Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

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21. Women and the Israeli Occupation

    The Politics of Change

    By Tamar Mayer

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at a monumental juncture in their histories. Both have a chance to claim a new future but more than a quarter of a century of occupation has had significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological and moral ramifications for Israeli...

    Published November 9th 1994 by Routledge
22. Servicing the Middle Classes

    Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain

    By Nicky Gregson, Michelle Lowe

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new...

    Published August 3rd 1994 by Routledge
23. Different Places, Different Voices

    Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Vivian Kinnaird, Janet Momsen

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed by the voices of female geographers from the...

    Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
24. Full Circles

    Geographies of Women over the Life Course

    Edited by Cindi Katz, Janice Monk

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to...

    Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
25. Viva

    Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.

    By Sarah A. Radcliffe, Dr Sallie Westwood, Sallie Westwood

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    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'....

    Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge