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social dynamics in operation
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2002
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- 1
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- Lahiri, Debabrata
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- Mitra, Santanu
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- empowerment, emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen
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- In a game theoretic framework it can be argued that a gender sensitive institution is an offshoot of certain social conditions, which in most cases need to be acted upon by some anti-establishment catalytic agent. In a society characterized by gender exploitation, catalytic agent can only come exogenously. For a sub-society it is easier to come across such an exogenous catalytic agent. The specific community conditions prevailing in such a sub-society may also prove to be congenial for a catalytic agent to act upon, or even to emerge from. In a larger canvas, however, as the exogenous force transforms into mere endogenous entity, and the society takes on the general character of male-dominance, the space for exogenous agency shrinks. There are, however, three possible escape routes from this closure. Firstly, external effects of women's empowerment in one subsociety on another may snowball. Secondly, the awareness campaign presently underway on a global scale is itself a potent exogenous catalytic agent. Thirdly, general development programs undertaken within a patriarchal order may unwittingly create conditions conducive to feminist struggle.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2014
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- 2
- Creator
- Liu, Dongxiau
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- wereldvrouwenconferenties, emancipatie, gelijke behandeling, vrouwenbewegingen, VN, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1995, 20e eeuw
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- 'Between 1975 and 1995, a total of four world conferences on women took place under the sponsorship of the United Nations. These mega events were accorded a prominent place in the International/global women’s movement. This paper argues that we need to make a distinction between these two kinds of global organizing for gender equality. The former were sponsored by an international bureaucracy whereas the latter was started by women activists. Clarifying the difference helps to recognize the unique challenges posed by the world conferences for activists of the international/global women’s movement in the following aspects: dealing with logistical challenges, setting global priorities, coordinating international lobbying, and pushing for national implementation. Drawing on personal accounts, organizational records and United Nations documents, the paper explores how women activists adapted to the challengesand what lessons they offered for transnational activism in general.'
disabled women's standpoint
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2002
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- 1
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- Barile, Maria
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- gehandicapten, geweld, vrouwenbewegingen, organisaties
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- This article presents an insider reflection on questions of violence and women with disabilities. We explore reasons for the systemic omission of women with disabilities from mainstream research and from services addressing non-disabled women's experiences. Several questions are postulated. Has segregation of women with disabilities from the mainstream rendered a large part of their experiences, including the experience of violence, invisible? Have misconceptions about the lives of women with disabilities contributed to exclusionary practices within the women's movement? This article further submits that violence against women with disabilities assumes many forms, both individual and systemic. It explores several factors, among these how exclusion of disabled women from mainstream services, coupled with the lack of appropriate funding for their organisations, and the poverty lived by individual women with disabilities: renders more difficult the task of these organisations to respond to member needs. The inaction that allows the cycle of poverty and violence to continue in the individual and collective lives of women with disabilities furthers institutional, system-based violence.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2012
- Magazine Number
- 5
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- Sika, Nadine
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- Olimat, Muhamad S.
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- Karolak, Magdalena
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- [et al.]
New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies—Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2020 Feminist Studies Association’s (FSA) Annual Student Essay Competition [Special Issue]
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Rowell, Carli > (ed.)
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- emancipatie, LHBT, televisie, literatuur, wetgeving, politiek, seksueel geweld, vrouwenbewegingen, mannelijkheid, Verenigde Staten, India, essays
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- In this special issue FSA provides a platform to showcasing the work and fresh novel thinking of emerging feminist scholars with the articles: - Unending and uncertain: thinking through a phenomenological consideration of self-harm towards a feminist understanding of embodied agency / Veronica Heney - Postfeminist Hegemony in a Precarious World: Lessons in Neoliberal Survival from RuPaul’s Drag Race / Phoebe Chetwynd - Liminal Space and Minority Communities in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936) / Amy Finlay-Jeffrey - The Communal Violence Bill: Women’s Bodies as Repositories of Communal Honour / Zara Ismail - A Critique of Anti-Carceral Feminism / Amy Masson - The Pussyhat Project: Texturing the Struggle for Feminist Solidarity / Katja May - Masculine Failure and Male Violence in Noah Hawley’s Fargo / J. T. Weisser
major victories or failures for human rights?
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2015
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- 3
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- Alvi, Hayat
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- vrouwenbewegingen, mensenrechten, revoluties, Arabische wereld, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, paper
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- 'With the 2011 “Arab Spring”, the issue of women’s empowerment has emerged as a parallel movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). What are the implications of the women’s empowerment movements in the MENA for improved political representation and rights? Do these developments contribute to long-term socio-political, legal, judicial, and economic reforms that would improve overall human rights, and especially women’s rights in the MENA? This paper is a comparative survey of women’s empowerment and rights, especially in terms of general human rights principles, as well as in terms of political representation in post-revolution Tunisia and Egypt. The level of analysis is Amartya Sen’s theories of “development as freedom”. Applying Sen’s freedom-based development theories, focusing on women’s agency in attaining rights and freedoms for the broader goal of human rights and socioeconomic development accounts for the uniqueness of this study.'
Feminism Interacted
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2007
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- 1
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- Mohammadi, Majid
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- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, mensenrechten, sociale bewegingen, democratie, Iran, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Kachalmi, Kobra M.
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- Yok Fee, Lee
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- vrouwenbewegingen, media, vrouwbeelden, Iran
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- Iranian TV tries to legitimize and reinforce sexism and male domination with oppressive gender representation. The study investigates how critical analysis of media is necessary for Iranian women from the viewpoints of Iranian feminist activists.
the pleasures and dangers of march, progress and protest in creating social justice from the First Wave to the present
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Denney, Coleen J.
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- feminisme, acties, lichaamstaal, lichamelijkheid, historisch, suffragettes, vrouwenbewegingen, internationaal, onderzoek
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- 'This study examines the link between the visual protests of first-wave activists and those of second- and third-wave advocates, in order to establish a dialogue about the presumed transgressions of women’s bodily presence and feminists’ use of body language.'
Emergence of Women’s Organizations and the Resistance Movement in Pakistan : a Historical Overview
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 6
- Creator
- Imran, Rahat
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- Munir, Imran
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- vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, historisch, Pakistan, 1970-1979, 1980-1989
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- Using secondary sources, this paper presents a comprehensive historical overview of the feminist and oppositional developments that began to take shape during Zia’s dictatorship, and have steadily grown to make their mark in contemporary Pakistani society as organs for socio-political change and women’s rights.