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social impacts and magnifies exisnginequalies such as the disparitybetween women and men in theirvulnerability and ability to cope withthis global phenomenon. Over 35authors have contributed to the book.It starts with a short history of thethinking and pracce around genderand sustainable development overthe past decades. Next it provides atheorecal framework for analyzingclimate change manifestaons andpolicies from the perspecve of genderand human security. Drawing on newresearch, the actual and potenaleffects of climate change on genderequality and women’s vulnerabiliesare examined, both in rural and urbancontexts. This is illustrated with a richrange of case studies from all over theworld and valuable lessons are drawnfrom these real experiences. Too oenwomen are primarily seen as vicms ofclimate change, and their posive rolesas agents of change and contributors tolivelihood strategies are neglected. Thebook disputes this characterizaon andprovides many examples of how womenaround the world organize and buildresilience and adapt to climate changeand the role they are playing in climatechange migaon. The final seconlooks at how far gender mainstreamingin climate migaon and adaptaonhas advanced, the policy frameworks inplace and how we can move from policyto effecve acon.Routledgewww.routledge.comGender and Labour in ContemporaryIndia: Eroding Cizenship, by AmritaChhachhi, 2011, 256 pp. Providinga comprehensive analysis of theelectronics industry in India, this bookhighlights the gendered nature of laborregimes and domesc regimes andalso the linkages between households,labor markets, factories and the state,to provide a more comprehensiveunderstanding of the relaonshipbetween gender and economic/industrial restructuring. Making animportant contribuon to the growingamount of available literature on genderand globalizaon, the author analyzesthe struggles that women workershave been engaged in over their work,wages and service condions and intheir personal lives. These asseronsof cizenship in pracce highlight thesignificance of agency and public aconin ensuring legal entlements as well asa consciousness of rights among workersand provide a new perspecve on thebroader theme of women’s employmentand globalizaon.Changing Marriage Paerns inSoutheast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions, edited by GavinW. Jones, Terence H. Hull, and MaznahMohamad, 2011, 240 pp. This bookprovides a comprehensive and up-todatepicture of partnerships andmarriage in the Southeast Asian regionusing quantave data alongsidequalitave approaches. Through theresearch of demographers, sociologistsand anthropologists, it examinesthe way trends in the formaon anddissoluon of marriages are related tochanges in the region’s economy andsociety; illuminang both the broadforces affecng marriage paerns andthe way these forces work out at theindividual and family level. This bookpresents the variety of contemporarymarriage paerns in the region with anemphasis on the ways in which marriageissues impinge on the welfare of thoseconcerned.The Polical Economy of GlobalRemiances: Gender, Governmentalityand Neoliberalism, by Rahel Kunz,2011, 226 pp. Over the last decade,a new phenomenon has emergedwithin the internaonal community:the Global Remiances Trend (GRT).Thereby, government instuons,internaonal (financial) organizaons,NGOs and private sector actors havebecome interested in migraon andremiances and their potenal forpoverty reducon and development,and have started to devise instuonsand policies to harness this potenal.This book employs a gender-sensivegovernmentality analysis to trace theemergence of the GRT, to map itsconceptual and instuonal elements,and to examine its broader implicaons.Through an analysis of the GRT at theinternaonal level, combined withan in-depth case study on Mexico,this book demonstrates that theGRT is instrumental in spreading anddeepening specific forms of genderedneoliberal governmentality.Vulnerable Daughters in India: Culture,Development and Changing Contexts,by Maas Larsen, 2011, 228 pp. InIndia, girls are aborted on a massivescale merely because they are girls.Underlying this widespread problem isthe puzzling fact that daughters havebecome vulnerable in a me of generalimprovement of welfare, female statusand deep economic and social changes.The findings center on a contradiconbetween the connued importance ofthe cultural factors which for so longhave established that a son is necessary,and socioeconomic changes that arechallenging the importance of thesevery same factors. This contradiconentails an uncertainty over sonsfulfilling expectaons which has,rather than lt the balance in favor ofdaughters, instead increased the relaveimportance of sons and intensifiednegave consequences for daughters.The original findings are based on settheorec systemac comparisons ofeight villages in Himachal Pradesh thatfacilitate a reconceptualizaon and analternave analysis that takes contextualdifferences into account. It builds onextensive fieldwork and collecon ofboth qualitave and quantave data.Microcredit and Women’sEmpowerment: A Case Study ofBangladesh, by Aminul Faraizi,Taskinur Rahman, and Jim McAllister,2010, 160 pp. Using a case study ofBangladesh, and based on a long termparcipatory observaon method,this book invesgates claims of thesuccess of microcredit, as well asBOOKS 15
the criques of it, in the context ofwomen’s empowerment. It confrontsthe disncon between women’sincreasing wealth as a consequence ofthe success of microcredit programsand their apparent non-commensurateempowerment, looking at twoorganizaons (the Grameen Bank andthe Bangladesh Rural AdvancementCommiee) as they operate in twolocalies in rural Bangladesh, in orderto discover how enrichment andempowerment are oen confused.The book goes on to establish that thewell-publicized success stories of themicrocredit program are blown out ofproporon, and that the dynamics ofcollecve responsibility for repaymentof loans by a group of womenborrowers—usually seen to be a toolfor the success of microcredit—is infact no less repressive than tradionaldebt collectors. This book makes acontribuon to development debates,challenging adherents to more closelyspecify those condions under whichmicrocredit does indeed have validity,as well as providing insights relevant toSouth Asian Studies and DevelopmentStudies.16The Gender Imperave: HumanSecurity vs State Security, edited byAsha Hans and Bey A. Reardon, 2010,472 pp. The book asserts that humansecurity derives from the experience andexpectaon of human wellbeing whichdepends on four essenal condions: alife sustaining environment, the meengof essenal physical needs, respectfor the identy and dignity of personsand groups, protecon from avoidableharm and expectaons of remedyfrom them. The book demonstratestheir integral relaonship to humansecurity. Patriarchy being the germinalparadigm from which most majorhuman instuons such as the state, theeconomy, organized religions and socialrelaons have evolved, the book arguesthat fundamental inequalies must bechallenged for the sake of equality andsecurity. The fundamental point raisedis that expectaon of human wellbeingis a connuing cause of armed conflictwhich constutes a threat to peaceand survival of all humanity and humansecurity cannot exist within a militarizedsecurity system. The editors of the bookbring together 14 essays which cricallyexamine militarized security in order tofind human security pathways, showBOOKSways in which to refute the dominantparadigm, indicate a clear genderanalysis that challenges the currentsystem, and suggests alternaves tomilitarized security.Practical Actionwww.praccalacon.orgGender and the Economic Crisis,edited by Ruth Pearson and CarolineSweetman, 2011, 170 pp. Contributorsto this book map the emerging impactof the economic crisis on women, menand their families in different contexts,and suggest policy and pracce changes.Authors include key figures in theresearch field as well as policymakersand development praconers,who analyze, with first-handexperience, the inial impactsof the economic crisis inSouth and East Asia, Africa,Lan America, and the MiddleEast. The current globaleconomic crisis is expectedto lead to millions morepeople being pushed intoextreme poverty. The effectsare profoundly different forwomen and men, and theexisng gender inequaliesand power imbalances meanthat addional problems arefalling disproporonatelyon those who are alreadystructurally disempowered andmarginalized. The economiccrisis is the latest elementin a complex web of shocksand longer-term traumasaffecng women, men andtheir families in developing countries.These include food and fuel shocks,changing climac condions, and theHIV pandemic. For many people livingin poverty, these crises are experiencedas one mulfaceted crisis, which hasaccentuated already exisng underlyingchronic concerns in both the producveand the reproducve (care) economiesof the world. While these issuesremain largely invisible to mainstreameconomists and policymakers, they arecrical to the development of effecveand sustainable responses to the crisis.
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