provoking and incredibly...
Sport, Gender and Power
The Rise of Roller Derby
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women’s sport and an everyday...
Gender Injustice
An International Comparative Analysis of Equality in Employment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Gender equality and the importance of the law in combating discrimination are issues explored by this insightful work. Gender Injustice allows readers a better understanding of the issue of inequality and aims to increase the likelihood of achieving gender justice in the future. It investigates equality...