Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Author: Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108487432

Choi examines how global Christian networks facilitated the flow of ideas, people and material culture, shaping gendered modernity in Korea.

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Author: Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108807534

Hyaeweol Choi examines the formation of modern gender relations in Korea from a transnational perspective. Diverging from a conventional understanding of 'secularization' as a defining feature of modernity, Choi argues that Protestant Christianity, introduced to Korea in the late nineteenth century, was crucial in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices and claiming new space for women in the public sphere. In Korea, Japanese colonial power - and with it, Japanese representations of modernity - was confronted with the dominant cultural and material power of Europe and the US, which was reflected in Korean attitudes. One of the key agents in conveying ideas of “Western modernity” in Korea was globally connected Christianity, especially US-led Protestant missionary organizations. By placing gender and religion at the center of the analysis, Choi shows that the development of modern gender relations was rooted in the transnational experience of Koreans and not in a simple nexus of the colonizer and the colonized.

Arab Women's Lives Retold

Arab Women's Lives Retold
Author: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815631477

Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. The collection goes well beyond dismantling standard notions of Arab female subservience, exploring the many ways Arab women writers have learned to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at large. Drawing from a rich body of literature, the essays attest to the surprisingly lively and committed roles Arab women play in varied geographic regions, at home and abroad. These recent writings assess how the interplay between individual, private, ethnic identity and the collective, public, global world of politics has impacted Arab women’s rights.

Courting Gender Justice

Courting Gender Justice
Author: Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190932856

Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR, located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most effective international human rights court in existence. Russian citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey. Based on interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers in Russia and Turkey, this engaging book grounds the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Author: Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781108766838

"In April 1932, the popular magazine Samch'æolli reported on a roundtable discussion featuring three prominent women intellectuals who had studied overseas: Ch'oe Yæongsuk (B.A. from Stockholm University), Pak Indæok (B.A. from Wesleyan College and M.A. from Columbia University), and Hwang Aesidæok (M.A. from Columbia University).1 These women were asked to share their observations on a variety of topics, such as child care facilities, opportunities for employment, birth control, marriage and divorce. The panelists frequently offered illustrative examples from Sweden and the United States, since they had studied in those countries, but they also referred to Russia, India, Britain, and France, places where they had traveled briefly"--

It's Up to the Women

It's Up to the Women
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1568585950

"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.

Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Author: Cynthia Enloe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520957288

In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events—Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns—to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today. With all new and updated chapters, Enloe describes how many women's seemingly personal strategies—in their marriages, in their housework, in their coping with ideals of beauty—are, in reality, the stuff of global politics. Enloe offers a feminist gender analysis of the global politics of both masculinities and femininities, dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system, and reveals that system to be much more fragile and open to change than we think.

Radical Moves

Radical Moves
Author: Lara Putnam
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807838136

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century. From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.

Gender Roles at Home and Abroad

Gender Roles at Home and Abroad
Author: Kaari Flagstad Baluja
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Annotation Baluja is an analyst with the US Census Bureau, where she specializes in immigrant adaptation, international migration statistics, and cross-cultural health and gender issues. Here she focuses on how the roles and relationships of Bangladeshi husbands and wives change after their migration to the growing Bangladeshi community in Queens, New York. In addition to identifying aspects of family life that have changed, she also looks at those that have remained constant despite immigration. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Afropolitan Projects

Afropolitan Projects
Author: Anima Adjepong
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469665204

Beyond simplistic binaries of "the dark continent" or "Africa Rising," Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Focusing particularly on queer sexuality, Adjepong offers unique insight into the contemporary sexual politics of the Afropolitan class. The book expands and complicates existing research by providing an in-depth transnational case study that not only addresses questions of cosmopolitanism, class, and racial identity but also considers how gender and sexuality inform the racialized identities of Africans in the United States and in Ghana. Bringing an understudied cohort of class-privileged Africans to the forefront, Adjepong offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives.