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Anthias, F. (1992). Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Migration: Greek-Cypriots
in Britain. Aldershot, Brookfield USA and Hong Kong, Avebury.
This book sets out to place Cypriot migration to Britain within the context of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within current developments in the field of racial and ethnic relations. It provides an account of the economic and social position of Cypriots in British society paying particular attention to a number of central theoretical and political debates relating to class, ethnicity, racism and gender. The book argues that migrant groups have to be understood in terms of the interaction between the internal cultural and social differentiations within the group and the wider structural, institutional and ideological processes of the country of migration. Gender divisions and the family are seen as central in understanding the forms of settlement and the economic and social placement of a migrant group.
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.
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.
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.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, P., Ed. (2003). Gender and U.S Immigration: Contemporary
Trends. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California
Press.
Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
Ilbery, B., Ed. (1998). The Geography of Rural Change. Harlow, London,
New York, Pearson / Prentice Hall.
The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. After outlining the main dimensions of rural change, the book progresses from a discussion of theoretical insights into rural restructuring to a consideration of both the extensive use of rural land and the changing nature of a rural economy and society. The text places an emphasis on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change, and these are supported by extensive case study evidence drawn from different parts of the developed world.
Kayser, B. (1968). Ανθρωπογεωγραφία της Ελλάδος: Στοιχεία για τη
Μελέτη της Αστυφιλίας. Αθήνα, Εθνικό Κέντρο Κοινωνικών Ερευνών.
Οι έρευνες, οι οποίες αναλήφθηκαν από το Κέντρο Κοινωνικών Επιστημών Αθηνών, στα πλαίσια μιας προοριζόμενης για την UNESCO μελέτης για την αστικοποίηση της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας, και οι εργασίες που γίνονταν για την κατάστρωση του "Οικονομικού και Κοινωνικού Άτλαντα της Ελλάδας", κατέστησαν γνωστά πολλά στοιχεία της ανθρωπογεωγραφίας και της οικονομικής γεωγραφίας της χώρας. Η πενιχρή επιστημονική βιβλιογραφία στον τομέα αυτό καθώς και η ανάγκη οι διάφορες απόψεις της μελέτης πάνω στην αστικοποίηση να θεμελιωθούν σε κάποια γενική ανάλυση των δομών, μας οδήγησαν στην απόφαση να συγκεντρώσουμε στο παρόν βιβλίο όσα από τα στοιχεία αυτά φαίνονταν έγκυρα και μπορούσαν να χρησιμοποιηθούν, άξια να τεθούν σε συγκεντρωτική μορφή υπ' όψη των ερευνητών, των σχεδιαστών προγραμμάτων και των ασχολούμενων με την κοινωνιοτεχνική δραστηριότητα. Επαναλαμβάνοντας τον υπότιτλο του βιβλίου θα λέγαμε ότι δεν πρόκειται για γεωγραφία, αλλά απλώς για στοιχεία γεωγραφίας και δη για στοιχεία ειδικού προσανατολισμού, δεδομένου ότι γενικά συνελέγησαν για να διαπιστωθεί η κατάσταση και οι διαδικασίες της αστικοποίησης, δηλαδή της μετακίνησης του πληθυσμού από την ύπαιθρο στις πόλεις.
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.
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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.
McClintock, A., A. Mufti, et al., Eds. (2002). Dangerous Liaisons:
Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives. Mineapolis and London,
University of Minnesota Press.
A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression. Former lovers, they now fancy themselves rather like demigods whose mutual desires have evolved beyond the crudeness of sex or emotion. They ritualistically act out their twisted affections by engaging in elaborate conspiracies to destroy the lives of their less calculating acquaintances, daring each other to ever-more-dastardly acts of manipulation and betrayal. Why? Just because they can; it's their perverted way of getting their kicks in a dead-end, pre-Revolutionary culture. Among their voluptuous and virtuous prey are fair-haired angels played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman, who have never looked more ripe for ravishing. When the Vicomte finds himself beset by bewilderingly genuine emotions for one of his victims, the Marquise considers it the ultimate betrayal and plots her heartless revenge. Dangerous Liaisons is a high-mannered revel for the actors, who also include Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, and Keanu Reeves.
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.
Rai, S. a. L., Geraldine and Eds. (1996). Women and the State (Gender,
Change and Society). London and Bristol, Taylor & Francis.
Women and the State: International Perspectives explores the historical and structural boundaries within which women act, relate to each other and deal with the state in the Third World. it is conscious of the fact that 'much Western feminist state theory has largely ignored the experience of Third World Women.' This is true both in terms of knowledge of the diverse forms of activities women undertake and in the application of theoretical constructs about gender relations and the status of women which may be of little relevance to Third World women.
Trotter, J. J. W., and Painter, Irvin Nell, Eds., Ed. (1991). The
Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race,
Class and Gender (Blacks in the Diaspora). Blacks in the Diaspora.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press
"The Great Migration of the early twenieth century represents for African-Americans both immigration and freedom. These were voluntary movements, initiated by the individual or the family, in pursuit of what they saw as their own best interests...Through their 'immigrant' experience they have profoundly altered the culture that all late twentieth-century Americans share." from the Forward, by Nell Irvin Painter
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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