Books in the Routledge International Studies of Women and Place series

This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally, highlighting case studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Jacobs also compares agrarian and land reforms organized along collective lines as well as those organizing along individual household lines.

This recognises the significance of place in the developing world, challenging Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in the analysis of the changing lives of the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.

This book explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the Amazon to activist groups fighting racism in New York and bridges the gap between rural and urban movements

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring new and exciting insights to the study of livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the book develops solution-oriented advances to theory, policy and planning to tackle the complexity of these global environmental changes.

Explores the geographies of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development. Case studies examine these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies.

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of 'the nation'.

The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center.

This book explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the Amazon to activist groups fighting racism in New York and bridges the gap between rural and urban movements.

This volume, a feminist inquiry into the landscape, provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place and landscape interpretations.

This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Investigates the impact of relocation on gender and family relations among transnational professionals.

This work examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arise from this kind of movement.

International development policy is responsible for much of the destruction of Central and Latin American rainforests. This explores how indigenous women are at last turning their voices to action, demanding grassroots strategies as the solution.

Examines how social boundaries are constructed between men and women in the work place and how these differences are grounded, constituted in and through, space, place and situated social networks.

Gender, Planning and Human Rights explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development.

Discussing both historical developments and contemporary events Women Divided offers topical and important new perspectives on issues of gender and sectarianism in Northern Ireland.

Describes the very different lives of women in developed and developing countries from childhood to old age, analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course.

"Who Will Mind the Baby?" explores how working mothers negotiate their responsibilities and contrasts the limited childcare policies of the United States and Canada with the more advanced situation in Europe and Australia.

This text analyzes the impact of the occupier/occupied relationship on Palestinian and Jewish women. Exposing a set of previously unarticulated internal conflicts and differences, it discusses their existing loyalties, reinforced as different groups of women have moved into political action.

Investigates the rise of a new 'servant' class in response to demands by the middle class, and the socio-economic trends which have led to this and profound change this reflects in our concepts of motherhood, class and gender relations.

Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America and Asia, this book challenges traditional development practices of North over South, arguing for the inclusion of issues such as identity and political action as the way forward.

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world.

The book provides a geographical lens on questions of reproduction, fertility and birth in a world where procreation increasingly turns into a global endeavour. It explores the role that mobility, place and embodiment play in women and men¿s experiences of fertility and birth, and evidences dynamics of cultural difference, intergenerational networks, performances of care and social inequity.