Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

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1. Geographies of Women's Health

   Place, Diversity and Difference

   Edited by Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis, Sara McLafferty

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
2. Maternities

   Gender, Bodies and Space

   By Robyn Longhurst

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the, ...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
3. Gender and Rurality

   By Lia Bryant, Barbara Pini

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center. The authors...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals

   Edited by Anne Coles, Anne-Meike Fechter

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Gender and Agrarian Reforms

   By Susie Jacobs

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   The redistribution of land has profound implications for women and for gender relations; however, gender issues have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions of agrarian reform. This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally. Jacobs...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Women, Religion, and Space in China

   Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

   By Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty?...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean

   Envisioning a Politics of Coalition

   By Michelle V. Rowley

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
8. Female Sex Trafficking in Asia

   The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World

   By Vidyamali Samarasinghe

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Trafficking of women and girls for purposes of sexual exploitation across the globe is widely acknowledged as a leading criminal activity. Women of poor countries are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking. This book identifies the patterns, causes and consequences of female sex trafficking in...

   Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
9. Gender and Landscape

   Renegotiating the moral landscape

   Edited by Josephine Carubia, Lorraine Dowler, Bonj Szczygiel

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   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...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
10. Gender, Migration and the Dual Career Household

    By Irene Hardill

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author links research in economics, sociology, management and business and human geography to explore post-industrial managerial and professional careers....

    Published September 4th 2002 by Routledge