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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- True, Jacqui
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, huiselijk geweld, armoede, mannelijkheid, globalisering, economie, oorlog en vrede, bank- en verzekeringswezen, milieu
- Description
- This book develops a feminist political economy approach to identify the linkages between different forms of violence against women and macro structural processes in strategic local and global sites - from the household to the transnational level.It seeks to account for the globally increasing scale and brutality of violence against women. These sites include economic restructuring and men's reaction to the loss of secure employment, the abusive exploitation associated with the transnational migration of women workers, the growth of a sex trade around the creation of free trade zones, the spike in violence against women in financial liberalization and crises, the scourge of sexual violence in armed conflict and post-crisis peacebuilding or reconstruction efforts and the deleterious gendered impacts of natural disasters. Examples are drawn from South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, the Pacific Islands, Argentina, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Iceland.
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- Creator
- Confortini, Catia Cecilia
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenvredesbewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, oorlog en vrede, WILPF, geweld, dekolonisatie
- Description
- The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is one of the oldest peace organizations in the West. Founded in 1915, when a group of women from neutral nations in World War I met at The Hague to formulate proposals for ending the war, WILPF sent delegations of women to several countries to plead for peace, and their final resolutions are often credited with influencing Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points. Today, the organization counts several thousand members in 36 countries, on five continents. Beginning in 1945, WILPF began identifying the limitations of its ideological foundations in relation to the international liberal order. Confortini argues that this period ushered in a turn in the organization's policies and activism, one that culminated in the mid-70s and served as an important antecedent to feminist activism that continues today. In this book she traces the organization's changing strategies and ideas over a thirty-year period, focusing on three key areas of its work-disarmament, decolonization, and the conflict in Israel/Palestine.
the European Union, transnational advocacy, and combating violence against women
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Montoya, Celeste
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 1P 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- beleid, internationaal, preventie, geweld, mensenrechten, sociale bewegingen, EU, statistiek
- Description
- Focusing on the case of the European Union and its efforts to establish women's human rights, this study provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis of the transnational processes that connect global, regional, and grassroots advocacy efforts. This book first traces the processes by which violence against women became a European Union issue, examining the role played by global movements and organizations as well as European advocates within and outside of EU institutions. Second, it explores and analyzes the strategies of norm diffusion, coercive pressure, and capacity building utilized by the EU to influence its member and candidate states to change practices. Third, it evaluates the impact that these strategies have at the local level by investigating the interaction of international and regional efforts with domestic characteristics.
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