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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction: gender questions in the human security framework/Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringa and Amrita Chhachhi. I. Human security, gender and the body: 1. Gendering transitional justice: experiences of women in Sri Lanka and Timor Leste in seeking affirmation and rights/Sunila Abeysekera. 2. Reproductive rights and gender justice in the neo-conservative shadow/Gita Sen. 3. Gender power dynamics in Jamaica's Ghetto trap: Southside/Imani M. Tafari-Ama. 4. The new regulation of prostitution in the Netherlands/Joyce Outshoorn. II. Human security, work and care: 5. Combating trafficking in women and children: a gender and human rights framework/Noeleen Heyzer. 6. The politics and culture of care: some issues in the Netherlands/Carla Risseeuw. 7. The globalisation of domestic care services/Rachel Kurian. 8. From state duty to women's virtue: care under liberalisation in Vietnam/Thanh-Dam Truong. III. Human security: prospects for feminist engagements: 9. Globalisation, social movements and feminism: coming together at the World Social Forum/Virginia Vargas. 10. Measuring women's empowerment: developing a global tool/Saskia Wieringa. 11. Eroding citizenship: gender, labour and liberalisation in India/Amrita Chhachhi. 12. The plasticity of gender in social policy formation/Patricia Mohammed. 13. Engendering science and interdisciplinary environmental research for environmental security: the case of the Nariva swamp/Rhoda Reddock. "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." (jacket).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. A clean and unmarked copy in very good condition. 268 pages.

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