Title: Global gender research : transnational perspectives /
Authors: Bose, Christine E.; Kim, Minjeong.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Sex role and globalization Cross-cultural studies.; Women Social conditions Cross-cultural studies.; Feminism Cross-cultural studies; Gender identity Cross-cultural studies.; Feminist theory.
Abstract: This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist sociological gender research and/or women's studies research for five regions of the world, represented by ten or 11 countries.
Contents: 1. Introduction to transnational and local issues / Christine E. Bose and Minjeong Kim -- Sect. 1. Africa -- 2. Introduction to gender research in Africa / Mary Johnson Osirim, Christine E. Bose and Minjeong Kim -- 3. Women's and gender studies in English-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of research in the social sciences / Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi and Mary Johnson Osirim -- 4. Trading goes global : Ghanaian market women in an era of globalization / Akosua K. Darkwah -- 5. Feminine injustice / Conceicao Osorio and Eulalia Temba -- 6. Women, the sacred and the state / Fatou Sow -- Sect. 2. Asia and the Middle East -- 7. Introduction to gender research in Asia and the Middle East / Minjeong Kim and Christine E. Bose -- 8. Promising and contested fields : advancing women's studies and sociology of women/gender in contemporary China / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Naihua Zhang and Wang Jinling -- 9. The study of gender in India : a partial review / Bandana Purkayastha, Mangala Subramaniam, Manisha Desai and Sunita Bose -- 10. Women's studies in Iran : the roles of activists and scholars / Shahla Ezazi -- 11. Masculinity and anti-Americanism : focusing on the identity of KATUSA / Insook Kwon -- 12. Gender, development and HIV/AIDS in Vietnam : towards an alternative response model among women sex workers / Van Huy Nguyen, Udoy Sankar Saikia and Thi Minh an Dao -- 13. Fufubessei movement in Japan : thinking about women's resistance and subjectivity / Ki-Young Shin -- Sect. 3. Latin America and the Caribbean -- 14. Between the dynamics of the global and the local : feminist and gender research in Latin America and the Caribbean / Edna Acosta-Belen -- 15. Relations in dispute : conflict and cooperation between academia and the feminist movements in Central America / Montserrat Sagot and Ana C. Escalante.