Search results for ""Author Linda Lindsey""
Taylor & Francis Ltd Women of Asia
Book SynopsisWith thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity is a comprehensive anthology that contributes significantly to understanding globalization's transformative process and the resulting detrimental and beneficial consequences for women in the four major geographic regions of AsiaEast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eurasia/Central Asiaas it gives voice to women and provides innovative ways through which salient understudied issues pertaining to Asian women's situation are brought to the forefront.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I: Introduction and Overviews of Women in Asia; Chapter 1: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity: A Thematic Perspective on Women of Asia; Chapter 2: Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Agenda in Asia; Chapter 3: Gendering Aid and Development Policy: Official Understanding of Gender Issues in Foreign Aid Programs in Asia; Part II: East Asia; Chapter 4: Globalization and Gender Equity in China; Chapter 5: China’s "State Feminism" in Context: The All-China Women’s Federation From Inception to Current Challenges; Chapter 6: Gender Equality and the Limits of Law in Securing Social Change in Hong Kong; Chapter 7: Women’s Experiences of Balancing Work and Family in South Korea: Continuity and Change; Chapter 8: Gender Equality in the Japanese Workplace: What Has Changed Since 1985?; Chapter 9: Addressing Women’s Health through Economic Opportunity: Lessons from Women Engaged in Sex Work in Mongolia; Part III: Southeast Asia; Chapter 10: Women, Globalization, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia; Chapter 11: Adapting Human Rights: Gender-Based Violence and Law in Indonesia; Chapter 12: Experiences of Financial Vulnerability and Empowerment among Women who were Trafficked in the Philippines; Chapter 13: Women as Natural Caregivers? Migration, Healthcare Workers, and Eldercare in Singapore; Chapter 14: Elected Women Politicians in Singapore’s Parliament: An Analysis of Socio-Demographic Profile; Chapter 15: Globalization and Increased Informalization of Labor: Women in the Informal Economy in Malaysia; Chapter 16: Women Politicians in Cambodia: Resisting and Negotiating Power in a Newly "Implemented" Democracy; Chapter 17: Freedom to Choose? Marriage and Professional Work among Urban Middle-Class Women in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Chapter 18: Entrepreneurial Women in Lao PDR; Chapter 19: Persisting Inequality, Rural Transformation, and Gender Relations in the Northeast of Thailand; Chapter 20: Challenging Gender Inequalities through Education and Activism: Exploring the Work of Women's Organizations in Myanmar's Transition; Part IV: South Asia; Chapter 21: Young Women’s Situation and Patriarchal Bargains: The Story of a Son-Less Family in Rural Bangladesh; Chapter 22: Livelihoods, Households, and Womanhood in Nepal; Chapter 23: Negotiating Gendered Violence in the Public Spaces of Indian Cities: Globalization and Urbanization in Contemporary India; Chapter 24: The Promises and Pitfalls of Microfinance in Pakistani Women’s Lives; Chapter 25: Afghan Women: The Politics of Empowerment in the Post-2001 Era; Part V: Eurasia and Central Asia; Chapter 26: Women in Azerbaijan: Decades of Change and Challenges; Chapter 27: Female Religious Leaders in Uzbekistan: Recalibrating Desires and Effecting Social Change; Chapter 28: Project Kelin: Marriage, Women, and Re-Traditionalization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Chapter 29: "Women Move the Cradle with One Hand and with the Other, the World!" Methodological Reflections on "The Woman Question" in Tajikistan; Chapter 30: Tradition, Islam, and the State: International Organizations and the Prevention of Violence against Women in Tajikistan; Chapter 31: Rural Women’s Encounters with Economic Development in Kyrgyzstan; Chapter 32: Women as Change Agents: Gender in Post-Soviet Central Asia; Notes on Contributors
£58.89
Rlpg/Galleys Preventing Ethnic Conflict
Book SynopsisThis renamed and revised paperback edition of Irwin Deutscher''s Accommodating Diversity shares most of the book''s original content but reframes the work with teachers and students in mind. Part social policy analysis and part intellectual autobiography, Preventing Ethnic Conflict mines the world''s most troubling incidences of racial and ethnic conflict in order to find national policies that defuse the strains of cohabitation and encourage true reconciliation. Debunking the notion that conflict is inevitable when dominant and minority communities cohabit, Deutscher looks at five successful policies, from Swedish legislation dealing with immigrant education to the Chieftaincy act in Ghana, as he examines the possibilities for successful and harmonious intergroup relations. Deutscher concludes that the pursuit of a benign pluralist policy leads ultimately to assimilation, providing a political solution, which satisfies the champions of both diversity and unity. With introductory essays to each section written by Linda Lindsey that place the material within sociological theory, its problem solving focus, and provocative study questions, Preventing Ethnic Conflict is an ideal supplement for courses in race, ethnicity, and social problems.Trade ReviewThis book critically examines salient issues pertaining to ethnic conflict in the global context. Preventing Ethnic Conflictrepresents a significant contribution that will be useful for both students and for policymakers as well. -- Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, University of KansasIn what seems to be a world of conflict with severely limited acceptable resolutions, this delightfully readable and important text is a breathe of fresh air. It clearly demonstrates that positive outcomes are possible. -- Sandra Christie, Webster UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Problem Chapter 3 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part One Chapter 4 The Beginning: Abe Lincoln in India and a Pair of Hungarians in Ottawa Chapter 5 Democracy and Its Downside Chapter 6 The Invention of Race and Ethnicity and Its Many Consequences Chapter 7 Identities: Ethnic and Otherwise Chapter 8 Ethnic Renewal: Italian Americans, Bosnian Muslims, and Native Americans Chapter 9 Reports for the Daily Press: a Worldwide Network of Research Assistants Part 10 Toward Solutions: From Time to Time and Place to Place Chapter 11 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part Two Chapter 12 Backdrop and Precursors Chapter 13 The Enclave Solution in Switzerland and Ghana Chapter 14 The Immigrant Solution in Sweden, Canada, and Australia Chapter 15 Sojourner Finns, Israelis, and Greeks and Also the Unfashionable Solution of Partition (India, No! Czechoslovakia, Yes!) Chapter 16 Leave Vengeance to the Lord: One Tough but Grand Solution Part 17 Over the Horizon Chapter 18 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part Three Chapter 19 Beyond National Policies Chapter 20 Assimilation and Pluralism: An Outmoded Distinction? Chapter 21 The End: Values, Politics, and Assimilation
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