Engendering human security : feminist perspectives / edited by Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringa, Amrita Chhachhi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trương, Thanh-Đạm.

Wieringa, Saskia, 1950-

Chhachhi, Amrita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Women's rights.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xxx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, [2006]

Summary:

This book engages with current debates on human security, offering a variety of feminist perspectives on the gender reconfigurations of the state, power/knowledge systems, sexuality, care, labour and the implications of globalisation for people's quotidian security. A key thematic area concerns the intersection between gender-as a domain of power-and human security as a new policy framework. The contributions in this book present an integration of a feminist materialist analysis of gender relations with a feminist post-modern approach to gender representation and cultural construction. A combination of the two approaches links culture with politics and economics, and integrates analysis of class, ethnicity and other dimensions of gender identity.

Contents:

Gender questions in the human security framework / Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringa, and Amrita Chhachhi

Gendering transitional justice : experiences of women in Sri Lanka and Timor Leste in seeking affirmation and rights / Sunila Abeysekera

Reproductive rights and gender justice in the neo-conservative shadow / Gita Sen

Gender power dynamics in Jamaica's ghetto trap : Southside / Imani M. Tafari-Ama

The new regulation of prostitution in the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn

Combating trafficking in women and children : a gender and human rights framework / Noeleen Heyzer

The politics and culture of care : some issues in the Netherlands / Carla Risseeuw

The globalisation of domestic care services / Rachel Kurian

From state duty to women's virtue : care under liberalisation in Vietnam / Thanh-Dam Truong

Globalisation, social movements, and feminism : coming together at the World Social Forum / Virginia Vargas

Measuring women's empowerment : developing a global tool / Saskia Wieringa

Eroding citizenship : gender, labour, and liberalisation in India / Amrita Chhachhi

The plasticity of gender in social policy formation / Pat Mohammed

Engendering science and interdisciplinary environmental research for environmental security : the case of the Nariva Swamp / Rhoda Reddock.

Notes:

"Engendering human security was first published in India in 2006 by Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali for Women)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1842777793

9781842777794

1842777785

9781842777787

OCLC:

76835984

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