Power, Reproduction And, Gender

Power, Reproduction And, Gender
Author: Wendy Harcourt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

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Drawing on material from a wide variety of societies all immersed in deep change, the contributors investigate when and why people change their reproductive and sexual behaviour, and how knowledge is transferred within and between the generations.

The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer

The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer
Author: María Bustelo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-04-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137486856

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The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise. Its chapters critically reflect on the politics of feminist knowledge transfer, understood as an inherently political, dynamic and contested process, the overall aim of which is to transform gendered power relations in pursuit of more equal societies, workplaces, and policies. At its core, the work explores the relationship between gender expertise, gender training, and broader processes of feminist transformation arising from knowledge transfer activities. Examining these in a reflective way, the book brings a primarily practice-based debate into the academic arena. With contributions from authors of diverse backgrounds, including academics, practitioners and representatives of gender training institutions, the editors combine a focus on gender expertise and gender training, with more theory-focused chapters.

Managing Reproductive Life

Managing Reproductive Life
Author: Soraya Tremayne
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781571815002

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In 1999, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford held a workshop on the social dynamics of human reproduction. This volume contains 12 papers from scholars in Britain and the U.S. that were originally presented at that workshop. Topics include, for example, motherhood among young prostitutes in Thailand, the meaning of children in Hong Kong, and the reproductive health of refugees. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Author: Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781571816481

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Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other.

Gender, Development and Health

Gender, Development and Health
Author: Caroline Sweetman
Publisher: Oxfam
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780855984564

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Articles included here focus on understandings of reproductive health; integrating gender issues into infectious disease prevention; the impact of HIV/AIDS on women; working with communities to promote health and on the monitoring and evaluation of health projects from a gender perspective.

Encompassing Gender

Encompassing Gender
Author: Mary M. Lay
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781558612693

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From Beijing to Seattle, women's movements within academe and in local-global communities are growing at an unprecedented rate, raising pointed questions about paradigms of Western feminism, development, global trade, and scholarship. Despite this growing visibility, the perspectives of far too many women, especially from the Global South, are still excluded from mainstream U.S. scholarship. Presented with the task of preparing students for life in this new and rapidly shrinking world, many scholars have found themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders. But some faculty are leading the way -- often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices -- to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization. Encompassing Gender is the long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in curriculum-transformation groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum.

Sexual Decision-making and AIDS in Africa

Sexual Decision-making and AIDS in Africa
Author: Muthoni A. Mathai
Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 3899582268

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Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development

Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
Author: Lata Narayanaswamy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317812247

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Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor and marginalized groups’ in order to promote economic and social development, including the empowerment of women. Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development questions the assumptions and practice of the knowledge-for-development industry. Using a qualitative, multi-site ethnographical study of a Northern-based gender information service and its ‘beneficiaries’ in India, the book queries the utility of the knowledge paradigm itself and the underlying assumption that a knowledge deficit exists in the Global South. It questions the value of practices designed to address this presumed deficit that seek to increase information without addressing the specific problems of the knowledge systems being targeted for support. After reviewing the evidence, the book recommends that international organisations, governments and practitioners move away from the belief that information intermediaries can employ progressive correctives to ‘tinker at the edges’ and thus resolve the shortcomings of on-going attempts to use knowledge alone as a driver of development. Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development will be of great interest to researchers, students in development studies, gender studies, and communication studies as well as INGOs, donor agencies and groups engaged in information for development (i4D), ICT for development (ICT4D), Tech4Dev, knowledge mobilization and knowledge-for-development (K4D).

Inconceivable Iran

Inconceivable Iran
Author: Soraya Tremayne
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 180073672X

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Celebrating the 50th volume of the landmark Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series, this book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research arguing that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions, which are often reinforced, instead of radically altered, by new reproductive technologies, juridical opinions, and state policies.