Category: Gender Studies

This e-book highlights the main serious facets of variety and their implications for company Social accountability (CSR), analyzing them in a suite of conceptual and useful contributions from researchers and practitioners alike. particularly the publication discusses solid and most sensible practices for range administration and analyzes attainable hyperlinks among CSR and variety inside firms. Examples are drawn from a various diversity of organizational settings together with companies, academic associations and different (non-profit) companies and in quite a few nations, together with Germany, the united kingdom, the us and India. 

Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and accountability in occasions of Political Crisis addresses the neoliberalization of the collage, what this suggests in actual phrases, and strategic pedagogical responses to educating inside of this context throughout disciplines and area.

Inspired by way of bell hooks’ "transgressive college" and Donna Haraway’s "responsibility", this assortment promotes a politics of care in the lecture room via new different types of organizational practices. It engages with the demanding situations and chances of educating scholars approximately girls and gender by means of interpreting the a number of pedagogical, theoretical, and political dimensions of feminist studying.

The publication revisits how we will be able to reconfigure a feminist politics of accountability that's in a position to reply to or have interaction with modern crises. It additionally conceptualizes predicament and explains the way it is reworking modern societies and affecting person vulnerabilities and institutional buildings. eventually, it bargains useful circumstances from diverse eu destinations, during which predicament and accountability have served to reformulate modern feminist pedagogies, changing curriculums, reframing associations, and affecting the method of training and studying.

This quantity assesses essentially the most vital advancements in modern Latin American women's pursuits: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised girls have performed a critical position within the persisted fight for democracy within the zone and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and inside of them the popularity of women's rights, has provided girls a strategic virtue in pursuing their ambitions of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters examine particular our bodies of rights: rights and illustration, household violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, criminal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the nation and autonomy.

Praktische Hilfe, Enkelbetreuung und Pflege in der Familie wurden traditionell von Frauen erbracht – aber helfen Frauen ihren erwachsenen Kindern und pflegebedürftigen Eltern heute noch häufiger und zeitintensiver als Männer? Tina Schmid untersucht für vierzehn europäische Länder auf der Grundlage des „Survey of future health, ageing and Retriement in Europe" folgende Fragen: Gibt es Geschlechterunterschiede in der Verbreitung, Intensität oder paintings der geleisteten Unterstützung zwischen erwachsenen Familiengenerationen? Wie beeinflussen individuelle und familiale Faktoren diese Geschlechterunterschiede? Welche Rollen spielen kulturelle Normen und wohlfahrtsstaatliche Institutionen? Die Autorin präsentiert sowohl wertvolle vergleichende Befunde als auch substanzielle Einsichten in die Besonderheiten der jeweiligen (Wohlfahrts-)Staaten.

Mit der Einführung von Gender Mainstreaming boomt in Deutschland ein professioneller ‚Gender-Markt’ mit ‚Gender-Trainings’. Die empirische Studie präsentiert die in Deutschland erste Typisierung des sich neu konstituierenden Marktsegments genderorientierter Weiterbildung. Aus diskursanalytischer Perspektive wird die „Reise durch die öffentliche Kultur“ des Konzepts ‚Gender’ an der Schnittstelle von Markt und sozialer Bewegung nachgezeichnet. Die Dissertation nutzt poststrukturalistische Erkenntnisse für die examine konkreter Beratungspraxis. Sie leistet einen Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung um Professionalisierung und Kompetenz und bietet ein Analyseinstrumentarium für eine zukunftsfähige Gleichstellungspolitik.

Großbritannien, Frankreich und Schweden im Vergleich

Mit einem Geleitwort von Max Welch Guerra

Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the 1st book-length examine of the Hollywood boxing movie, a favored motion picture leisure because the Thirties, that incorporates such classics as Million greenback Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands along the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a personality that formed America's rules of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing movie to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the impact of ring champions, fairly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports.

Knockout breaks new floor in movie style examine by means of concentrating on the elemental dramatic conflicts uniting either documentary and fictional motion pictures with compelling social matters. The boxing movie portrays greater than the increase and fall of a champion; it exposes the physique with a purpose to demonstrate the spirit. no longer easily a brute, the display boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations vital to an American audience's event. This booklet gains chapters at the conventions of the boxing movie, the heritage of the style and its courting to recognized ring champions, and self-contained remedies of thirty-two person motion pictures together with a bankruptcy dedicated to Raging Bull.

Gender is now well-known as a primary organizing precept for monetary in addition to social existence, and comparable learn has grown at an extraordinary velocity within the contemporary a long time throughout branches of economics. the amount takes inventory of this learn, proposes novel analytical frameworks and descriptions additional examine instructions. It grew out of the summer season tuition of foreign learn in Pontignano (University of Siena) that characteristically brings jointly the main consultant students within the selected field.

The thirteen essays incorporated within the quantity disguise fresh advances in gender comparable matters throughout disciplinary branches, from fiscal historical past and the heritage of financial idea to Macroeconomics, family Economics, the Economics of Care paintings, Labour Economics, Institutional and Experimental Economics.

The quantity is essentially addressed to graduate scholars in Economics and is a vital better half for researchers within the region of Gender Economics. As so much essays are written in a non-technical language it's also of curiosity to a much broader viewers, together with experts in Sociology, Demography and History.

This ebook explores the employment of jap girls born within the Sixties and Seventies who skilled childbirth and raised childrens within the Nineteen Nineties and the early 2000s. in this interval, the japanese financial system skilled a critical recession. It has affected the firm-specific inner labour industry and on employment practices, which in flip are suggestion to have tremendously inspired eastern women’s employment. nevertheless, the fertility fee declined and social guidelines to help women’s employment started to be carried out after the Nineties. This publication explores how those labour marketplace constitution and social regulations have interaction to impact jap women’s employment. The e-book first analyses the employment styles of ladies born among the Twenties and Nineteen Seventies and examines how they've got different between diverse delivery cohorts. Then, the employment behaviour of girls sooner than and after childbirth during the post-child-rearing interval, in addition to the operating occupation of unmarried moms are explored for ladies born within the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies. in response to the information analyses, the concluding a part of this publication discusses how the labour industry constitution and social rules through the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s interactively stimulated employment behaviour of jap ladies, and a few feedback are recommend for altering women’s employment in the course of the child-rearing years.

Historically, the contributions of girls architects to their occupation were minimized or missed. 'Designing Women' explores the strain that has existed among the architectural career and its ladies contributors. It demonstrates the impact that those girls have had on structure in Canada, and hyperlinks their so-called marginalization to the profession's restrictive and infrequently discriminatory practices.

Co-written by way of an architectural historian and a sociologist, this e-book presents a welcome combination of disciplinary methods. The manufactured from a lot unique examine, it appears at matters which are particular to structure in Canada and even as attribute of many male-dominated workplaces.

Annmarie Adams and Peta Tancred study the problem of gender and its relation to the bigger dynamics of prestige and tool. They argue that many ladies architects have reacted with ingenuity to the problems they've got confronted, making significant suggestions in perform and layout. Branching out right into a wide variety of different fields, those girls have prolonged and constructed what are thought of to be the middle specializations inside of structure. because the authors indicate, whereas the occupation designs women's position inside it, girls layout constructions and careers that go beyond that slim expert definition.