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the case of women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politieke partijen, rechterlijke instanties, wetgeving, sociale bewegingen, Verenigde Staten, Latijns-Amerika, West-Europa, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- The essays in this book constitute a comparative move toward defining new and unified theoretical orientations to studying representation among women. The book begins with a theoretical positioning of the meaning of women's interests, issues and preferences. It then looks at descriptive representation in political parties, high courts, and legislatures, as well as how definitions of ‘interest’ affect who represents women in legislatures and social movements. Chapters include cases from the United States, Latin America, Western Europe and Africa. Contents: 1. Dilemmas in the meaning and measurement of representation / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson: 2. Plotting the path from one to the other / Karen Beckwith: 3. Intersectional representation or representing intersectionality? / Ange-Marie Hancock: 4. Representing women / Drude Dahlerup: 5. The effect of preferential voting on women’s representation / Richard E. Matland, and Emelie Lilliefeldt: 6. Gender, high courts, and ideas about representation in Western Europe / Valerie Hoekstra, Miki Caul Kittilson, and Elizabeth Andrews Bond: 7. Political inclusion and representation of afrodescendant women in Latin America / Mala Htun: 8. How civil society represents women / Alice J. Kang: 9. Unpacking women’s issues / Michele L. Swers: 10. Representing women’s interests and intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity in US State Legislatures / Beth Rein Gold, and Kerry L. Haynie: 11. Representing women / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson: 12. Does presence produce representation of interests? / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Afshar, Haleh > (ed.)
- Creator
- Barrientos, Stephanie > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Tarfa, Sintiki
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- WER 1L 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, economie, recht, politieke participatie, islam, feminisme, industrialisatie, milieu, voedselproductie, arbeidsmarkt, gezondheid, voorlichting, rurale ontwikkeling, ontwikkelingslanden, Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- Beschrijving van de gevolgen van globalisering op het leven van vrouwen in de derde wereld. Bevat: Introduction: women, globalization and fragmentation / door Haleh Afshar en Stephanie Barrientos: Fractioned states and negotiated boundaries: gender and law in India / door Shirin M. Rai: Right-wing mobilization of women in India: Hindutva's willing performers / door Jahnavi Phalkey: The impact of global and the reconstruction of local islamic ideology, and an assessment of its role in shaping feminist politics in post-revolutionary Iran / door Haleh Afshar: The informal sector and the conservative consensus: a case of fragmentation in Egypt / door Noha El-Mikawy: Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities / door Sylvia Chant: Women, industrialization and the environment in Indonesia / door Ines Smyth: Gender and the global food chain: a comparative study of Chile and the UK / door Stephanie Barrientos en Diane Perrons: Women's work in changing labour markets: the case of Thailand in the 1980s / door Rachel Kurian: Health education for women as a liberatory process?: an example from Tajikistan / door Colette Harris: Why rural technologies fail to meet the needs of Nigerian women: evidence from Hausa women's groups in Kano state / door Sintiki Tarfa.
a manual for interventions in the world of migrant prostitution
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Signorelli, Assunta > [ed]
- Creator
- Treppete, Mariangele > [ed]
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B1555 - B
- Thesaurus
- prostitutie, vrouwenhandel, recht, Oost-Europa, Nigeria, Latijns-Amerika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book presents a prostitution-project, in which women help younger women.which are often minors and mainly come from Albania, former Yugoslavia and other Eastern European countries, Nigeria and Latin American countries.The texts were all written by women involved in this projecect.
leveling the playing field
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kochhar, Kalpana > (ed.)
- Creator
- Jain-Chandra, Sonali > (ed.)
- Creator
- Newiak, Monique > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, gelijke beloning, armoede, empowerment, Oost-Azië, Europa, Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika, Latijns-Amerika, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- This book analayzes interconnections between gender inequality and the macroeconomy. The existence of gender inequality can impede economic growth. Several chapters analyze the macroeconomic consequences of gender gaps in the labor force participation and entrepreneurship. As illustration, a number of country studies are highlighted. Finally, the role of policies and their impact on women's labor participation are discussed. With a foreword by Christine Lagarde, managing director of International Monetary Fund.
women and health : revealing the hidden health burden of women workers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Claro, Amparo > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Tajer, Débora
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- WER 39 1997 - C
- Thesaurus
- gezondheid, vrouwenarbeid, stress, ziekten, seksuele intimidatie, gezondheidszorg, landbouw, industrie, seksindustrie, vrouwenhandel, congressen, Latijns-Amerika, India, Zimbabwe, Japan, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Artikelen over de risico's voor de gezondheid bij het werken in de 'maquila' (assemblage-industrie), landbouw, verpleging, mijnbouw en seksindustrie in Latijns Amerika. Tevens wordt de situatie beschreven in India, Zimbabwe en Japan. Ook is terug- en vooruitgekeken naar congressen die over dit onderwerp zijn/worden gehouden in Beijing (1995), Barcelona (1996), Buenos Aires (1997) en Brazilië (1999).
from polar winds to tropical breezes
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Punnett, Betty Jane > (ed.)
- Creator
- Duffy, Jo Ann > [ed]
- Creator
- Fox, Suzy > [ed]
- Creator
- Gregory, Ann > [ed]
- Creator
- Lituchy, Terry R. > [ed]
- Creator
- Monserrat, Silvia Ines > [ed]
- Creator
- Olivas-Lujan, Miguel R. > [ed]
- Creator
- Santos, Neusa Maria Bastos F. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Wood, Donald
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- beroepen, managers, loopbanen, hoogleraren, advocaten, ministers, statistiek, bundel, Verenigde Staten, Canada, Latijns-Amerika
- Description
- This book relates the story of successful women across the Americas: women who are managers, business owners, university professors and administrators, doctors, lawyers and government ministers. .Based on extensive research, including more than 1,100 surveys and 300 interviews of women from Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, St Vincent and the Grenadines and the USA, the book explains what these women have in common and how they differ. The workplace challenges and barriers to professional success faced by women are also analyzed. Seeking to capture the voices of the women themselves, the authors – also from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures across the Americas – attempt to explain success in the face of personal, social, organizational, cultural and economic obstacles facing women everywhere.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Chong, Natividad Gutierrez
- Contributor
- Blackwell, Maylei
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- LAT 1A 2007
- Thesaurus
- nationalisme, etniciteit, vrouwenlichamen, mythen, kunsten, multicultureel, inheemse volkeren, statistiek, Latijns-Amerika, bundel
- Description
- The relationship between gender and nationalism is a compelling issue that is receiving increasing coverage in literature. With case studies covering Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, this book explores these links in the context of Latin America. The work opens by outlining four dimensions in the relationship between gender and nationalism. These are: the contribution of women to nation building and their exclusion from it by the state and its institutions: the role of women in contemporary ethnic and nationalist movements: the place of the female body in the myths and traditions surrounding the nation: and the role of women in forging the intellectual and artistic culture of the nation. It then provides explorations of these themes, with chapters covering the debate on multiculturalism and gender in the construction of the nation, the struggles of ethnic women to participate politically in their communities and studies of the first Mexican filmmaker, Mimi Derrba and the indigenous heroine Dolores Cacuango from Ecuador.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- LAT 6 2018 - B
- Description
- This publication argues that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic challenges and political crises facing Latin American countries and that these challenges matter for the number of women and men elected to office, what they do once there, how much power they gain access to, and how their presence and actions influence democracy and society more broadly. The book analyzes the institutional and contextual causes and consequences of women's representation in Latin America. It does this with chapters that analyze gender and political representation regionwide in each of five different ‘arenas of representation’: the presidency, cabinets, national legislatures, political parties, and subnational governments. Besides it provides chapters that analyze gender and representation in each of seven different countries: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
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