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Book Gender Justice  Citizenship and Development

Download or read book Gender Justice Citizenship and Development written by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls' and women's ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it. In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on.

Book Gender Justice  Citizenship   Development

Download or read book Gender Justice Citizenship Development written by and published by IDRC. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes kapitelvis.

Book Gender Justice  Development  and Rights

Download or read book Gender Justice Development and Rights written by Maxine Molyneux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines contemporary issues such as neoliberal policies, democracy and multiculturalism, analyzing them from a gender perspective. It examines how liberal rights and ideas of democracy and justice have been absorbed into the political agendas of women's movements.

Book Gender Justice and Development  Local and Global

Download or read book Gender Justice and Development Local and Global written by Christine Koggel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now generally accepted by development theorists and policy-makers that the popular policies of reducing or eliminating social welfare programs over the past several decades have increased inequalities and injustices throughout the world. The authors in this collection focus on the gendered aspects of these inequalities and injustices. They do so by exploring the ethics, values, and principles central to understanding and alleviating real-world problems resulting from a lack of gender justice locally and globally. Some of the authors offer new theoretical and conceptual frameworks in order to analyze connections between gender norms and inequalities, to devise strategies to empower women and strengthen communities, to challenge mainstream understandings of justice and responsibility, to promote caring and just relationships among people within and across borders, or to shape more adequate accounts of development and global ethics. Other authors apply new theories and concepts in order to explore gender justice in the context of issues such as climate change, land ownership rights in Cameroon, or empowerment strategies in places such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Columbia, and Indonesia. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Social Welfare.

Book Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance

Download or read book Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance written by Sarah Forti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and programme levels. If current dominant theoretical perspectives are not interrogated, the consequences could be that gender inequalities and injustices are inadequately addressed, or that opportunities are missed to impact on poverty reduction and on transformative gender changes. Through a renewed interpretation of gender equality in IDA, the book aims to show the way towards a more effective response to gender inequalities and injustices faced by women in developing countries. Drawing on 20 years of experience working with IDA policies and programming across three continents, this book makes an important contribution to the active and dynamic field of critical feminism, as well as providing practical illustrations on how such critical thinking might contribute to gender transformational changes. Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance will be important reading for scholars and upper level students working in the fields of gender equality, human rights, development assistance, foreign affairs, international law, and international relations.

Book Gender and Citizenship in Transition

Download or read book Gender and Citizenship in Transition written by Barbara Hobson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book A Question of Scale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judy Fudge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Question of Scale written by Judy Fudge and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to measure justice is a focus of both Nancy Fraser's monograph, Scales of Justice: Reimaging Political Space in a Globalizing World and Linda C. McClain and Joanna L. Grossman's edited collection, Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship. While both books explore the broad theme of justice and citizenship in a globalizing world, their approaches and levels of analysis differ. Fraser's approach is more general. It is a work of normative political theory and critical social theory. The preoccupation of her elegant analysis is the heterogeneity of justice claims, with which she also describes the incommensurability of different idioms of justice, as well as the boundaries of justice in a globalizing world. Although gender justice is not the specific focus of this book, Fraser uses the trajectory of the second-wave feminist movement in the United States as a case study to “deploy” the concepts she has developed to understand justice claims in the con- temporary conjuncture. By contrast, McClain and Grossman focus specifically on gender equality, and they utilize the concept of citizenship because it is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation, and civic membership. This book is both more specific and eclectic than Fraser's. It focuses on citizenship as the lens for evaluating whether women have achieved substantive equality and, as a whole, explores the constitutional, political, social, sexual and reproductive, and global dimensions of citizenship. The goal of my review is not to provide a comprehensive assessment of the two books. Instead, I focus on how they join issue in order to evaluate their respective contributions to the question of gender equality in a globalizing world. To this end, I briefly sketch Fraser's overall argument, highlighting several of the concepts she uses. I then concentrate on her discussion of second-wave feminism as a bridge to my discussion of McClain and Grossman's collection. I will begin my discussion of their book by focusing on the introductory chapter, which presents the overarching themes of the collection, and I will concentrate on the fifth part of the book, which is composed of the essays that deal with global citizenship.

Book Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice

Download or read book Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice written by Sanne Weber and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context. The author reveals that current, apparently gender-sensitive, transitional justice (TJ) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) laws and policies ultimately undermine rather than transform gender equality and, consequently, weaken the chances of achieving holistic and durable peace. To overcome this, Weber offers an innovative approach to TJ and DDR that places gendered citizenship as both the starting point and the continued driving force of post-conflict reconstruction.

Book Gender Justice and Development  vols 1   2

Download or read book Gender Justice and Development vols 1 2 written by Christine Koggel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender Equality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda C. McClain
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-31
  • ISBN : 1139480367
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Gender Equality written by Linda C. McClain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents - and the reality of women's lives. This volume presents a collection of original works that examine this persisting inequality through the lens of citizenship. Distinguished scholars in law, political science and women's studies investigate the many dimensions of women's equal citizenship, including constitutional citizenship, democratic citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive citizenship and global citizenship. Gender Equality takes stock of the progress toward - and remaining impediments to - securing equal citizenship for women, develops strategies for pursuing that goal and identifies new questions that will shape further inquiries.

Book Gender  Development  and Citizenship

Download or read book Gender Development and Citizenship written by Caroline Sweetman and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on citizenship means thinking about the relationships between individuals and the states in which they live. What difference does having citizenship rights mean for peoplee(tm)s lives? Are structures of governance efficient, and responsive to peoplee(tm)s needs? This collection of articles examines ways in which citizenship is denied, and argues that citizenship can be used to demand and advance human rights. Women often find themselves excluded from full citizenship by legal systems which leave men to look after the interests of their female dependants. But women need recognition as citizens in their own right, to protect them from exploitation and abuse. People from marginalized communities also often find that the state fails to respond to their needs and interests. Finally, migrants e" a growing group of women and men in our global economy e" live precariously as aliens in states which do not acknowledge their claims to basic security and services. Topics here include the tension between cultural sensitivity and universal concepts of rights; reinterpretations of citizenship in communities where the state has failed to guarantee political or economic rights; and projects that are helping to advance active citizenship by increasing peoplee(tm)s voice in decisionmaking.

Book Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities

Download or read book Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities written by Rachel Sieder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.

Book The Logics of Gender Justice

Download or read book The Logics of Gender Justice written by Mala Htun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-paid parental leave and child care follow a logic of class politics, in which the strength of Left parties and overall economic conditions are more salient. The book reveals the multiple and complex pathways to gender justice, illuminating the opportunities and obstacles to social change for policymakers, advocates, and others seeking to advance women's rights.

Book Climate Change and Gender Justice

Download or read book Climate Change and Gender Justice written by Geraldine Terry and published by Practical Action Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how gender issues are entwined with people's vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Vivid case studies show how women and men in developing countries are experiencing climate change and describe their efforts to adapt their ways of making a living to ensure survival, often against extraordinary odds.

Book Gender Justice  Development and Rights

Download or read book Gender Justice Development and Rights written by Maxine Molyneux and published by Geneva : UNRISD. This book was released on 2003 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of issues and findings from 12 theoretical and empirical studies commissioned under UNRISD research project "Gender Justice, Development and Rights" initiated in Jan. 2000.

Book Gender in Transitional Justice

Download or read book Gender in Transitional Justice written by S. Buckley-Zistel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence countries such Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Columbia, Chile and Germany.