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Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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First Published in 2004. This volume is a collection of the papers from an annual conference in February 1993 of the women’s sections of the British Sociological Association and the Political Studies Association at the London School of Economics. Its focus was ‘Gender, Sexuality and Identity: Commonalities and Difference’. With the exception of Valerie Bryson’s chapter and the introductory... Read more
Chapter 1 Gender, ethnicity and cultural identity: womens ‘places’, Nickie Charles, Helen Hintjens; Chapter 2 Founding fathers and earth mothers, Sarah Benton; Chapter 3 Identity: feminist perspectives on ‘race’, ethnicity and nationality, Sheila Allen; Chapter 4 The logics of exclusion, Mirjana Morokvasic; Chapter 5 When society was simple, Eleonore Kofman; Chapter 6 Strategies of resistance among the Muslim minority in West Yorkshire, Haleh Afshar; Chapter 7 Citizen warriors, workers and mothers, Valerie Bryson; Chapter 8 Women's activism, authoritarianism and democratisation in Chile, Georgina Waylen; Chapter 9 Beyond differences, Nira Yuval-Davis;
Biography
Nickie Charles is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Wales Swansea., Helen Hintjens is a Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea.
'I think it is imprtant reading for all development practitioners...This book enables readers from all backgrounds to develop a firm grasp of these important concepts, and to understand how they affetc women in particular.' - Development in Practice, Vol 9. No.3 1999
