Situating Women

Situating Women
Author: Nicole George
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1922144150

Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these challenges. It is the first book to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country’s gender politics across four tumultuous decades. It is also the first to examine the ‘situated’ nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does this by analysing trends in activity, from women’s radical and provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying global and local factors can shape women’s understandings of gender justice and their pursuit of that goal.

Situating Sadness

Situating Sadness
Author: Janet M. Stoppard
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0814798004

'Situating Sadness' sheds light on the influence of sociocultural factors, such as economic distress, child-bearing or child-care difficulties, or feelings of powerlessness which may play a significant role, and points to the importance of centext for understanding women's depression.

Situating the Self

Situating the Self
Author: Seyla Benhabib
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000158500

This book is an attempt to defend the tradition of universalism in the face of a triple-pronged critique by engaging with the claims of feminism, communitarianism, and postmodernism and by learning from them. It situates reason and the moral self more decisively in contexts of gender and community.

Situating Feminism

Situating Feminism
Author: Sondra Farganis
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1994-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803946503

Providing a broad base of essential knowledge critical to undergraduate students, Situating Feminism will also inspire new directions in critical thought and theoretical advancement for academics and professionals in the areas of women's and culture studies, political science, social work, communication, sociology, and psychology.

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature
Author: Jodie Medd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316453561

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

A Companion to Feminist Geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography
Author: Lise Nelson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1405137363

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth anddiversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape ofgeographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feministgeography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and thenation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in thefield. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctivecontribution.

Between the Flag and the Banner

Between the Flag and the Banner
Author: Yael Yishai
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438424639

Because Israel has endured perennial armed conflict, its national agenda places overriding importance on national security and family life. At the same time, Israel is a democracy that fosters equality for all its citizens. Thus Israeli women are caught in a dilemma: whether to show allegiance to the national cause or to raise the banner of feminism and focus on women's rights. This book presents a broad perspective on the political life of Israeli women, both Jewish and non-Jewish. It is the first book to explore Israeli women's political participation, political identity, and political organizations, as well as public policy toward women. Situating Israel in a comparative theoretical framework, Yael Yishai focuses on the enduring tension between women's drive for power and their desire to belong and integrate from within.

Situating Fertility

Situating Fertility
Author: Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521470445

This collection addresses the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, and political forces that affect reproductive behavior. For their part, anthropologists have only recently begun to apply their characteristic approaches to the study of reproduction. Drawing on new ethnographic and historical research and on a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors to this book indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions.

Secrets of Women

Secrets of Women
Author: Katharine Park
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.

The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security

The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security
Author: Sara E. Davies
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 921
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190638273

Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in peace and security processes, and support for women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and rebuilding of societies after conflict. Implementation within and across states and international organizations - and within peace and security operations - has been slow despite significant transnational advocacy in support of the WPS agenda. The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security brings together scholars, advocates, and policymakers to provide an overview of what we know concerning what works to promote women's participation in peace and security, what works to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and what works to prevent conflict drawing on women's experiences and knowledge of building peace from local to global levels. Just as importantly, it addresses the gaps in knowledge on and the future direction of scholarship on WPS. The handbook particularly aims to build on the findings from the 2015 Global Study of Resolution 1325, commissioned by the UN-Secretary General. Over the course of six sections, the handbook addresses the concepts and early history behind WPS; the theory and practice of WPS; international institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of WPS in conflict prevention, peace operations, peace building, arms control, human-rights protection, and protection of civilians; connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas; and the ongoing and future challenges of WPS.