Gender Politics

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 betw..

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 betw..

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. Using this conference..

This book offers fresh analysis on the incidences of sexual violence against men using both new and existing data, and pays close attention to some of the controversial debates in the context of sexual violence against men, re-visiting and asking new questions about the vexed issue of masculinities ..

How do sexual politics impact International Relations? This volume treats LGBTQIA approaches to International Relations as innovative in politics and theory-building. It offers comparative case-studies from regional, cultural and theoretical peripheries to identify new ways of practicing IR while ex..

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations into the nation’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and on ..

The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence Policy considers what explains the emergence of women’s rights friendly domestic violence policy reforms in some countries in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region and their absence in others...

Orthodox views of globalization assume that it has the same features and impact everywhere, regardless of context. This challenging and unique book scrutinizes the dynamics of each context on its own merits, including the agency of women and men, resulting in unexpected and groundbreaking insights i..

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding sexual violence in war, and its impact focussing in particular on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  It situates Bosnian war-rape in relation to subsequent conflicts; outlines how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political psycholo..

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding sexual violence in war, and its impact focussing in particular on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  It situates Bosnian war-rape in relation to subsequent conflicts; outlines how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political psycholo..

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Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in Central East Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in th..