Gender and Migration - 2: Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries - Identities and Networks

This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy.

List of contents

I: Nationalisms, Racisms, Ethnicisms.- 'Housewives of the Public' The Cultural Signification of the Sri Lankan Nation.- The Militarizing of Civil Society: Creation of the Mujahid (Warrior) and the 'Good Woman' in Pakistani Society.- The Long Shadows of the Past. The New Europe at a Crossroad.- A Monocultural Nation in a Multi-Cultural Society? British Continuities and Discontinuities in the Racialised and Gendered Nation.- II: Space, Cultures and Identities in Process.- Gender, Dress and Nation - The Modernization Discourse in Turkey.- The Performative Vernacular: An Approach to City and Gender.- Displaying the Other. Tribal Museums and the Politics of Culture in India.- Analytic Boarderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City.- III: Transnational Gender Democracy: Difference and Equality.- Feminist and Migrant Networking in a Globalising World Migration, Gender and Globalisation.- International Women's Networks, Social Justice and Cross-Border Democracy.- Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML): A Women's Movement in the Islamic/Muslim World between Struggles, Strength, Challenges and Empowerment.- Support, Lobbying and Networking in the Context of Trafficking in Women.- Overcoming the Culture of Impunity for Wartime Sexual Violence - The Historical Significance of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal 2000.- The Authors and editors.

About the author

Dr. Helma Lutz, habilitierte Soziologin und Pädagogin, Oberrätin am Fachbereich für Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ist Gastprofessorin für internationale Frauen- und Genderforschung an der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim.

Dr. Helma Lutz, habilitierte Soziologin und Pädagogin, Oberrätin am Fachbereich für Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, ist Gastprofessorin für internationale Frauen- und Genderforschung an der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim.

Summary

This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy. 

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Kalender, Helma Lutz, Mirjana Morokvasic, Schöning, Helen Schwenken
• Assisted by: Ilse Lenz (Editor), Helm Lutz (Editor), Helma Lutz (Editor), Mirjana Morokvasic (Editor), Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller (Editor), M. Morokvasic-Müller (Editor), Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller (Editor), M Morokvasic-Müller et al (Editor), Claudia Schöning-Kalender (Editor), Helen Schwenken (Editor)
• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783810034946
• ISBN: 978-3-8100-3494-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 516 g
• Illustrations: 256 p. 1 illus.
• Sets: Gender and Migration; Gender and Migration
• Series: Schriften der Internationalen Frauenuniversität 'Technik und Kultur'; Schriften der Internationalen Frauenuniversität 'Technik und Kultur'; Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Migration, C, Sociology, Globalization, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, transnational, Social Sciences, auseinandersetzen, Citizenship, Sociology, general, Comparative Politics, Comparative government