Women in a Globalizing World : Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace

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Title: Women in a Globalizing World : Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Description: An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous, and subsistence perspectives on environmental, social, cultural, and political issues in women's local and global struggles and visions for another world. Anyone wanting to under- stand Canadian and international neo-liberal policies'im- pact on women and women's growing understanding and resistance to these policies will be interested in this book. As well as women's studies courses, this collection will be an indispensable resource for teachers seeking globally-in- formed, gender-, race-, class-, and Indigenous- aware Cana- dian resources for the study of sociology, international devel- opment, environmental studies, political economy, women's human rights, labour studies, social policy, social work, international relations, migration/immigration, violence, poverty, militarism, colonialism and post-colonialism, social movements, global feminisms, peace, community organizing, sustainability and alternative possibilities.
Authors: Angela Miles
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Women--Economic conditions, Globalization--Social aspects, Sex role and globalization, Women--Social conditions, Feminism
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous, and subsistence perspectives on environmental, social, cultural, and political issues in women's local and global struggles and visions for another world. Anyone wanting to under- stand Canadian and international neo-liberal policies'im- pact on women and women's growing understanding and resistance to these policies will be interested in this book. As well as women's studies courses, this collection will be an indispensable resource for teachers seeking globally-in- formed, gender-, race-, class-, and Indigenous- aware Cana- dian resources for the study of sociology, international devel- opment, environmental studies, political economy, women's human rights, labour studies, social policy, social work, international relations, migration/immigration, violence, poverty, militarism, colonialism and post-colonialism, social movements, global feminisms, peace, community organizing, sustainability and alternative possibilities.
ISBN:9781926708195
9781771330978
9781926708720