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The drive for gender equality is not a recent phenomenon with the UN cited as occupying a central role for legislative change globally. Gender inequality persists in most countries and although it appears that we have a long way to go, this collection contributes to a feminist scholarship that highlights a destabilising of established patterns of behaviour and gender relations. It acknowledges the multiplicity of discrimination but locates women at the centre of a dialogue and presents key interventions in gender and race matters. For the contributors, gender serves as an analytical framework and covers the experiences of women in different global settings related to education, political activism, corporeal violence, identity, sexuality, and poverty. The use of poetry and literature provides a powerful voice for women against exclusion and recognises their contribution to society. This collection is innovative in not only relating experiential evidence but also putting forward how women are able to challenge oppression through circumventing rules, roles, obligations and prejudice through a powerful agency.
Price: $187.99
Pages: 296
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series: Advances in Gender Research
Publication Date:
31 August 2016
ISBN: 9781786350381
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies: women & girls
Social scientists in a wide range of disciplines contribute to feminist scholarship that highlights a destabilizing of established patterns of behavior and gender relations. They cover women's rights, activism, education, and empowerment; sexuality and gender security: India and Africa; women's bodies, nation, and performance; and having a voice: literature and poetry. Among specific topics are the women's movement and neo-liberalism in Iran: between accommodation and resistance; negotiating gender security: the trans-nationalization of local activist discourses in post-conflict Burundi and Liberia, re-mapping women's testimonies into networked subjectivities: the Quipu project, the body contours of Carnival: mas-playing and race in Trinidad, and 'Women With Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit).'
Edited by Shaminder Takhar, School of Law and Social Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK
PART I: WOMEN’S RIGHTS, ACTIVISM, EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT
A Century of Egyptian Women’s Demands: The Four Waves of the Egyptian Feminist Movement - Hala Kamal
The Women’s Movement and Neo-Liberalism in Iran: Between Accommodation and Resistance - Tara Povey
Bangladeshi Female Students in Higher Education: ‘Agentic Autonomy’ at the Race/Gender Trajectory - Shaminder Takhar
Women’s Education and Employment in Iran - Elaheh Rostami-Povey
PART II: SEXUALITY AND GENDER SECURITY: INDIA AND AFRICA
Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: an Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 41259 - Adrija Dey and Bev Orton
Negotiating Gender Security: The Transnationalisation of Local Activist Discourses in Post-Conflict Burundi and Liberia - Maria Martin De Almagro
Gender Security/Sexuality in South Africa: ‘I Am HIV-Positive. How Could You Do This to Me?’ - Bev Orton
PART III: WOMEN’S BODIES, NATION AND PERFORMANCE
Agency, Resistance and Subversion: Voices in the Field - Jaya Gajparia
Re-Mapping Women’s Testimonies into Networked Subjectivities: the Quipu Project - Donatella Maraschin and Suzanne Scafe
The Body Contours of Carnival: Mas-Playing and Race in Trinidad - Kavyta Raghunandan
Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema - Priyasha Kaul
PART IV: HAVING A VOICE: LITERATURE AND POETRY
Migration, African Writing and the Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment - Carole Boyce Davies
SUHA - Jocelyn Watson
Woman with Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit) - Dorothea Smartt