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• Title:Gender and race matter : global perspectives on being a woman / edited by Shaminder Takhar (School of Law and Social Services, London South Bank University, London, UK).
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Takhar, Shaminder, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ1206 .G46 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women--Social conditions.
  Women's rights.
  Sex discrimination against women.
  
• Medical Subjects: Gender Identity
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xxv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Advances in gender research ; v. 21.
  
• Summary:"The drive for gender equality is not a recent phenomenon with the UN cited as occupying a central role for legislative change globally. Gender inequality persists in most countries and although it appears that we have a long way to go, this collection contributes to a feminist scholarship that highlights a destabilising of established patterns of behaviour and gender relations. It acknowledges the multiplicity of discrimination but locates women at the centre of a dialogue and presents key interventions in gender and race matters. For the contributors, gender serves as an analytical framework and covers the experiences of women in different global settings related to education, political activism, corporeal violence, identity, sexuality, and poverty. The use of poetry and literature provides a powerful voice for women against exclusion and recognises their contribution to society. This collection is innovative in not only relating experiential evidence but also putting forward how women are able to challenge oppression through circumventing rules, roles, obligations and prejudice through a powerful agency."--Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781786350381 hardcover
  1786350386 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I WOMEN'S RIGHTS, ACTIVISM, EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT
  A Century of Egyptian Women's Demands: the Four Waves of the Egyptian Feminist Movement / Hala Kamal
  The Women's Movement And Neo-Liberalism In Iran: Between Accommodation And Resistance / Tara Povey
  Bangladeshi Female Students In Higher Education: `Agentic Autonomy' At The Race/Gender Trajectory / Shaminder Takhar
  Women's Education And Employment In Iran / Elaheh Rostami-Povey
  pt. II SEXUALITY AND GENDER SECURITY: INDIA AND AFRICA
  Gender And Caste Intersectionality In India: An Analysis Of The Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 16 2012 / Bev Orion
  Negotiating Gender Security: The Transnationalisation Of Local Activist Discourses In Post-Conflict Burundi And Liberia / Maria Martin de Almagro
  Gender Security/Sexuality In South Africa: `I Am HIV-Positive. How Could You Do This To Me?' / Bev Orton
  pt. III WOMEN'S BODIES, NATION AND PERFORMANCE
  Agency, Resistance And Subversion: Voices In The Field / Jaya Gajparia
  Re-Mapping Women's Testimonies Into Networked Subjectivities: The Quipu Project / Suzanne Scafe
  The Body Contours Of Carnival: Mas-Playing And Race In Trinidad / Kavyta Raghunandan
  Gender In Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories Of Gender And (Postcolonial) Nationalism In Hindi Cinema / Priyasha Kaul
  pt. IV HAVING A VOICE: LITERATURE AND POETRY
  Migration, African Writing And The Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment / Carole Boyce Davies
  Suha / Jocelyn Watson
  Woman With Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit) / Dorothea Smartt.