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C 928 FGM wird in vielen Ländern und Kulturen immer noch mit Hinweis auf fest verankerte Traditionen und Rituale vorgenommen, auch wenn erwiesen ist, dass sie eine hohe Gesundheitsgefährdung darstellt und oft lebenslange Traumatisierungen hervorruft. Sind alternative Übergangsrituale ein Weg für lokale Gemeinschaften und Partner der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, um gute Traditionen zu bewahren, schädliche Praktiken aber zu vermeiden? Melanie Feuerbach beschreibt zum einen die theoretischen Prämissen und historischen Entwicklungen von Übergangsritualen für Mädchen im subsaharischen Afrika. Zum anderen untersucht sie ausführlich die Entstehung, Struktur und den Stand alternativer Übergangsrituale in der Frauen-Projektarbeit in Kenia - anhand eines Projektes von World Vision bei den Ethnien der Marakwet und Pokot im Kerio Valley sowie eines Projektes der Mbuyuni Women Group bestehend aus Mitgliedern der Ethnien der Maasai, Kamba, Taita und Taveta in der Nähe von Jipe. Die Autorin stützt sich dabei hauptsächlich auf Interviews mit Vertreter_innen der an entsprechenden Projekten beteiligten NGOs in Kenia, mit Teilnehmer_innen und lokalen Stakeholdern sowie auf weitere empirische Erhebungen während ihrer Forschungsaufenthalte. Ein wichtiges Ergebnis der Untersuchung ist, dass die innovativen Potenziale lokaler Gruppen gestärkt werden sollten. Sie haben oft in Eigeninitiative neue Rituale für den Übergang von Mädchen in das Frau-Sein erfunden, für deren Fortführung und Verbreitung ihnen aber die Mittel fehlen. Diese Rituale integrieren kulturelle Elemente früherer Rituale, wie die rituelle Zuweisung des Erwachsenenstatus, und binden ganze Dorfgemeinschaften ein. Gefragt sind somit integrierte Programme, die an den Bedürfnissen der Selbsthilfegruppen ansetzen. |
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LA-RES-03 Im Jahr 1908 setzen der mexikanische Hauptmann Ramón Arnaud, seine junge Braut Alicia und elf weitere Soldaten mit ihren Familien die Segel, um zur Clipperton-Insel, einem winzigen pazifischen Atoll, aufzubrechen. Sie haben den Auftrag, das abgeschiedene - aber strategisch wichtige - Eiland vor einer eher unwahrscheinlichen Invasion seitens der Franzosen zu schützen. Aber dann werden die Bewohner_innen auf Clipperton wegen der politischen Wirren in der Heimat und dem Nahen des Ersten Weltkriegs einfach vergessen. Und das Überleben aller hängt auf einmal von Alicias Mut und List ab. Mit ihrem reichen Korallenriff rund um das Atoll und der stehenden Lagune ist die Clipperton-Insel kein einladender Ort für ihre neuen Bewohner_innen. Aber diese machen das Beste daraus: Die starre militärische Ordnung weicht bald einem eher informellen Inselleben; die Gruppe errichtet ein Lebensmittelgeschäft, eine Apotheke, einen Leuchtturm und feiert Partys. Aber dann bleiben plötzlich die Versorgungsschiffe aus. Sich selbst und der unwirtlichen Natur ausgeliefert, sieht sich das Grüppchen mannigfaltigen Gefahren gegenüber: Skorbut, Hunger, Verzweiflung, Eifersucht, Gewalt. In dieser Situation wird die unerschütterliche und einfallsreiche Alicia zur letzten Hoffnung der Bewohner_innen auf der Insel der Verlorenen. |
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D 691 Wie unterschiedlich ein und dieselbe Passage des Korans übersetzt werden kann, ist eines der Themen, auf die Irene Schneider eingeht. Wenn Koranexegese aus weiblicher Sicht betrieben wird, dann führt sie zu anderen Erkenntnissen, als wenn Männer, noch dazu patriarchale Geister, dieselben Texte analysieren. Dabei verweist Schneider auf drei weibliche Idealtypen - die islamistische Feministin, die im Namen des Glaubens die größten Einschränkungen verficht; die muslimische Feministin, die eine Balance zwischen Glauben und modernen, auch in internationalen Abkommen verankerten Rechten sucht; und die säkulare Feministin, die für eine stärkere oder vollständige Trennung von Staat und Religion eintritt. Schneider gibt einen Überblick über die Anfänge des Islam und das Leben Mohammeds. Sie erklärt die zentralen Regeln des Korans zum Geschlechterverhältnis sowie die rechtliche Entwicklung im 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert und das wachsende Engagement zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen. Sie vergleicht die Rechtslagen islamischer Staaten mit der Scharia und mit den Darstellungen der Weiterentwicklung des islamischen Familienrechts. Weiters setzt sie der westlichen Wahrnehmung unterdrückter Musliminnen die Geschichten beeindruckender Sultaninnen und gläubiger Freiheitskämpferinnen entgegen. Schneider konzentriert sich in ihrem Buch auf die muslimische Welt von Marokko bis Afghanistan, die ursprüngliche Kernregion des Islams, weiters gibt sie einen kurzen Einblick zum Thema von Musliminnen in Deutschland. |
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I E 1004 Indigenous Roots of Feminism is an exploration of the historical sources across India's composite culture that have shaped the female self. Beginning with the Upanishads, it works with several foundational texts such as the epics and their retellings, Manusmriti, Natya Sastra and the literature of the Bhakti Movement in order to trace the histories of feminist questionings. The constant interweaving of literary and social texts and the tracing of both continuities and disruptions across time and space enables a perception of the way in which individual struggles have merged with collective resistance and allowed a questioning of relationships, institutional frameworks, and traditional role models. Feminism as an ideology is invariably linked to culture as it works with both the body and the consciousness. Indigenous Roots, without allowing itself to be submerged in excessive data, examines the validity of this belief across time to trace a connectivity with cultural formations. |
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HA-9-0040 The Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues with a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs. Serving as a tool for guiding and showcasing key principles in integrating gender into projects, this Sourcebook aims to inspire the imagination of practitioners to apply lessons learned, experiences, and innovations to the design and investment in the agriculture sector. The Sourcebook focuses on agricultural livelihoods, with agriculture defined broadly as "agriculture, forestry, fisheries, livestock, land and water, agro-industries, and environment," following the FAO definition. The Sourcebook is grounded in the notion of agriculture's central role in providing rural livelihoods, food security, and broad-based poverty reduction. Although the Sourcebook focuses on the agriculture sector, it is also aware of the fluctuations of agricultural livelihoods so that poverty reduction and rural development requires a holistic approach. Both nonagriculture-specific sectors, such as rural finance, rural infrastructure, and rural labor with a reference to agriculture-driven activities, and social protection policies are addressed in the Sourcebook. The Modules are selected based on themes of cross-cutting importance for agriculture and rural development with strong gender dimensions (policy and governance; agricultural innovation and education; food security; product and input markets; rural finance; rural infrastructure; water; land; labor; natural resource management; and crises) and specific subsectors in agriculture (crops, livestock, forestry, and fisheries). A separate module on monitoring and evaluation is included, responding to the need to track implementation and development outcomes. |
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I A 2623 Indien ; Kolonialismus ; Islam ; Imperialismus A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term-and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference-such as race, class, and sexuality-inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives. |
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I E 1002 Indien ; Pakistan ; Krieg ; Erfahrungsbericht ; Geschichte Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. Pakistani and Indian soldiers and Bengali militiamen raped and tortured women on a mass scale. In Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh, survivors tell their stories, revealing the power of speaking that deemed unspeakable. They talk of victimization-of rape, loss of status and citizenship, and the "war babies" born after 1971. The women also speak as agents of change, as social workers, caregivers, and wartime fighters. In the conclusion, men who terrorized women during the war recollect their wartime brutality and their postwar efforts to achieve a sense of humanity. Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh sheds new light on the relationship among nation, history, and gender in postcolonial South Asia. |
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I D 690 The popularity of neoliberal economic policies is based, in part, on the argument that the liberalization of markets promotes growth and increases employment opportunities for women. Although the latest research bears this out, it also presents a grim portrait of the state of women's employment. Approximately seventy percent of those living on less than a dollar a day are women or girls. In Veiled Employment, the editors seek to examine these stark disparities, focusing on the evolving role of women's employment in Iran. Based on empirical field research in Iran, the contributors' essays document the accelerating trend in the size and diversity of women's employment since the 1990s and explore the impact of various governmental policies on women. The volume analyzes such issues as the effect of global trade on female employment, women's contribution to the informal work sector, and Iranian female migrant workers in the United States. Rejecting the commonly held view that centers on Islam as the primary cause of women's status in the Muslim world, the authors emphasize the role of the national and international political economies. Drawing on postcolonial feminist theory, these scholars reveal the ways in which women in Iran have resisted and challenged Islamism, revealing them as agents of social transformation rather than as victims of religious fundamentalism. |
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G 1151 Führungskraft ; Biographie The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. Not only are women - specifically Black women - poorly represented in leadership positions and the field's knowledge base, they are vastly underrepresented in the actual content of leadership courses and texts. This book analyzes the transformational leadership, servant leadership, and social justice leadership found in the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde. The book not only chronicles the careers and professional contributions of these women, but also uses these leadership models as units of analysis to highlight their effective leadership "herstories" to inform current practice. As African American women who embodied the history, politics, and educational aspirations of an otherwise oppressed people, an analysis of their lived experiences and leadership roles creates a distinctive theoretical and methodological application to leadership theory and practice. These women advanced their ideas and theories about leadership through their personal, political, and social activism. Examining their lives results in a more complete picture of the effects of race, sexuality, and class and how they are related to current practice in leadership. Herstories provides an important (re)visioning of leadership theory by documenting the leadership lives of six strong black women. |
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A 2618 In this examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the world both inside and outside the home and highlighting the innovative ways women workers attain their common goals. |
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I A 2622 In an increasingly globalized world, the movement
of peoples across national borders is posing unprecedented challenges,
for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel
and their countries of origin. Citizenship is now a topic in focus around
the world but much of that discussion takes place without sufficient attention
to the women, men, and children, in and out of families, whose statuses
and treatments depend upon how countries view their arrival. As essays
in this volume detail, both the practices and theories of citizenship
need to be reappraised in light of the array of persons and of twentieth-century
commitments to their dignity and equality. "Migrations and Mobilities"
situates gender in the context of ongoing, urgent conversations about
globalization, citizenship, and the meaning of borders. Following an introductory
essay by editors Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik that addresses the parameters
and implications of gendered migration, the interdisciplinary contributors
consider a wide range of issues, from workers' rights to children's rights,
from theories of the nation-state and federalism to obligations under
transnational human rights conventions. Together, the essays in this path-breaking
collection force us to consider the pivotal role that gender should play
in reconceiving the nature of citizenship in the contemporary, transnational
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D 689 There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all
are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven
invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread
the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web
to build a transnational community intent on growing women's rights in
the Middle East. There is a large disparity between a Muslim woman's role
according to the Qur'an and her role as some corners of Muslim society
have interpreted it. In "Velvet Jihad" Faegheh Shirazi reveals
the creative strategies Muslim women have adopted to quietly fight against
those who would limit their growing rights. Shirazi examines issues that
are important to all women, from routine matters such as daily hygiene
and clothing to controversial subjects like abortion, birth control, and
virginity. |
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I G 1150 Die in den letzten Jahrzehnten intensiv geführten Debatten um das Konzept der Gerechtigkeit kreisen insbesondere um die Euro- und Androzentriertheit des Konzeptes, welches zudem einer westlichen (hetero-)normativen Rahmung verhaftet bleibt. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert postkoloniale, feministische, queere und rassismuskritische Beiträge, die der Frage nachgehen, ob Gerechtigkeitsnormen die Handlungsmacht marginalisierter Gruppen und Communities erweitern oder eben die bestehenden Machtbeziehungen zwischen denen, die als Gebende von Gerechtigkeit, und denen, die als Empfangende konstituiert werden, stabilisieren. |
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I A 2621 Drawing on domestic and international law, as well
as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, Gender
Stereotyping offers perspectives on ways gender stereotypes might be eliminated
through the transnational legal process in order to ensure women's equality
and the full exercise of their human rights. A leading international framework
for debates on the subject of stereotypes, the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), was adopted in 1979
by the UN General Assembly and defines what constitutes discrimination
against women. It also establishes an agenda to eliminate discrimination
in all its forms in order to ensure substantive equality for women. Applying
the Convention as the primary framework for analysis, this book provides
essential strategies for eradicating gender stereotyping. Its proposed
methodology requires naming operative gender stereotypes, identifying
how they violate the human rights of women, and articulating states' obligations
to eliminate and remedy these violations. According to Rebecca J. Cook
and Simone Cusack, in order to abolish all forms of discrimination against
women, priority needs to be given to the elimination of gender stereotypes.
While stereotypes affect both men and women, they can have particularly
egregious effects on women, often devaluing them and assigning them to
subservient roles in society. As the legal perspectives offered in Gender
Stereotyping demonstrate, treating women according to restrictive generalizations
instead of their individual needs, abilities, and circumstances denies
women their human rights and fundamental freedoms. |
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I F 1059 The book provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By exploring political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones-a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation-Irina Carlota Silber offers a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization. Silber provides one of the first rubrics for understanding and contextualizing postwar disillusionment, drawing on her ethnographic fieldwork and research on immigration to the United States by former insurgents. With an eye for gendered experiences, she unmasks how community members are asked, contradictorily and in different contexts, to relinquish their identities as "revolutionaries" and to develop a new sense of themselves as productive yet marginal postwar citizens via the same "participation" that fueled their revolutionary action. Everyday Revolutionaries contributes to important debates in public anthropology and the ethics of engaged research practices. |
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I E 1003 Nach ihrem ersten Buch "Sternendiebe" legt Nicole Mtawa nun dieses Buch vor und erzählt darin, wie sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann ein Pflegeheim für pflegebedürftige Kinder eröffnete. Nach ihrem Studium will Nicole die Welt bereisen. Dabei begegnen ihr so viel Elend und Armut, dass sie ihre geplante Karriere und ihr Leben im Wohlstand komplett in Frage stellt. In New Delhi gründet sie stattdessen ein Heim für verstoßene, pflegebedürftige Kinder, um ihnen ein Zuhause in Geborgenheit zu geben. |
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I A 2620 Wenn wir lesen, dass in Afghanistan deutsche Soldaten sterben, sind wir betroffen. Das Schicksal gleichzeitig getöteter ziviler DorfbewohnerInnen bekümmert uns deutlich weniger. Der Krieg, so erklärt Judith Butler diese unterschiedliche Wahrnehmung, dient uns als Deutungsrahmen, nach dem einige Leben mehr wert sind als andere. Zugleich ist der Krieg nur möglich, weil weitere Rahmen oder Raster ("frames") den bewaffneten Konflikt als notwendig erscheinen lassen. Anhand der Themen Folter, Fotografie, Einwanderungs- und Sexualpolitik, Rassismus und moderne Kriegsführung macht Butler deutlich, welche Rahmen unsere Wahrnehmung auf welche Weise beeinflussen. Insbesondere sucht sie all diejenigen einzubeziehen, deren Leben im derzeit vorherrschenden westlichen Rahmen gar nicht oder nur als zu vernachlässigendes Leben vorkommt und deren Tod in diesem Rahmen kaum betrauert werden kann. Sie betont, dass alles Leben "prekär" ist, angewiesen auf Unterstützung und Hilfe - das Leugnen dieses ungeschützten, gefährdeten Lebens ist der erste Schritt auf dem Weg in den Krieg. |
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I E 998 In 1947 India was simultaneously freed and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied by a bloody partition in which one million people perished and over ten million were displaced in the largest peace-time mass migration this century has recorded. Borders & Boundaries attempts a feminist reading of Partition providing, for the first time, testimonies and memories of women caught in the turmoil of the time. The authors make women not only visible, but central, by looking at the general experience of violence, dislocation and displacement from a gendered perspective. Interviews with women survivors, social workers, government functionaries form the core of the book, supplemented by a narrative based on documents, confidential reports, parliamentary debates, letters and diaries. The women's accounts are vivid with memories of loss and violence, the experience of abduction and widowhood, of rehabilitation and, sometimes, even liberation. The counterpointing of their voices with others, official and non-official, highlights the relationship between women, communities and the state; between women and their families; and between women and their men. |
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I A 2619 Transnationalität ist eine Ressource, die zur Erklärung grenzübergreifender ökonomischer, sozialer und kultureller Bezüge von Migrantinnen und Migranten herangezogen werden kann. Antonie Schmiz lässt in dieser multi-sited Ethnography Groß- und Einzelhändler_innen, Dienstleister_innen und Rückkehrer_innen als Akteurinnen und Akteure im transnationalen sozialen Raum zwischen Berlin und Vietnam zur Sprache kommen. Anhand von Netzwerken, Sozialkapital und strukturellen Bedingungen in der Aufnahmegesellschaft wird die Inklusion dieser Gruppe analysiert. Sie liefert damit eine detaillierte Studie zum Arbeitsmarkt vietnamesischer Migrantinnen und Migranten. |
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I E 992 In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women's roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women's groups, government-run women's centres and the individual activities of feminists Haruka Yoko and Kitahara Minori. Based on two years of fieldwork conducted in Japan and drawing on extensive interviews and ethnographic data, it argues that the work of individual activists and women's organisations in Japan promotes real and potential change to gender roles and expectations among Japanese women. It explores the ways that feminism is created, promoted and limited among Japanese women, and advocates a broader construction of what the feminist movement is understood to be and a rethinking of the boundaries of feminist identification. It also addresses the impact of legislation, government bureaucracy, literature and the internet as avenues of feminist development, and details the ways which these promote agency - the ability to act - among Japanese women. |
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