ISBN:
9780582320246
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (475 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Geographies of New Femininities
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Geographies of New Femininities examines the emergence of contemporary constructions of femininity in a global context. It asks whether these femininities are new and suggests that current celebrations of diversity in the lived experience and performance of women's identities are largely Euro-centric.Through four in-depth case studies Geographies of New Femininities illustrates how constructions of femininities across the world reflect gender inequalities embedded within global/local geographies of social and economic change. The analysis brings together key themes in geography and feminist st
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: geographies and new femininities; Introduction; What are 'femininities'?; Geographies and femininities; Outline of the book; 2 Changing worlds? Changing femininities?; Introduction; Globalising economies, cultures and politics; Fractured and fracturing identities; Spaces of oppression or spaces of opportunity? The emergence of new femininities; Conclusion; 3 Working with genders and geographies; Introduction; The research projects
Description / Table of Contents:
Working in 'the field' with power and positionalityWorking with 'gender'; Working through geographies; Conclusions; 4 The shifting geographies of femininity and emergency work in Peru; Introduction; Crisis and emergency employment in Peru; PAIT: new spaces for women?; Multiple and fractured identities; Shifting the ground of public/private and home and work; Superseding boundaries; Conclusion; 5 Reproducing motherhood; Introduction; The changing context of mothering in Britain; The Sheffield case study; Mapping mothering; Configuring geographies and new femininities; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Contested territories: women's neighbourhood activism and German reunificationIntroduction; Problematic relations between eastern German women and politics; The case study: neighbourhood activism in Leipzig; Learning the ropes: women's changing political subjectivities in neighbourhood action; Reworking local political femininities and their geographies; Conclusion; 7 Negotiations of femininity and identity for young British Muslim women; Introduction; Theorising about young women and femininity; The research context; Debating 'appropriate' femininities
Description / Table of Contents:
Negotiating 'appropriate' femininitiesConstructing alternative Muslim femininities; Negotiations of femininity and identity: imagining futures; Conclusion; 8 Configuring and reconfiguring geographies; Introduction; Geographical constitution of femininities; Reconfiguring change; Conclusion; 9 New femininities; Introduction; New femininities?; Reworking femininities; The geographies of new femininities; Further reading; Emergency work and 'workfare'; Peru: political economy; Gender identities in Latin America; Motherhood and mothering; Childcare
Description / Table of Contents:
Women in eastern Europe and the post-Soviet statesWomen in the GDR and German reunification; German reunification; Femininity and adolescent girls; The theorisation of 'new ethnicities'; Islam in Britain; Identities of young British South Asian women; Debates about the veil; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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