Gender and the local-global nexus theory, research, and action

The nine papers in this volume have a world in which the local/global connection is salient as background. Examining gender and its implications for feminist action within this setting, they fall into three overlapping categories. The first, theory, involves the theoretical consideration of gender a...

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Other Authors Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2006.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesAdvances in gender research ; v. 10.
Subjects
Sex role.
Sex discrimination.
Globalization > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504133
184950413X
0762313129
ISSN1529-2126 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2126(2006)10
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 228 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: gender and the local-global nexus - theory, research, and action / Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
  • Thinking of gender in a holistic sense: understandings of gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia / Sharyn Graham Davies
  • Variations in masculinity from a cross-cultural perspective / Edwin S. Segal
  • Is there a need to (un)gender the past? / Denise Pahl Schaan
  • Young people's attitudes to gender issues: Asian perspectives / Chilla Bulbeck
  • A comparative analysis of sex role ideology in Canada, Mexico and the United States / Richard J. Harris, Juanita M. Firestone, Paul J. Bryan
  • The "free university of women:" reflections on the conditions for a feminist politics of knowledge / Paola Melchiori
  • Spy or feminist: "grrrila" research on the margin / Elizabeth L. Sweet
  • Marketing social change after communism: the case of domestic violence in Slovakia / Magdalena Vanya
  • life history as narrative subversion: older Mexican women resist authority, assert identity, and claim power / Tracy B. Citeroni.

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