Myra Marx Ferree

Lisa Wade

Ideas, Interactions, Institutions

Gender

Judith Lorber

Beth B. Hess

This comprehensive handbook summarizes the state of gender studies, by examining the crucial research of the past decade and by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. The book is an important step towards constructing a new analytical framework approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries. The contributors illustrate how the use of gender by scholars in various and overlapping fields of study has helped alter concepts and research designs

Revisioning Gender

Aili Mari Tripp

Christina Ewig

"A powerful argument... successfully challenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to address security." - Sylvia Walby, author of New Agendas for Women

Critical Feminist Perspectives

Gender, Violence, and Human Security

Feminismus und Geschlechterpolitik in Deutschland unterscheiden sich deutlich von ihren Pendants in den USA und in Großbritannien: Während dort Forderungen dominieren, die am liberalen Individualismus und am Ideal gleicher Rechte orientiert sind, stehen in Deutschland soziale Gerechtigkeit und staatliche Verantwortung im Vordergrund. Diese aus einer sozialdemokratischen Tradition herrührenden Aspekte sind hierzulande zudem häufig mit konservativchristlichen Elementen verbunden, die patriarchalische Autorität und den Wert der Familie betonen. Myra Marx Ferree zeichnet in ihrem neuen Buch ein Panorama der modernen Frauenbewegungen in Deutschland, den USA und im globalen Kontext. Sie führt anschaulich vor Augen, dass historisch gewachsene politische Rahmenbedingungen bis heute eine große Rolle für die unterschiedliche Entwicklung der Geschlechterpolitik in Deutschland und den USA spielen. Damit wirft sie die Frage auf, was heute – in Europa und darüber hinaus – überhaupt »feministisch« ist.

Die deutsche Frauenbewegung in globaler Perspektive

Feminismen

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

An instant best-seller and now the leading book for the course, Wade and Ferree's Gender is a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to sociological perspectives on gender. Drawing on memorable examples mined from history, pop culture, and current events, Gender deftly moves between theoretical concepts and applications to everyday life. New discussions of #metoo, toxic masculinity, and gender politics in the Trump era help students participate in today's conversation about gender. The new gold standard for sociology of gender courses.

Since the UN's World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, feminists around the world have campaigned with increasing success for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. This book explores the social and political developments that have energised this movement.

Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights

Global Feminism

Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world. Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

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