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Gender in a Global/Local World


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Gender in a Global/Local World critically explores the uneven and often contradictory ways in which global processes and local identities come together. Much has been and is being written about globalization and responses to it but rarely from a critical, historical, gendered perspective. Yet, these processes are profoundly gendered albeit in different ways in particular contexts and times. The changes in social, cultural, economic and political institutions and practices alter the conditions under which women and men make and remake their lives. New spaces have been created - economic, political, social - and previously silent voices are being heard. North-South dichotomies are being undermined as increasing numbers of people and communities are exposed to international processes through migration, travel, and communication, even as marginalization and poverty intensify for many in all parts of the world. The series features monographs and collections which explore the tensions in a ’global/local world’, and includes contributions from all disciplines in recognition that no single approach can capture these complex processes.

Please contact one of the editors if you have a proposal for consideration:

Jane Parpart: [email protected]

Marianne H. Marchand: [email protected]

Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel: [email protected]

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Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces Cross-national Analysis

Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces: Cross-national Analysis

1st Edition

By Lana Obradovic
October 31, 2016

Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic...

The Search for Lasting Peace Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security

The Search for Lasting Peace: Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security

1st Edition

By Rosalind Boyd
October 19, 2016

Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the ...

Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective

Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective

1st Edition

By Amy Lind, Anne Sisson Runyan, Marianne H. Marchand
October 10, 2016

Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies, which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. These tensions have ...

Body/State

Body/State

1st Edition

By Jen Dickinson, Angus Cameron
September 08, 2016

Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern ...

Gender Transitions Along Borders The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

1st Edition

Edited By Marlene Solis
June 10, 2016

In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups; experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social inequality and violence. This situation is ...

'Innocent Women and Children' Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians

'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians

1st Edition

By R. Charli Carpenter
May 28, 2006

Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in ...

Contours of Citizenship Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship

Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship

1st Edition

By Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Margaret Abraham, Evangelia Tastsoglou
April 28, 2010

In an increasingly globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. At the same time, with the rise of neo-liberalism, welfare state retrenchment, decline of state employment, ...

No Place for a War Baby The Global Politics of Children born of Wartime Sexual Violence

No Place for a War Baby: The Global Politics of Children born of Wartime Sexual Violence

1st Edition

By Donna Seto
April 04, 2013

Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery. The focus on children born of wartime sexual violence questions the framework of understanding war and recognizes that certain individuals are often ...

Encountering the Transnational Women, Islam and the Politics of Interpretation

Encountering the Transnational: Women, Islam and the Politics of Interpretation

1st Edition

By Meena Sharify-Funk
April 15, 2008

When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? Addressing this question, Meena Sharify-Funk encountered women activists and intellectuals in North America, the ...

Development in an Insecure and Gendered World The Relevance of the Millennium Goals

Development in an Insecure and Gendered World: The Relevance of the Millennium Goals

1st Edition

Edited By Jacqueline Leckie
December 28, 2009

The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women. The most relevant ...

Politicization of Sexual Violence From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping

Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping

1st Edition

By Carol Harrington
March 28, 2010

In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an ...

Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance

Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer
August 28, 2010

Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored their gender impact. For the first time, this ...

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