| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : map |
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Perspectives on gender |
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Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Introduction to transnational and local issues / Christine E. Bose, Minjeong Kim -- Introduction to gender research in Africa / Mary Johnson Osirim, Christine E. Bose, Minjeong Kim -- Women's and gender studies in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa : a review of research in the social sciences / Akosua Adomako Ampofo, [and others] -- Trading goes global : Ghanaian market women in an era of globalization / Akosua K. Darkwah -- Feminine injustice / Conceição Osório, Eulália Temba -- Women, the sacred and the state / Fatou Sow -- Introduction to gender research in Asia and the Middle East / Minjeong Kim, Christine E. Bose -- Promising and contested fields : advancing women's studies and sociology of women/gender in contemporary China / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Naihua Zhang, Wang Jinling -- Study of gender in India : a partial review / Bandana Purkayastha, [and others] -- Women's studies in Iran : the roles of activists and scholars / Shahla Ezazi -- Masculinity and anti-Americanism : focusing on the identity of KATUSA / Insook Kwon -- Gender, development and HIV/AIDS in Vietnam : towards an alternative response model among women sex workers / Van Huy Nguyen, Udoy Sankar Saikia, Thi Minh An Dao -- Fufubessei movement in Japan : thinking about women's resistance and subjectivity / Ki-Young Shin -- Between the dynamics of the global and the local : feminist and gender research in Latin America and the Caribbean / Edna Acosta-Belén -- Relations in dispute : conflict and cooperation between academia and the feminist movements in Central America / Montserrat Sagot, Ana C. Escalante -- Puerto Rico : feminism and feminist studies / Alice E. Colón Warren -- Gender studies in Cuba : methodological approaches, 1974-2007 / Marta Núñez Sarmiento -- Feminist research and theory : contributions from the Anglophone Caribbean / Rhoda Reddock -- Trade unions and women's labor rights in Argentina / Graciela di Marco -- In the fabric of Brazilian sexuality / Maria Luiza Heilborn -- Citizenship and nation : debates on reproductive rights in Puerto Rico / Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler -- Introduction to gender research in Europe / Christine E. Bose, Minjeong Kim -- Traveling theories--situated questions : feminist theory in the German context / Gudrun-Axeli Knapp -- Overview of research on gender in Spanish society / Celia Valiente -- At the crossroads of 'East' and 'West' : gender studies in Hungary / Eva Fodor, Eszter Varsa -- Rest is silence ... : Polish nationalism and the question of lesbian existence / Joanna Mizielińska -- Collective organizing and claim making on child care in Norden : blurring the boundaries between the inside and the outside / Solveig Bergman -- Integrating or setting the agenda? : gender mainstreaming in the European constitution-making process / Emanuela Lombardo |
| Summary |
This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist sociological gender research and/or women's studies research for five regions of the world, represented by ten or 11 countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Sex role and globalization -- Cross-cultural studies
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Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies
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Gender identity -- Cross-cultural studies
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Feminist theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Feminist theory
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Gender identity
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Sex role and globalization
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Women -- Social conditions
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Geschlechterrolle
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Feminismus
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Kulturvergleich
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Geschlechterforschung
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Globalisierung
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bose, Christine E.
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Kim, Minjeong.
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| LC no. |
2008034063 |
| ISBN |
9781136083464 |
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1136083464 |
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9780203625217 |
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0203625218 |
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9781136083549 |
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1136083545 |
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9781136083624 |
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1136083626 |
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