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Aquilar, D. D. and A. E. Lacsamana, Eds. (2004). Women and Globalization.
New York, Humanity Books.
Despite promises from Western policy makers and financial institutions that capitalist globalization will eventually improve the economic welfare of all nations, overwhelming evidence thus far indicates that it has not only succeeded in enriching the few at the expense of the many. It has also created an international division of labor in which a female proletariat, composed primarily of women of color, is consigned to the lowest-paid and least secure jobs with the worst working conditions. Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana have assembled a provocative collection of articles showing the various ways in which the neoliberal agenda of globalization has drawn women into productive labor and in the process radically reshaped their lives in the reproductive sphere. Implemented primarily through the structural adjustment programs required by international financial agencies, neoliberalism has intensified women's exploitation on the assembly line and spawned an unprecedented diaspora of women as mail-order brides, domestic helpers, and workers in the sex trade. Many of the essays describe the appalling conditions that characterize these work sites. Not less important, they underscore the vitality of grassroots organizations where women collectively wage battles for better work lives and envision a system more humane than what currently exists.
Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborn
Women. Durham and London, Duke University Press.
This book takes the process of "reading the body" into fields at the forefront of culture -- the vast spaces mapped by science and technology -- to show that the body in a high-tech world is as gendered as ever. From female bodybuilding to virtual reality images, from cosmetic surgery to cyberpunk, from reproductive medicine to public health policies to TV science programs, Anne Balsamo articulates the key issues concerning the status of the body for feminist cultural studies in a postmodern world. Technologies of the Gendered Body combine close readings of popular texts-- such as Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, the movie Pumping Iron II:The Women, cyberpunk magazines, and mass media-- with analyses of medical literature, public policy documents, and specific technological practices. Balsamo describes the ways in which certain biotechnologies are ideologically shaped by gender considerations and other beliefs about race, physical abilities, and economic and legal status. She presents a view of the conceptual system that structures individuals' access to and participation in these technologies, as well as an overview of individuals' rights and responsibilities in this sometimes baffling area. Examining the ways in which the body is gendered in its interactions with new technologies of corporeality, Technologies of the Gendered Body counters the claim that in our scientific culture the material body has become obsolete.
Bartlett, R. L. (1997). Introducing Race and Gender into Economics. London and New York, Routledge.
Economics has tended to be a very male, middle class, white discipline. Introducing Race and Gender into Economics is a ground-breaking book which generates ideas for integrating race and gender issues into introductory eocnomics courses. Each section gives an overview of how to modify standard courses, including macroeconomics, methodology, microeconomics as well as race and gender-sensitive issues. This up-to-date work will be of increasing importance to all teachers of introductory economics.
Beneria, L. (2003). Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics
as if All People Mattered. New York and London, Routledge.
This book examines the ways in which feminist analysis has made inroads into the highly technical debates and prophesies of international development and Globalization. Gender, Development, and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics for any student of global economics and development interested in a gendered perspective.
Betty, R. A. (1993). Women and Peace: Feminist Visions of Gobal Security (Suny Series, Global Conflict and Peace Education) Albany, State University of New York.
This is an excellent book on global policy developments that have occurred since 1945 and the founding of the United Nations, particularly surrounding the UN conferences during the International Women's Decade (1975 - 1985). These include the conference in Mexico City, Mexico in 1975 where the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women's Year which called "for the full participation of women in all efforts to promote and maintain peace; The 1980 World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development, and Peace held in Copenhagen Denmark in 1980; and finally the adoption of The Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, adopted at the 1985 World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievement of the United Nations Decade for Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. Using a feminist framework, this book provides an excellent critique of the militarization, patriarchy and all forms of oppression, and takes issue with all forms of violence, particularly against women.
Bosch, G. and S. Lehndorff, Eds. (2005). Working in the Service
Sector: a Tale from Different Worlds. London and New York, Routledge.
It is generally agreed by economists that future employment growth in developed countries will be heavily reliant on the tertiary sector. The reasons behind this important change in employment structure have been the subject of much debate and controversy. The outcomes of these discussions are of decisive importance for economic policy and the quality of working and living conditions in the future. Working in the Service Sector adds to this ongoing debate, using original research and empirical analysis from a wide range of countries. The book examines core issues such as working time, country regimes, working conditions in different employment sectors and flexibility as well as gender and work. The reader is presented with case studies and accompanying analysis for various service industries across different nations. Working in the Service Sector provides an engaging and comprehensive account of this shift in employment structure and will be of great interest to students and academics of economics as well as essential reading for policy makers.
Bouta, T., Frerks, G, Bannon, I. , Ed. (2004). Gender, Conflict and Development. Washington, World Bank Publications
Gender, Conflict, and Development was written as an effort to fill a gap between the Bank's work on gender mainstreaming and its agenda in conflict and development. The authors identify a link between gender and conflict issues and provide the most comprehensive review of external and internal sources on gender and conflict, with a particular focus on policy relevance for an institution such as the Bank. The book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organized around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development. And for each theme it analyzes how conflict changes gender roles and the policy options that might be considered to build on positive aspects while minimizing adverse changes. The suggested policy options and approaches aim to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by violent conflict to encourage change and build more inclusive and gender balanced social, economic and political relations in post-conflict societies. The book concludes by identifying some of the remaining challenges and themes that require additional analysis and research.
Brien, R. O., A. M. Goetz, et al., Eds. (2003). Contesting Global
Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social
Movements. New York and London, Cambridge University Press.
This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors investigate 'complex multilateralism' by studying the relationship between three multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization), and three global social movements (environmental, labour, and women's movements). They provide a rich comparative analysis of the institutional response to social movement pressure, tracing institutional change, policy modification and social movement tactics as they struggle to influence the rules and practices governing trade, finance and development regimes. The competition to shape global governance is increasingly being conducted on a number of levels with a diverse set of actors. Analysing a unique breadth of institutions and movements, this book charts an important part of that contest.
Briggs, L. (2002). Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Los Angeles and London, University of California Press.
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it reveals the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization.
Brush, L. D. (2003). Gender and Governance. Walnut Creek, Lanham,
New York, Toronto, Oxford, AltaMira Press.
"States are where the power lies," and "power is gendered". With these simple statements, Lisa D. Brush turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect. Her gender lens allows a clear assessment of the different effects state power and social policies have on men and women, highlighting both difference and dominance in the governance of gender. She then turns her eye on the way that the state power supports male dominance, the gender of governance. Her nuanced arguments, supported by cases from the United States and other Western political systems, will make this book a useful antidote to traditional textbooks on government, the state, politics, and social policy.
Clark, G., Ed. (2003). Gender at Work in Economic Life. Walnut Creek,
Lanhman, New York, AltaMira Press.
This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the related fields of economics, the sociology of work, gender studies, women's studies, and economic development.
Connor, J. S. O., A. S. Orloff, et al., Eds. (1999). States, Markets,
Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada,
Great Britain and the United States. Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.
Three leading figures in the field make up this important contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in an era of economic restructuring and market liberalism. Structured as thematically and systematically comparative, the book analyzes three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. It explores the question of whether liberal states should intervene in workplaces or families to guarantee the rights and welfare of all individuals within them. The experiences of Canada, the UK, United States and Australia are the focus of the book.
Daly, M. (2000). The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
The Gender Division of Welfare is an ambitious study that raises interesting and important questions concerning the relationship among welfare states, gender differentiation and social inequality. The book traces the consequences of different welfare state and social policy arrangements for women and men and the households in which they live. Mary Daly examines the British and German welfare states showing that both countries differ markedly in the measures they have instituted in various areas.
Digby, A. and J. Stewart, Eds. (1997). Gender, Health & Welfare.
London and New York, Routledge.
The role of gender in shaping social policy is now one of considerable interest and debate. Current controversies over the nature and funding of the welfare state have reopened historical issues. Gender, Health and Welfare deals primarily with the century before the creation of the classic welfare state in Britain. It provides a stimulating introduction to a historical era which saw a huge expansion in welfare services, both state and voluntary, and during which women emerged as significant "consumers" and "providers" of various welfare measures.
Dijkstra, A. G. and J. Plantenga, Eds. (2001). Gender and Economics: A European Perspective. London and New York, Routledge.
Gender and Economics provides an introduction to gender studies in economics. This is a rapidly expanding field in which textbooks are urgently necessary. The contributors give comprehensive coverage of the economic situation of women throughout Europe. The authors approach the subject on three different levels:
_ the economic theory of gender and economics.
_ the different positions of men and women in the economy, their earning power and the division of labour within the family.
_ European policy and law, and how this is evolving.
With its unique balance of theoretical and empirical data, this book will be of great use to students of labour economics. It will also provide a wider view for all students of micro and macro economics.
Donald, J. and A. Rattansi, Eds. (2005). Race, Culture and Difference.
London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Sage Publications.
How does the concept of racism rear its ugly head and fester in society? How do notions of "us'' and "them'', "inclusion'' and "exclusion'', "center'' and "margin'' originate and operate? Bridging cultural studies and political analysis, Race, Culture and Difference presents timely debates on race and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy. Linking feminist, post-structuralist and postmodernist concerns in recent social and cultural theory, it examines the contribution of ideas such as "ethnicity,'' "community,'' "identity,'' and "difference.'' The authors present a sustained yet sympathetic criticism of the organized forms of antiracism that have come to dominate educational policy. Their fresh, new approaches also begin to define an alternative agenda sensitive to the problems and the possibilities of difference. A successful balance between important recent articles and substantial contributions specifically written for this volume, Race, Culture and Difference will prove essential reading for professionals and students of sociology, cultural studies and education, and for those concerned with discrimination and antiracist policies.
Enloe, C. (2000). Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense
of International Politics. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University
of California Press.
Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes--governments restricting imported goods, bankers negotiating foreign loans, soldiers serving overseas--and shows that the real landscape is less exclusively male. Bananas, Beaches and Bases shows how thousands of women tailor their marriages to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers or arms shipments; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts. Enloe also challenges common assumptions about what constitutes "international politics." She explains, for example, how turning tacos and sushi into bland fast foods affects relations between affluent and developing countries, and why a multinational banana company needs the brothel outside its gates. And she argues that shopping at Benneton, wearing Levis, working as a nanny (or employing one) or planning a vacation are all examples of foreign policy in action. Bananas, Beaches and Bases does not ignore our curiosity about arms dealers, the President's men or official secrets. But it shows why these conventional clues are not sufficient for understanding how the international political system works. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "feminity" and "masculinity", Enloe dismantles a seemingly overwhelming world system, exposing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we are usually led to believe.
Fink, J., G. Lewis, et al., Eds. (2001). Rethinking European Welfare.
London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Sage Publications.
Rethinking European Welfare provides a wide-ranging and innovative rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers new ways of analysing European welfare and its future. While acknowledging the importance of research and analysis of policy making in Europe, this Reader addresses a range of other challenging and provocative issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy. It will be essential reading for students of European social policy, social and public administration, social work, sociology, politics, cultural studies and European studies.
Gasson, R. and A. Errington, Eds. (1993). The Farm Family Business.
Wallingford, Cab International.
Farming, as it is practised in market industrialized countries, is predominantly a family business. The central message of this book is that the nature of the farm business cannot be properly understood without reference to the family that operates it. The authors focus not so much on the farm family or the farm business separately, but on the interaction between the two. While many of their illustrations relate to the United Kingdom, examples are also drawn from North America, European Community countries, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand. The general approach is a multidisciplinary one, and the book is aimed at senior students, researchers and policy makers concerned with agricultural economics, policy and management as well as rural sociology, geography and other rural studies.
Gordon, L., Ed. (1990). Women, the State, and Welfare. Madison The
University of Wisconsin Press.
Women, the State, and Welfare is the first collection of essays specifically about women and welfare in the United States. As an introduction to the effects of welfare programs, it is intended for general readers as well as specialists in sociology, history, political science, social work, and women's studies. The book begins with a review essay by Linda Gordon that outlines current scholarship about women and welfare. The chapters that follow explore discrimination against women inherent in many welfare programs; the ways in which welfare programs reinforce basic gender programs in society; the contribution of organized, activist women to the development of welfare programs; and differences of race and class in the welfare system. By giving readers access to a number of perspectives about women and welfare, this book helps position gender at the center of welfare scholarship and policy making and places welfare issues at the forefront of feminist thinking and action.
Hobson, B., J. Lewis, et al., Eds. (2002). Contested Concepts in
Gender and Social Politics. Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, USA, Edward
Elgar.
An important contribution to the current literature on gender and social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy. Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations. The discussion is both international and interdisciplinary, and focuses on topics that include citizenship, social exclusion and inclusion, care, social capital and representation, amongst others. The contributors examine these issues in relation to current policy debates and consider how they are embedded in particular European intellectual traditions. They also explore how feminist scholarship has engaged with these issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations more broadly.
Holmstrom, N., Ed. (2002). The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics. New York, Monthly Review Press.
Socialist feminist theorizing is flourishing today. This collection is intended to show its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an ongoing project. Not every contribution to that project bears the same theoretical label, but the writings collected here share a broad aim of understanding women's subordination in a way which integrates class and gender - as well as aspects of women's identity such as race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation - with the aim of liberating women. The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics brings together the most important recent socialist feminist writings on a wide range of topics: sex and reproduction, the family, wage labor, social welfare and public policy, the place of sex and gender in politics, and the philosophical foundations of socialist feminism. Although focusing on recent writings, the collection shows how these build on a history of struggle. These writings demonstrate the range, depth, and vitality of contemporary socialist feminist debates. They also testify to the distinctive capacity of this project to address issues in a way that embraces collective experience and action while at the same time enabling each person to speak in their own personal voice.
Kofman, E., A. Phizacklea, et al., Eds. (2000). Gender and International
Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics. London and
New York, Routledge.
Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gendered dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistance of racism, deny autonomy and choice to migrant women. This work demonstrates how processes of globalisation and change in state policies on employment and welfare have maintained a demand for diverse forms of gendered immigration. The authors examine state and European Union policies of immigration control, family reunion, refugees and the management of immigrant and ethnic minority communities. Most importantly this work considers the opportunities created for political activity by migrant women and the extent to which they are able to influence and participate in mainstream policy-making. This is volume will be essential reading for anyone involved in or interested in modern European immigration policy.
Leibfried, S. and P. Pierson, Eds. (1995). European Social Policy:
Between Fragmentation and Integration. Washington D.C., The Brookings
Institution.
Rethinking Social Policy is a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the complex mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy. Contributors at the cutting edge of social policy analysis reflect upon the implications of new social and theoretical movements for welfare and the study of social policy. Topics covered include: criminology and crime control; race, class and gender; poverty and sexuality; the body and the emotions; violence; work and welfare in Europe. Examples are drawn from a variety of welfare sectors such as: social services and community care, health, education, employment, and criminal justice. This is a course reader for The Open University course (D860) "Rethinking Social Practice."
Lewis, J., Ed. (1993). Women and Social Politics in Europe: Work, Family and the State. Vermont, Edward Elgar Publishing Co.
This thoroughly documented book provides, for the first time, an overview of social policies affecting women in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, Norway, France and Sweden. The central theme of the book is the relationship between paid and unpaid work, something very few European governments have been prepared explicitly to address as a social issue and which has yet to enter the European Commission's agenda. Contributors discuss the literature on women and welfare in each country and outline developments in social policies relating to women and the position of women in regard to reproductive and labour market behaviour in the post-War period.
Lister, R. (1998). Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives.New York and London, New York University Press.
The competing pressures of globalization and immigration have forced people everywhere to think long and hard about what it means to be a citizen. In Citizenship, Ruth Lister argues for a new feminist notion of citizenship, one that can accommodate difference. Lister explores a range of disciplines and a burgeoning international literature on citizenship, pinpointing important theoretical issues and recasting traditional thinking about it, while exploring its political and policy implications for women in all their diversity. Themes of inclusion and exclusion (at the national and international level), rights and participation, inequality and difference are thus brought to the fore in the development of a "woman-friendly" theory of citizenship.
Lupton, D. (1994). Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in
the News Media. London and Bristol, Taylor & Francis.
Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of medicine, and contemporary social theory to examine AIDS reporting. There have been three major themes dominating coverage: the "gay-plague" dominant in the early 1980s, panic-stricken visions of the end of the world as AIDS was said to pose a threat to everyone, in the late 1980s; and a growing routinising of coverage in the 1990s. This book lays bare the sub-textual ideologies giving meaning to AIDS news reports, including anxieties about pollution and contagion, deviance, bodily control, the moral meanings of risk, the valorisation of drugs and medical science. Drawing together the work of cultural and political theorists, sociologists and historians who have written about medicine, disease and the body, as well as that of theorists in Europe and the USA who have focused their attention specificaiiy on AIDS, this book explores the wide theoretical debate about the importance of language in the social construction of illness and disease. This text offers insights into the sociocultural context in which attitudes towards people with HIV or AIDS and people's perceptions of risk from HIV infection are developed as the responses of governments to the AIDS epidemic are formulated.
Mazour, A. G. (2002). Theorizing Feminist Policy. London, New York,
Oxford University Press.
Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it intersects empirical feminist policy analysis with non-feminist policy studies to define and contribute to this new and emerging field of study. Consulting a wide sweep of empirical and theoretical work, the book first defines Feminist Comparative Policy showing how it dialogs with the adjacent non-feminist areas of Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Politics, and Public Policy Studies. It then seeks to strengthen one of the weakest links of this new area - the study of explicitly feminist government action. In the remaining chapters, the books defines feminist policy as a separate sector, with eight sub-sectors. It develops a qualitative and comparative framework for analysing the profiles and styles of feminist policy in post industrial democracies and uses the framework to examine twenty seven different cases of feminist policy formation across thirteen different countries.
Moghadam, V. M. (2003). Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change
in the Middle East. Boulder and London, Lynne Rienner Publishers.
This book presents a comparative study of women's roles in the Middle East as of 1990. The author draws together a large number of statistics and research as she discusses how and why women's status varies across the region. The book could be summed up in the following quote: "Many studies on the Middle East and commentaries by Islamists themselves tend to understate the heterogeneity of the region; they project a uniform culture and exaggerate its importance, elevating culture or religion to the status of a single explanatory variable. My alternative position is that there is an interactive relationship of economic processes, political dynamics, and cultural practices." In addition to describing the general situation throughout the region, the author presents two case studies: Iran and Afghanistan. The information in the case studies offers an illuminating and detailed discussion on these topics.
Mosley, H., J. O. Reilly, et al., Eds. (2002). Labour Markets, Gender
and Institutional Change: Essays in Honour of Gόnter Schmid. Cheltenham
and Northampton, Edward Elgar.
The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Gόnther Schmid. The multidisciplinary contributions, which cover a variety of theoretical approaches, are all concerned with transitional labour markets and labour market policy in the new global economic environment. The authors first address current arguments and controversies regarding appropriate institutions for the formation and implementation of labour market and employment policies. They move on to focus on the policies and problems associated with enhancing gender equality in terms of labour market integration and transitions. Finally, they examine new institutional arrangements that they believe will both enhance the performance of transitional labour markets and improve the management of social risks. Combining a theoretical approach with empirical research and a strong policy emphasis, the scope and diversity of this book will ensure a broad audience amongst economists, political scientists and academics in the fields of labour market theory and policy.
O'Connor, J. A., Orloff, A.S., Shaver, S. , , et al., Eds. (1999).
States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy
in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States, New York
and London, Cambridge University Press.
Three leading figures in the field make this important contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in an era of economic restructuring and market liberalism. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, the book analyzes three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. It explores the question of whether liberal states should intervene in workplaces or families to guarantee the rights and welfare of all individuals within them. The experiences of Canada, the UK, United States and Australia are the focus of the book.
Parrenas, R. S. (2001). Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration
and Domestic Work. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Servants of Globalization is a poignant and often troubling study of migrant Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking work of the global economy in countries throughout the world. It specifically focuses on the emergence of parallel lives among such workers in the cities of Rome and Los Angeles, two main destinations for Filipina migration. The book is largely based on interviews with domestic workers, but the book also powerfully portrays the larger economic picture as domestic workers from developing countries increasingly come to perform the menial labor of the global economy. This is often done at great cost to the relations with their own split-apart families. The experiences of migrant Filipina domestic workers are also shown to entail a feeling of exclusion from their host society, a downward mobility from their professional jobs in the Philippines, and an encounter with both solidarity and competition from other migrant workers in their communities. The author applies a new theoretical lens to the study of migration-the level of the subject, moving away from the two dominant theoretical models in migration literature, the macro and the intermediate. At the same time, she analyzes the three spatial terrains of the various institutions that migrant Filipina domestic workers inhabit--the local, the transnational, and the global. She draws upon the literature of international migration, sociology of the family, women's work, and cultural studies to illustrate the reconfiguration of the family community and social identity in migration and globalization. The book shows how globalization not only propels the migration of Filipina domestic workers but also results in the formation of parallel realities among them in cities with greatly different contexts of reception.
Peterson, J. and M. Lewis, Eds. (2001). The Elgar Companion to Feminist
Economics. Cheltenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Peterson and Lewis are joined by 86 other scholars of economics, politics, and feminist thought, to introduce readers to key concepts in feminist economics, feminist critiques, and reconstructions of major economic theories. Ninety-nine entries include brief economic histories of dozens of regions and countries, as well as the coverage of topics of more general subjects. Each entry includes cross-references and a thorough bibliography.
Ramly, E. E. (2000). Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change
in Egypt. Cairo, The American University of Cairo Press.
The major environmental problems facing Egypt are overpopulation, pollution, depletion of resources, and the inability to bring population growth down to a rate that can be sustained by available natural resources. In effect, Egypt is currently undergoing tremendous environmental stress which seriously threatens the quality of the country's scarce natural resources. This is attributed to a magnitude of factors, including: high population density concentrated in the narrow Nile valley, absolute reliance on the Nile for water supply, expansion of industry, change in people's consumption habits owing to higher standards of living among certain sections of the population, the continuing rise in the number of vehicles on the streets and their use of leaded gasoline, use and abuse of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, and loose governmental control over the dumping of hazardous waste materials. Almost all pollutants detected in Egypt's water and airs exceed international standards.
Rees, T. (1998). Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union. London
and New York, Routledge.
The EU has recently launched a framework for policy development in education, training and the labor market. While equal opportunity is identified as important in the model framework, Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union argues that the gendered nature of these fields is not incorporated into the analysis upon which the policies are based. This book traces and critiques the record of the EU on equal opportunities from equal treatment, then positive action, through to the current agenda--mainstreaming equality. The author combines insights from feminist theory on conceptualizing equality, familiarity with Eurospeak and original research on the programs and projects of the Commission to offer an accessible, jargon-free account of the EU's attempts to encourage equal opportunities.
Rossilli, M., Ed. , Ed. (2000). Gender Policies in the European
Union (Studies in European Union (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 1) London
and New York, Peter Lang Publishing
An interdisciplinary group of European feminist scholars critically explores the European gender policies from the founding of the European Community to the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam. They offer different interpretations of the contradiction between the exceptional development of gender equality policy within Community social policy and actual gender inequality. Analysis of the EU policies on the equality of women reveals their central role in the making of the common market and the Community's modernizing action to reform employment patterns and welfare systems. >From different, and at times contrasting, feminist perspectives, the contributors propose new policies to challenge the current situation and overcome the EU juridical defect in women's rights, which exacerbates the European "citizenship deficit" and "democratic deficit."
Sainsbury, D. (2003). Gender Equality and Welfare. London and New
York, Cambridge University Press.
What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane Sainsbury answers these questions by analyzing the United States, Britain, Sweden and The Netherlands, whose welfare policies differ in significant ways. Building on feminist research, she determines the extent to which legislation reflects and perpetuates the gendered division of labor in the family and society, as well as what types of policy alter gender relations in social provision. She offers constructive proposals for securing greater equality between women and men.
Sainsbury, D. E., Ed. (2000). Gender and Welfare States Regimes. London and New York, Oxford University Press
Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in various government welfare policies and illustrates how the specific qualities of the welfare state reinforce or counteract gender inequalities. The book argues that policy variation across the countries surveyed can be attributed to a variety of factors, including differing strategies and demands of the women's movements, the organisational strength of labour movements and industrial relations frameworks, the constellation of parties supporting equality measure, traditional values and state structures.
Sargent, C. F. and C. B. Brettel, Eds. (1996). Gender and Health:
An International Perspective. New Jersey, Prentice Hall.
A growing anthropological literature addresses the articulation of gender roles and ideology with health status, the organizing of health care, and health policy. This book presents as interdisciplinary focus on these issues viewed in a cross-cultural perspective. The book will be relevant to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and to clinicians and others interested in public health policy. Most of the contributors to the book are anthropologists engaged in cross-cultural research. Others include a literary theorist, a physician, and an ethicist, all of whom are primarily concerned with medical discourse, medical research, and the delivery of health care within North America. The premise of all these authors is that women and men seeking medical care should be conceptualized as gendered persons functioning in particular socioeconomic contexts. In addition, all the authors share the assumption that analysis of the production of health, as well as the provision of health care, must consider gender, ethnicity, and class as relevant factors.
Siim, B. (2000). Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in
France, Briain and Denmark. London and New York, Cambridge University
Press
This book compares the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to reconceptualize the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. Examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark reveals new research about Scandinavian social policy.
Truebek, D. M. a. Z., Jonathan, Ed. (2003). Governing Work and Welfare
in a New Economy, European and American Experiments. Oxford, New
York, Oxford Univerity Press.
Europe and the United States confront common challenges in responding to the transformations of work and welfare in the 'new economy', and there are signs of far-reaching changes in the role of government as a direct result. This volume presents the latest research by a team of outstanding international contributors. Parts One and Two examine new approaches to the governance of work and welfare in the EU and the US respectively; and Part Three surveys emergent trends and reflects on future possibilities.
Williams, F. (1989). Social Policy: A Critical Introduction; Issues
of Race, Gender and Class Cambridge, Polity Press.
This major new introductory textbook in social policy breaks new ground in arguing for the centrality of race, gender and class in welfare theory and practice. The book describes and evaluates the major theoretical perspectives on welfare, as well as the different strands of feminism and work on racism which are relevant to social policy. The author develops a new analytical framework for the study of the welfare state which takes account of factors deriving from capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism and the international division of labour.
Williams, J. (2001). Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to do about It London and New York, Oxford University Press
In this theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly accessible treatise on gender, work and domesticity, Williams offers a new vision of "family-friendly" feminism that would support women in all the various roles on the worker-caregiver continuum. With special attention to the diversity of women's experience in terms of race and social class, this book challenges common assumptions about gender roles and women's choices concerning work, family and career. Arguing that the liberal feminist ideal of full equality in the workforce and the anti-feminist call to full-time domesticity do not represent a satisfactory range of options, Williams, who is the co-director of the Gender, Work and Family Project at the American University Law School, says that the time is ripe to acknowledge the "norm of parental care," and work to develop flexible employment policies that will mitigate the stresses of the work/family dilemma. Williams proposes a major shift in feminist strategy, focusing on the needs of diverse families, broad recognition of the value of domestic work and an expansion of the limited scheduling options available to women and men in the workplace. Of interest to feminists, working women and caregivers as well as policy makers, this groundbreaking study presents an important new perspective on this evolving discourse. From Publishers Weekly Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Wilton, T. (1997). Engendering Aids; Deconstructing Sex, Text, and Epidemic. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Sage Publications.
In an original and stimulating analysis of gender and AIDS, Tamsin Wilton assesses safer sex health promotion and health education discourse and considers their unintended consequences for the cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Taking a queer/feminist constructionist position, she links issues of power, gender, sexuality, and nationalism in an attempt to offer a sound theoretical foundation for an effective and radical HIV/AIDS health promotion strategy. EnGendering AIDS draws on safer sex materials from the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Scandinavia and sets current practice against the historical context of VD/STD education, dissecting the role played by STDs in the cultural construction of gender. Wilton debates the meanings that erotic minorities read into bodies and desires, and how these have been transformed by AIDS, and suggests a new model of pornography that disengages the sexually explicit and/or erotically arousing from gendered power relations. EnGendering AIDS suggests a radically innovative approach to the development of effective safer sex promotional strategies based on new thinking in health promotion and on the insights of both radical feminism and queer theory. This book will be of interest to professionals in health promotion and health education, and also to students and academics in womens studies, gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, sexuality, cultural studies, media studies, social policy, and medical sociology.
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Πολιτικής: Θεωρητικές Αναφορές και Εμπειρικές Διερευνήσεις. Αθήνα,
Gutenberg.
Στόχος των μελετών που περιλαμβάνονται στον παρόντα συλλογικό τόμο είναι η διερεύνηση βασικών ζητημάτων οικογενειακής πολιτικής, και η σύνδεσή τους με τις σύγχρονες θεωρητικές αναφορές και τις τρέχουσες πρακτικές στην Ελλάδα. Το εμπειρικό υλικό της μελέτης συγκεντρώθηκε στο πλαίσιο του διακρατικού ερευνητικού προγράμματος IPROSEC ( Improving Policy Responses and outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges) με αντικείμενο την αλληλεπίδραση των πολιτικών για την οικογένεια με τις μεταβαλλόμενες ανάγκες των σύγχρονων οικογενειών στις νέες κοινωνικές και οικονομικές συνθήκες. Από τα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα του προγράμματος επελέγησαν εννέα, που συνδέονται με τη χάραξη και την εφαρμογή της οικογενειακής πολιτικής - αυτής της εν πολλοίς άρρητης ελληνικής οικογενειακής πολιτικής. Οι συγγραφείς των αντίστοιχων κεφαλαίων χρησιμοποίησαν κατά βούληση το εμπειρικό υλικό, όχι απλώς καταθέτοντας τις προσωπικές τους "αναγνώσεις", αλλά και εντάσσοντας το στα συμπεράσματα των δικών τους ερευνών.
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