Bøger i Routledge International Studies of Women and Place serien

Describes the very different lives of women in developed and developing countries from childhood to old age, analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course.

Discussing both historical developments and contemporary events Women Divided offers topical and important new perspectives on issues of gender and sectarianism in Northern Ireland.

Gender, Planning and Human Rights explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development.

"Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.

International development policy is responsible for much of the destruction of Central and Latin American rainforests. This explores how indigenous women are at last turning their voices to action, demanding grassroots strategies as the solution.

This work examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arise from this kind of movement.

Investigates the impact of relocation on gender and family relations among transnational professionals.

This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally, highlighting case studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Jacobs also compares agrarian and land reforms organized along collective lines as well as those organizing along individual household lines.

This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the Asia-Pacific region.

This volume, a feminist inquiry into the landscape, provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place and landscape interpretations.

This book explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the Amazon to activist groups fighting racism in New York and bridges the gap between rural and urban movements.

The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center.

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of 'the nation'.