In "Women and the Politics of Place", Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar analyze women's economic and social justice movements by challenging traditional views. The authors reveal how an interrelated set of transformations around the body, environment, and the economy factors into place-based practices of women and how these provide alternative ...
Are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves? This book presents an analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the globe. It reflects on the type of cyberculture women are creating including the borders, exclusions and silences they encounter. It explores women's access to the Internet ...
This collection of essays seeks to provide an understanding of gender relations in sustainable development. Researchers, activists and policy-makers from the North and South offer new ways to challenge dominating knowledge-systems and development institutions, and discuss the difficulties women face on the margins of the development process. ...
Over the past half-century, capitalist economics has deviated from its original ethical and social purpose. Recently, capitalism has mutated into an amoral quest for economic growth at any cost. A relentless pursuit of profits and the "bottom line" poses a constant threat to civil society and the natural environment. The sustainability, indeed ...
An intervention into the study of gender, power and reproduction around the world, this book explores issues of health, empowerment, sexuality and reproductive rights, issues fundamental to the ongoing international development debate on population and gender. Studying societies emerged in deep change due to the impact of modernity on economic, ...
This collection of essays seeks to provide an understanding of gender relations in sustainable development. Researchers, activists and policy-makers from the North and South offer new ways to challenge dominating knowledge-systems and development institutions, and discuss the difficulties women face on the margins of the development process. ...
Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engagingly written book reveals how once tabooed issues such as rape, gender based violence, sexual and reproductive rights have emerged fully fledged into the public arena as critical ...
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