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Global Gender Research

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim

Published February 4th 2009 by Routledge – 370 pages

Series: Perspectives on Gender

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Description

Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.

This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist sociological gender and women's studies research in four regions of the world—Africa, Asia, Latin America/the Caribbean, and Europe—as represented by many countries. The introductory essay to each region explains how social science research on women and/or gender issues has been shaped by economics, politics, and culture, and by trends that are simultaneously local, regional, and global. It familiarizes readers with the wide range of salient issues, research methods, writing styles, and leading authors from around the globe.

Each regional section includes several chapters on gender research in specific countries that represent the region's diversity and cover the major theoretical and empirical trends that have emerged over time, as well as the relationship of key research questions to feminist activism and women’s or gender studies. Next, the editors illustrate this new wave of gender scholarship with translated/reprinted samples of research articles from additional countries in the region, that cover a wide range of important global topics—such as work, sexuality, masculinities, childcare and family issues, religion, violence, law and gender policies. Finally, this volume provides scholars with extensive bibliographies and a listing of web sites for women’s and gender research centers in 85 countries.

Reviews

"Global Gender Research offers an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of feminist sociological inquiries around the world. A great choice for undergraduate classrooms and a useful reference for any feminist academic."

–Rhacel Parreñas, American Civilization, Brown University

"Bose and Kim have skillfully woven together a collection of essays of breathtaking scope to provide an overview of contemporary cutting edge gender research in the social sciences from around the globe. The volume is certain to be of interest to a wide range of social scientists, women’s rights activists, students, and others engaged with women’s rights concerns."

—Aili Mari Tripp, Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"This excellent edited collection captures the vibrancy and range of contemporary gender research by foregrounding the diversity of women’s lives, the complexity of gendered struggles, and collective accomplishments of women activists fighting for social, economic, and political justice in very different contexts."

—Nancy A. Naples, Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut

"…the resulting complexity provides richness and depth that many other books on research and gender studies lack. …The editors hoped to produce a volume that would 'help transform the social science disciplines and women's studies by truly bringing international native/indigenous gender scholarship to the United States, as well as other countries' (p. xiii). There is doubt that their goal has been met in this book's comprehensive and unique examination of social science research and its relation to women's and gender studies on a global level."

—Kelly Barrick, Feminist Collections Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2010

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to Global Gender Studies, Christine E. Bose and Minjeong Kim

I. Latin America and the Caribbean

Introductory Essay: Gender Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Bose

and Acosta-Belén

Overviews of Latin American and Caribbean Gender Research:

(Cuba) Marta Núñez Sarmiento, "Gender Studies in Cuba: Methodological Approaches, 1974-2001." Gender & Society Vol. 17, No. 1 (February 2003), pp. 7-32.

(Puerto Rico) Alice E. Colón Warren, "Puerto Rico: Feminism and Feminist Studies." Vol. 17, No. 5 (October 2003), pp. 664-690.

(South/Central America)

Costa Rica/Central America comparisons: Monserrat Sagot, "Relations in Dispute: Conflict and Cooperation between Academia and the Feminist Movement in Central America."

(English-speaking Caribbean)—Rhoda Reddock, "Caribbean Feminist Theorizing and Research: Trends and Challenges."

Sample Readings from Latin American and Caribbean Gender Research:

1. Puerto Rico - Crespo Kebler, Elizabeth. 2001. "Ciudadanía y nación: Debates sobre los derechos reproductivos en Puerto Rico." [Citizenship and Nation: Debates over Reproductive Rights in Puerto Rico] Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Nueva Época

2. Brazil—to be selected.

3. Post-Authoritarian or post communist neo-liberal regime Essay Nicaragua

II. Africa

Short Introductory Essay: Gender Studies in Africa, Bose, Kim and Beoku-Betts

Overviews of African Gender Research:

(Sub-Saharan Africa) Josephine Beoku-Betts, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Wairimu Njambi, and Mary Osirim, "Women’s and Gender Studies in English Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences." Gender & Society Vol.18, No. 6 (December 2004).

Sample Readings from African Gender Research:

1. (Sub-Saharan Africa—English reprint)—Ayesha Iman, on Nigeria

2. (Africa reprint)— original reading, from French-speaking countries, e.g. Fatou Sow

3. (Africa reprint)— original reading to be selected from Portuguese-speaking countries

III. Asia and the Middle East

Short Introductory Essay: Gender Studies in Asia and the Middle East, Bose and Kim

Overviews of Asian and Middle Eastern Gender Research:

(India) Bandana Purkayastha, Manisha Desai, Mangala Subramaniam, Sunita Bose,"The Study of Gender in India: A Partial Review." Gender & Society Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 2003): 503-524.

(China) Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Naihua Zhang, and Wang Jinling, "Promising and Contested Fields: Women’s Studies and Sociology of Women/Gender in Contemporary China." Gender & Society Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2004): 161-188.

(Middle East: Iran)—Shahla Ezazi, "Iran in Middle Eastern Context." .

Sample Readings from Asian and Middle Eastern Gender Research:

1. Vietnam, Philippines, or other Southeast Asia—reading to be selected.

2. Japan or Korea—reading to be selected.

3. Turkey or Egypt—Muslim country—reading to be selected

4. Israel reprint—reading to be selected or eliminate.

IV. Eastern Europe/Western Europe

Short Introductory Essay: European Gender Studies, Bose and Kim

Overviews of European Gender Research:

(Eastern Europe: Hungary)—Éva Fodor, "Hungary in Central European Context."

(Western Europe: Spain)—Celia Valiente, "An Overview of Research on Gender in Spanish Society." Gender & Society Vol. 16, No. 6 (December 2002), pp. 767-792.

(Western Europe: Germany)—Gundrun Axeli Knapp, University of Hannover, "Traveling Theories- Situated Questions: Feminist Theory in the German Context."

Sample Readings from European Gender Research:

1. European Union and Gender Mainstreaming—reading to be selected.

2. Romania, Russia, or Poland reprint—reading to be selected.

3. Scandinavian reprint—reading to be selected. Norway vs. Sweden

Detailed Table of Contents

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