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Ending the Postwar in Japan: Structure, Actors, Norms and Challenges
Edited by Hiroko Takeda, Glenn D. Hook
The 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2005 was a fundamental watershed in modern Japanese history. Inspired by this, much discourse has been produced on the ‘end’ of the postwar period itself. Yet, the question of ‘endings’ is perennial, and has occurred on numerous occasions...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-55240-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation: New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland
By Fidelma Ashe
This book genders the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland and both documents and analyzes the effects of the restructuring of its politics on gender and sexual equality....
July 2011 | 978-0-415-55816-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa
Edited by Howard Stein, Amal Fadlalla
In recent years a broader and richer idea of human security has become increasingly influential among academics and international development practitioners. The aim is to generate a human-centered construct that can incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks affecting the generalized...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59784-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Young Muslim Women in India
By Kabita Chakraborty
The reality for marginalized Muslim girls in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India is far more complex than the one that is often constructed during discussions that view the lives of Muslim girls through a lens of repression and poverty within the patriarchal Islamic community. Based on...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-56324-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China
By Minglu Chen
The last three decades in the People’s Republic of China have been characterized by decentralization, marketization and privatization. What might be expected from a developing country like China with a significant number of women in the labour force? Do the traditional values of male superiority...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-60013-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Women, Judging and the Judiciary: From Difference to Diversity
By Erika Rackley
Women, Judging and the Judiciary explores continuing debates about gender representation in the judiciary and, more specifically, the importance of judicial diversity, in order to provide a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging. There has been considerable...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-54861-8 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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The Jurisprudence of Pregnancy: Concepts of Conflict, Persons and Property
By Mary Ford
This book takes a critical conceptual approach to the jurisprudence of pregnancy, examining how the three concepts of conflict, personhood and property are key to the legal analysis and decision-making surrounding pregnancy. The book begins by questioning the ‘conflict model’ which is often assumed...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-55559-3 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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Gender, Development and the State in India
By Carole Spary
Gender, Development and the State in India offers an original contribution in two ways: firstly as an explicitly gender-focused study of the politics of development policy-making in India, and secondly, as an empirical study of the Indian case which rarely finds mention in the gender mainstreaming...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-61060-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Masculinities in Southeast Asia
Edited by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons
This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, the book examines both dominant constructions of masculinity and the...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-48223-3 | Hardback (Routledge)