Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries Vol. II: Gender, Identities and Networks

This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy. 

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lenz, Ilse (Editor), Lutz, Helma (Editor), Morokvasic-Müller, M. (Editor), Schöning-Kalender, Claudia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Nationalisms, Racisms, Ethnicisms
  • ‘Housewives of the Public’ The Cultural Signification of the Sri Lankan Nation
  • The Militarizing of Civil Society: Creation of the Mujahid (Warrior) and the ‘Good Woman’ in Pakistani Society
  • The Long Shadows of the Past. The New Europe at a Crossroad
  • A Monocultural Nation in a Multi-Cultural Society? British Continuities and Discontinuities in the Racialised and Gendered Nation
  • II: Space, Cultures and Identities in Process
  • Gender, Dress and Nation — The Modernization Discourse in Turkey
  • The Performative Vernacular: An Approach to City and Gender
  • Displaying the Other. Tribal Museums and the Politics of Culture in India
  • Analytic Boarderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City
  • III: Transnational Gender Democracy: Difference and Equality
  • Feminist and Migrant Networking in a Globalising World Migration, Gender and Globalisation
  • International Women’s Networks, Social Justice and Cross-Border Democracy
  • Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML): A Women’s Movement in the Islamic/Muslim World between Struggles, Strength, Challenges and Empowerment
  • Support, Lobbying and Networking in the Context of Trafficking in Women
  • Overcoming the Culture of Impunity for Wartime Sexual Violence — The Historical Significance of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000
  • The Authors and editors