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Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th-21st centuries.

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights.

Provides an empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of the various changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes. This book includes case studies that range from the Philippines and Somalia to the Caribbean, and is suitable for courses on migration, diversity, gender, race, ethnicity, and law and public policy.

In the globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. This book examines the complexity of citizenship in historical and contemporary contexts. It covers various issues such as immigration, ethnicity, class, and nationality.

Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By examining how U.S. military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war.

Examines the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians. This work is of interest both to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists alike.

A key development in international migration is the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention focuses on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage earners. This book draws on a range of interests; from scholars interested in refugee studies to students in various disciplines.

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this book breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.

Traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem. This book explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity, and why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period.

For decades women's activism in the Islamic world was perceived as largely secular. Women generally relied upon secular and national discourse to advance claims to equality in the private and public spheres and at times formed transnational networks of solidarity. This work draws attention to this phenomenon.

Presents a theoretically guided empirical analysis of gender equality policies in the European Union. This book states that a theoretical framework is required which is able to explain the changing fortunes of women's activism, the changing attitudes of European institutions and the behaviour of member states in a multi-level setting.

Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of reconciliation and recovery. In considering this.

Few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored their gender impact. This book explores how women's politics is affected by and affects federalism.

Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender.

Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, these states have dramatically increased women's numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions.

Departing from James Scott's idea that oppression and resistance are in constant change, Resisting Gendered Norms provides us with a compelling account on the nexus between gender, resistance and gender-based violence in Cambodia. To illustrate how resistance is often carried out in the tension between, on the one hand.

Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies.

Drawing from feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships, and Bordered/Borderland Identities, this book features feminist scholars who methodically examine how the production of feminist knowledge has occurred in this region.

Body and State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies.

In this work, Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women.

The war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation and effects of this US-led aggression. This book examines the official war stories being told to the international community about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged.

Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity.

This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings whilst deliberating on 'islandness' as part of the intersectional analysis.

This book contributes to the understanding of current changes in the workplace, in family, in sexuality and sexual violence within the setting of the borderlands.

This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods.

Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity. The collection makes an important and timely contribution to interdisciplinary feminist theorizing of silence, voice and agency in global politics.