This book presents a variety of feminist perspectives on human security under globalisation. Looking at gender as a multifaceted power domain, and human security as a policy framework, it explores the configuration of the state, power/knowledge systems and the implications for people living with deprivation and social exclusion. It offers new forms of analysis to expose the gendered character of global transformation and the explicit and implicit threats to human security in different places. The contributors explore the gendered implications of transnational processes such as conflict, international migration, human trafficking, the changing boundaries of work and care, environmental degradation, neo-conservatism and body politics. They challenge conventional approaches to politics and economics and suggest alternative ways of framing strategies and policies.
Creator
Truong, Thanh-Dam > (ed.)
Chhachhi, Amrita > (ed.)
Wieringa, Saskia > (ed.)
Abeysekera, Sunila
Sen, Gita
Tafari-Ama, Imani M.
Outshoorn, Joyce
Heyzer, Noeleen
Risseeuw, Carla
Kurian, Rachel
Vargas, Virginia
Reddock, Rhoda
Women's empowerment in Japan
Creator
Wieringa, Saskia
Women's empowerment in Japan
Paper presented at the First Global Forum on Human Development, sponsored by the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 29-31 July 1999. The author discusses the Gender Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) and summarizes some points of critique on the way they are constructed. She presents the Gender Equality Index (GEI) and analyzes gender (in)equality in Japan.
Creator
Wieringa, Saskia
Workshop on GDI/GEM indicators, The Hague, 13-18 January 1997
Creator
Wieringa, Saskia > (ed.)
Workshop on GDI/GEM indicators, The Hague, 13-18 January 1997