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Indigenous Women’s Rights brings together, for the first time, the perspective of indigenous peoples from across the Commonwealth, and particularly indigenous women, on matters of public policy that particularly concern them. The Commonwealth, with one-third of the world’s population, is home to some fifty percent of the world’s indigenous peoples.

The book includes case studies from all regions of the globe. It presents the lived experiences of indigenous women in their own words, combined with policy analysis, information briefs on each Commonwealth country with an indigenous population, and a policy brief for government officials.

Indigenous Women’s Rights will help will help indigenous peoples to share their different experiences and identify common themes and will assist governments in creating an enabling environment for indigenous peoples to participate to the full.
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The recognition of diversity and difference has been a significant development in feminist theory in recent years. This volume attempts to approach and demonstrate these developments in a number of ways. First by drawing on women and men's own experience in auto/biographical and life history accounts, second by providing a range of theoretical explanation for gender and difference, and third by examining perspectives on the construction of social identities. The selection of articles illustrates the MAJOR axes around which difference coalesces into identities - gender, race and class - and provide studies and research which have illuminated these social processes. ... Read more

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Here is a comprehensive and hugely important treatment of the topic of gender and demographic behaviour. It covers a lot of ground, from the age at first intercourse, through union formation and dissolution, to subjects such as fertility, migration, and ageing. It also examines in detail excess male mortality and provides a comparison of gender-specific behaviour and its determinants. It reports new findings of empirical research, mostly based on data from a number of European countries, making good use of Family and Fertility surveys and other international databases.

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During the past two decades, the study of how gender influences social life moved from the outskirts to the centre of psychology. Some of psychology's most cherished assumptions have been challenged and feminist scholars proposed alternative views of human development, research methods, cognitive functioning, family life and communication. These challenges invigorated many areas of psychology.

Distinctive in its emphasis on applied issues that have practical importance in the lives of women and men, this volume presents current knowledge about key gender issues and sheds light on problems and controversies. Specific issues explored include: gender differences in emotion; desire for control; attitudes towards leadership; and expressive behaviour.

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Provocative and highly readable, this book makes clear that the first step toward developing a gender-balanced learning environment is an awareness of the ways gender differences in language play themselves out in the classroom. ... Read more

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The very notion of woman submisiveness, sponteneous, trained or socially conditioned, has triggered off a range of varied shades of violence around her in the form of domestic violence, rape, acid attack, etc... ... Read more

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Gender, equity, learning, and information technology can intersect to form a theoretical and abstract field of knowledge emanating from very real, concrete, lived experiences.

Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts discusses the social studies of information technology, specifically how IT skills are learned and how such skills are gendered.This book draws upon the disciplines of sociology, education, cultural and media studies, and gender studies, using a variety of research methods and theoretical perspectives to approach gender and IT in different contexts: education settings, work settings and everyday life. This unique reference source brings to light gender relations and IT, examining them in a multidimensional way.

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This book provides a guide to the popular, but highly controversial and contested subject of equal opportunities and its related policy in the three main areas of gender, race and disability. ... Read more

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This book discusses equal opportunity for education in a global context. Research findings from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America are presented. Wilson and Erskine have compiled chapters addressing current gender issues as well as specific problems facing policy makers and professionals alike. ... Read more

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Violence, its specificity and significance across temporal and spatial boundaries, is a key topic for feminist scholarship. This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time.

The contributors discuss violence in a wide range of contexts, from castration and blinding as punishment for treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England, through the rearing of professional female fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia, to the Domestic Violence (Prevention) Bill in India in 2002. They ask why some forms of violence are valorised, permitted or rendered invisible, while others are stigmatised, policed or criminalised; and they consider the relationship between everyday violent acts, and the extraordinary or spectacular use of violence as humiliation or punishment.

The book helps readers to understand violence as a as a performative act that can be read symptomatically and as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures. ... Read more

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This collection of essays explores the signifiance of gender in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Margaret Foester presents a critique and revision of Freud's formulations on women in light of object relations theory. Developmental perspectives are offered by Elaine V. Siegel, who explicates the struggle for gender differentiation in two boys, and by Anni Bergman, who delineates the impact of a mother's core gender conflicts on her daughter's personality development. The role of the analyst's gender is discussed by Dale H. Ontmeyer in terms of idealization striving and by Suzanne B. Phillips in work with homosexual patients. Judith T. Davis examines women's strivings for intimacy as they attain separation-individuation and autonomy. Morton Kissen updates Freud's "whore-madonna" formulation from an object relations viewpoint, applies it to women's problems with intimacy and commitment, and presents a structural perspective on gender and superego development. ... Read more

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This collection of studies is the first title published by the Department of Women & Gender Studies at the University of Buea, Cameroon. The volume provides examples of research undetaken in different parts of Cameroon on poverty reduction, women plantation workers, gender relations within the University and on masculinity in the city of Douala. It includes contributions on the efforts of local faith communities to enhance the quality of life and empowerment of women; the voices representing a wide range of men and women of the faith communities. The volume provides examples of research undertaken by the Department of Women & Gender Studies in different parts of Cameroon on poverty reduction, women plantation workers, gender relations within the university and on masculinity in a major city, Douala. The papers further consider the role of international NGOs and work done by the church in and conclude with two papers on labour relations in Barbados. The book is the result of a collaborative, international research project. Two of the editors, both of whom have had long association with Cameroon, are from Oxford University and the University of the West Indies. ... Read more

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Issues of internationality, management, gender and education are brought together in these case studies from Bangladesh, the Caribbean, England, Indonesia and Southern Africa. The authors explore concepts of leadership, the influence of language, culture and religion on gender relations, the forms of discrimination and its effects, and consider mentoring and other action for change. ... Read more