Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global - Volume I

List of contents

Preface: Gender Justice and Development 1. Introduction: Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global 2. Empowerment, Citizenship and Gender Justice: A Contribution to Locally Grounded Theories of Change in Women’s Lives 3. Unlocking Pathways to Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality: The Good, The Bad, and the Sticky 4. Empowering Children, Disempowering Women 5. Implications of Customary Practices on Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership in Cameroon 6. Gender Justice and Rights in Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities and Pitfalls 7. Integrating Peace, Justice and Development in a Relational Approach to Peacebuilding 8. Partiality Based on Relational Responsibilities: Another Approach to Global Ethics

About the author

Christine M. Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality; editor of Moral Issues in Global Perspective; and co-editor of Contemporary Moral Issues and Care Ethics: New Theories and Applications.

Cynthia Bisman is Professor of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. She has focused her scholarship on the moral core of social work. Her latest book is Social Work: Value Guided Practice for a Global Society (2014).

Summary

The authors in this collection discuss a range of gender injustices and explore ways to address these by using new theoretical insights and conceptual analyses. The result is a rich examination of gender justice, as it manifests itself both in development processes and in local and global contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Social Welfare.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Bisman Koggel, Christine M. Bisman Koggel
• Assisted by: Cynthia Bisman (Editor), Bisman Cynthia (Editor), Christine Koggel (Editor), Christine M. Koggel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138060395
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06039-5
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social welfare & social services, Feminism & feminist theory, Social welfare and social services, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Development Studies