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Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities : Global-Transnational and Local Contexts.
Title:
Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities : Global-Transnational and Local Contexts.
Author:
Segal, Marcia Texler.
ISBN:
9780857247445
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Series:
Advances in Gender Research, 15 ; v.15

Advances in Gender Research, 15
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- ANALYZING GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND MULTIPLE INEQUALITIES: GLOBAL, TRANSNATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS -- ANALYZING GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND INEQUALITY IN GLOBAL, TRANSNATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- USING INTERSECTIONALITY TO UNDERSTAND GLOBALIZATION MORE FULLY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- PART I: FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS -- GLOBALIZATION AND MULTIPLE INEQUALITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALIZATION -- WHICH INEQUALITIES? -- SYSTEMS OF GENDER RELATIONS -- CHANGES IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN A GLOBAL ERA -- ''GLOBAL'' ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES: WHICH UNIT - COUNTRY OR WORLD? -- INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE -- WHICH UNIT TO MEASURE ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: HOUSEHOLD OR INDIVIDUAL? -- THEORIZING THE INTERSECTION OF MULTIPLE INEQUALITIES -- THEORIZING INTERSECTIONALITY USING COMPLEXITY THEORY -- VARIETIES OF MODERNITY -- NEOLIBERALISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- CONCLUSIONS: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES AND CONTESTED MODERNITIES -- REFERENCES -- STRATEGIES OF FEMINIST RESEARCH IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD -- GENDER FEMINISM AND WOMAN'S FEMINISM -- DOING RESEARCH IN A COMPLEX, GLOBAL WORLD -- REVOLUTIONARY POSSIBILITIES OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESEARCH -- A NEW FEMINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MASCULINITY RESEARCH AND GLOBAL SOCIETY -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: RETHINKING STUDIES OF MASCULINITY -- PART II: METHOD AND EXAMPLES - CORPORATE MASCULINITIES IN A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: GENDER IN GLOBAL-LOCAL CONNECTIONS -- A THEORETICAL VIEW OF THE GLOBALIZING SEX INDUSTRY: WORLD SYSTEM POSITION, LOCAL PATRIARCHY, AND STATE POLICY IN SOUTH KOREA -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALIZATION AND SEX INDUSTRY IN SOUTH KOREA -- THEORETICAL FRAME -- THE SOUTH KOREAN SEX INDUSTRY: TWO CASES -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES.

REFERENCES -- GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALITY: THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON INTERSECTIONALITY, MIGRATION, AND WORK IN CHINA -- GLOBALIZATION, GENDER, AND ECONOMIC CRISIS -- NOTE ON METHODOLOGY -- THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS IS LOCAL: RETURNED MIGRANT WORKERS IN RURAL CHINA -- MIGRANT WORKERS WHO RETURNED TO THE CITIES -- IMPACTS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS -- TOWARD GENDER-SENSITIVE POLICY AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GENDER, DIVISION OF LABOR, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN SMALL-SCALE RESTAURANTS IN CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S SERVICE INDUSTRY AND WOMEN'S LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION -- METHOD AND SAMPLE -- SMALL-SCALE RESTAURANTS IN MODERN CHINESE CITIES: THE GENDERED DIVISION OF LABOR -- EMPLOYER CONTROL, AUTHORITY AND PATRIARCHY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF LABOR -- THE INTERSECTION OF CLASS, GENDER, AND AGE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CLASS MOBILITY -- PROLETARIANIZATION, GENDERED SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND LABOR SOLIDARITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- GENDER AND LABOR WITHIN THE TURKISH CONTEXT OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT, GENDER, AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE -- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION -- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AS A HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART III: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION -- CONSTRUCTING GENDER ACROSS BORDERS: A TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH -- USING A TRANSNATIONAL OPTIC -- THE SITES AND SOURCES OF GENDER FOR MIGRANT WOMEN -- TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND GENDER -- SITES OF GENDER NEGOTIATION: SOCIAL REMITTANCES AND GLOBAL VALUES PACKAGES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION AMONG AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: CHANGE-AGENTS LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY.

KEY ISSUES IN STUDIES OF MIGRATION, GENDER, AND INTERSECTIONALITY: MAKING SENSE OF AFRICAN WOMEN'S LIVES -- METHODOLOGY AND SITES FOR THIS RESEARCH -- AFRICAN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND CIVIC LEADERS - WHO ARE THEY? -- TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES: ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING TIES AT ''HOME'' AND ABROAD -- BUILDING AFRICAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO THE COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL SUPPORT WITHIN GERMAN-UKRAINIAN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- EMPIRICAL FIELD -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: WAR AND PEACE-BUILDING -- SOCIAL SECURITY AND AGED WIDOWS IN CONFLICT SITUATIONS: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN NORTHWEST INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- METHODS -- CONDITION OF WIDOWS IN INDIA -- CONFLICT SITUATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN NORTHWEST INDIA -- ENCOUNTERS DURING CONFLICTS: WOMEN'S NARRATIVES -- SOCIAL LIFE IN DEVIPUR MIGRANT CAMP AFTER THE KARGIL WAR (1999) -- FACTORS AFFECTING WIDOWED WOMEN'S STATUS: THE STRUCTURE-AGENCY ARTICULATION -- CONCLUDING POINTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- DIVERSITY, ACTIVISM, AND GLOBAL CONCERNS IN THE U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDY PARTICIPANTS -- DIVERSITY AMONG ACTIVISTS -- DIVERSITY IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT -- GLOBAL CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND INITIATIVES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- WOMEN'S ABSENCE IN PEACE-BUILDING POLICIES: THE CASE OF THE FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL -- THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE-BUILDING PROCESSES -- THE CASE OF WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE BUILDING IN ISRAEL -- THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL: WHY WOMEN CREATED THEIR OWN ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

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Abstract:
Case studies, essays and interview data from across the globe from leading gender theorists provide theoretical and methodological contexts for nation- and region-specific studies. Divisions of labor, internal and transnational migration, social transformation, war and peace-building are among the specific topics addressed in this volume.
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