Gender and the local-global nexus theory, research, and action /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2006.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research ; v. 10.
• Θέματα: Sex role.; Sex discrimination.; Globalization > Social aspects.; Gender studies, gender groups.; Social Science > Gender Studies.

The nine papers in this volume have a world in which the local/global connection is salient as background. Examining gender and its implications for feminist action within this setting, they fall into three overlapping categories. The first, theory, involves the theoretical consideration of gender a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: gender and the local-global nexus - theory, research, and action / Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
• Thinking of gender in a holistic sense: understandings of gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia / Sharyn Graham Davies
• Variations in masculinity from a cross-cultural perspective / Edwin S. Segal
• Is there a need to (un)gender the past? / Denise Pahl Schaan
• Young people's attitudes to gender issues: Asian perspectives / Chilla Bulbeck
• A comparative analysis of sex role ideology in Canada, Mexico and the United States / Richard J. Harris, Juanita M. Firestone, Paul J. Bryan
• The "free university of women:" reflections on the conditions for a feminist politics of knowledge / Paola Melchiori
• Spy or feminist: "grrrila" research on the margin / Elizabeth L. Sweet
• Marketing social change after communism: the case of domestic violence in Slovakia / Magdalena Vanya
• life history as narrative subversion: older Mexican women resist authority, assert identity, and claim power / Tracy B. Citeroni.