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Second-Wave Neoliberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Second-Wave Neoliberalism

"Analyzes the politics of neoliberal health sector reform and its effects in Peru. Focuses on the intersecting dynamics of race, class, and gender in the developing world"--Provided by publisher.

Gender, Violence, and Human Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Gender, Violence, and Human Security

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-15
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studie...

Gender, Violence, and Human Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Gender, Violence, and Human Security

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-15
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"A powerful argument... successfully challenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to address security." - Sylvia Walby, author of New Agendas for Women

Handbook on Gender and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

Handbook on Gender and Health

This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 849

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements

Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social M...

Gender Violence in Peace and War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Gender Violence in Peace and War

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of state violence against women t...

The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet at the same time feminism has never had such an extensive presence, whether in international norms and institutions, or online in blogs and social networking campaigns. This book argues that the women’s movement is not over; but rather social movement theory has led us to look in the wrong places. This book offers both methodological and theoretical innovations in the study of social movements, and analyses how the trajectories of protest activity and institution-building fit together. The rich empirical study, together with focused research on discursive activism, blogging, popular culture and advocacy networks, provides an ex...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1009

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all its varied forms, investigates a wide range of topics in the field from both a theoretical and methodological perspective, and covers the most recent developments in the area. It brings together research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging the gap in particular between political sociology and social movement studies; contributions also draw on crucial work in psychology, economics, anthropology, and geography. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume is divided into nine parts that explore political participation across disciplines; core theoretical perspectives; methodological approaches; modes of participation; contexts; determinants; processes; outcomes; and current trends and future directions. The book will be a valuable reference work for anyone interested in understanding political participation and related themes.

Local Politics and Social Policy in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Local Politics and Social Policy in China

Shows how local actors shape social policy in China through distinct priorities and different approaches to governing.

Graciela
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Graciela

"Graciela: One Woman's Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s. The book traces her early years as a young child living in an epicenter of violence to her contemporary life as a postwar survivor. Graciela Orihuela Rocha's history embodies the horrors, injustices, promises, and challenges faced by countless individuals who endured and survived the war. Her story provides intimate insights into deep-seated divisions within Peruvian society that center around ski...