Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

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11. Female Sex Trafficking in Asia

    The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World

    By Vidyamali Samarasinghe

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Trafficking of women and girls for purposes of sexual exploitation across the globe is widely acknowledged as a leading criminal activity. Women of poor countries are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking. This book identifies the patterns, causes and consequences of female sex trafficking in...

    Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
12. Gender and Landscape

    Renegotiating the moral landscape

    Edited by Josephine Carubia, Lorraine Dowler, Bonj Szczygiel

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into a long-ignored area of study: the landscape. Although there has been an exhaustive investigation into issues of gender as they intersect with space and place, very little has been written about the gendering of the landscape. This volume provides a...

    Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
13. Gender, Planning and Human Rights

    Edited by Tovi Fenster

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. A wealth of case studies examine the significance of these...

    Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge
14. Women Divided

    Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland

    By Rosemary Sales

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Published July 2nd 1997 by Routledge
15. Who Will Mind the Baby?

    Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers

    Edited by Kim England

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Child care policy, provision and funding has in no way kept up with this change. Who Will Mind the Baby? explores how working...

    Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge
16. Feminist Political Ecology

    Global Issues and Local Experience

    Edited by Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Esther Wangari

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City.Women are often at the centre of these struggles, struggles which concern...

    Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
17. Women of the European Union

    The Politics of Work and Daily Life

    Edited by Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon, Janice Monk

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States.The authors also analyze how women's work and daily lives are shaped by local...

    Published August 7th 1996 by Routledge
18. Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development

    Edited by Marianne H Marchand, Jane L. Parpart

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development.Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this...

    Published August 2nd 1995 by Routledge
19. Gender, Work and Space

    By Susan Hanson, Geraldine Pratt

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Gender, Work and Space explores how social boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different places. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in different parts of the city, the...

    Published March 22nd 1995 by Routledge
20. Women's Voices from the Rainforest

    By Janet Gabriel Townsend

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.International development policy and its...

    Published January 4th 1995 by Routledge