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Women and Inequality in a Changing World Exploring New Paradigms for Peace
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political, social, and economic—which persist despite the growth in the education of girls, large-scale social movements, and political waves.
The volume widens and deepens understanding of women in relation to the inequalities they face, based not only on gender, but also on race, class, religion, and more. It also highlights the progress that women have made, and how this progress contributes to the creation of more peaceful and prosperous societies. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to provide a wide range of perspectives and experiences, examine crucial questions, and offer new ideas and innovative solutions to increasing the role of women moving forward.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, women’s studies, and political science, as well as practitioners working at the intersection of women and global issues.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Please note that Chapter 6 is excluded from this Creative Commons license. Pieces of this chapter were previously published in: Golan, G., ‘Autobiographical Note’ in Galia Golan: An Academic Pioneer on the Soviet Union, Peace and Conflict Studies, and a Peace and Feminist Activist (PAHSEP, Vol. 22), published 2018, Springer International Publishing, reproduced with permission of SNCSC. The author is grateful to the publisher for permission to reuse the material, which is still copyright protected and owned by the publisher.
Introduction: Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace
HODA MAHMOUDI
PART I
Transformation, Intervention, and Disruption, Before and Now
1 Historical Antecedents: African American Women’s Enduring Commitment to an Intersectional Peace
BRANDY THOMAS WELLS
2 Chicanas and Latinas in the Academic Borderlands: Resistance, Empowerment, and Agency
DENISE SEGURA
3 Interrogating the Image of the ‘21st Century Woman’
LAURA SJOBERG
PART II
Activating Rights and Securing Institutional Equality
4 Does Corporate Social Responsibility Matter to Gender Inequality During Times of Crisis?
JINYOUNG LEE, C.K. LEE AND JANE L. PARPART
5 The Untapped Potential of the Human Security Paradigm for Indian Women Construction Workers: The Gender, Agency, Human Security Nexus
CHANTAL A. KRCMAR
6 What Blocks Equality for Women?: Recollections from a Feminist Life
GALIA GOLAN
PART III
Challenging Boundaries, Subverting Expectations, and Emphasizing Potential
7 Shifting Perceptions of Women in the World: The Implications of Place, Space, and Time
KATE SEAMAN AND HODA MAHMOUDI
8 Exploring the Power of Silence, Voice and the In-between in a Troubled World
JANE L. PARPART
9 Paradise Lost, Paradigm Found?: Revisiting Assumptions for a New Paradigm for Women in the World
TIFFANI BETTS RAZAVI
Conclusion: Women and the Potential for New Paradigms for Peace
KATE SEAMAN, HODA MAHMOUDI AND JANE L. PARPART
Biography
Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and has held the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, she collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace.
Jane L. Parpart is Emeritus Professor and former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development at Dalhousie University, Canada; and Adjunct Research Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Carleton University, Canada, the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies Department at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She specializes in gender analysis, class implications, and the importance of thinking about both gender and class with a global perspective.
Kate Seaman is Assistant Director of the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, USA. Her research interests include the concept of state responsibility, United Nations peacekeeping operations, global security governance, the ethics of inter- national interventions, and the development of the responsibility to protect.
