ISBN:
9780857247445
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0857247441
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 310 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Advances in gender research 1529-2126 v. 15
Series Statement:
Advances in gender research v. 15
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Analyzing gender, intersectionality, and multiple inequalities
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Sex discrimination Congresses
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Gender identity Congresses
;
Sex role Congresses
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Equality Congresses
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Sex discrimination Congresses
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Gender identity Congresses
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Sex role Congresses
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Equality Congresses
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Social Science
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Social Science ; Gender Studies
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Social Science ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Social Science ; General
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Gender studies, gender groups
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Sociology
;
Equality
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Gender identity
;
Sex discrimination
;
Sex role
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Conference proceedings
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
The papers in this volume were selected and revised from among those presented at the conference: Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational, and Local Realities and Perspectives, Beijing, China in 2009. Through case studies and interview data from across the globe we see how intersectionality and inequality are contextualized shaping womens agencies, gender relations, identity, the politics of belonging, power structures, institutional arrangements, and empowerment (self and/or collective) in local communities and cultures influenced by transnational and global networks and processes. Those who experience inequality, the politics of exclusion and social injustice by virtue of gender, ethnicity and/or class and other differences are the most vulnerable in the face of new adversities, including those that occur in response to globalization. Broader theoretical and methodological contexts for these nation- and region-specific studies are provided in essays by leading gender theorists. Divisions of labor, migration, war and peace-building are among the specific topics addressed in papers from China, India, Israel, Korea, Northern Ireland, Turkey, and the United States
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
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