Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Vol. II: Gender, Identities and Networks

  • Editors
  • Ilse Lenz
  • Helma Lutz
  • Mirjana Morokvasic
  • Claudia Schöning-Kalender
  • Helen Schwenken
Book

Part of the Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversität »Technik und Kultur« book series (SIFU, volume 11)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages 1-6
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  2. Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

    1. Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries
      Ilse Lenz, Helma Lutz, Mirjana Morokvasic, Claudia Schöning-Kalender, Helen Schwenken
      Pages 7-16

  3. Nationalism, Racisms, Ethnicisms

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. ‘Housewives of the Public’ The Cultural Signification of the Sri Lankan Nation
      Malathi de Alwis
      Pages 19-38
    3. The Militarizing of Civil Society: Creation of the Mujahid (Warrior) and the ‘Good Woman’ in Pakistani Society
      Aneela Babar
      Pages 39-55
    4. The Long Shadows of the Past. The New Europe at a Crossroad
      Helma Lutz
      Pages 57-73
    5. A Monocultural Nation in a Multi-Cultural Society?
      Ann Phoenix
      Pages 75-92

  4. Space, Cultures and Identities in Process

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 93-93
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    2. Gender, Dress and Nation — The Modernization Discourse in Turkey
      Claudia Schöning-Kalender
      Pages 95-103
    3. The Performative Vernacular: An Approach to City and Gender
      Aysegül Baykan
      Pages 105-112
    4. Displaying the Other. Tribal Museums and the Politics of Culture in India
      Neela Karnik
      Pages 113-129
    5. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City
      Saskia Sassen
      Pages 131-143

  5. Transnational Gender Democracy: Difference and Equality

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 145-145
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    2. Feminist and Migrant Networking in a Globalising World Migration, Gender and Globalisation
      Ilse Lenz, Helen Schwenken
      Pages 147-178
    3. International Women’s Networks, Social Justice and Cross-Border Democracy
      Marina Calloni
      Pages 179-206
    4. Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
      Amel Hamza
      Pages 207-221
    5. Support, Lobbying and Networking in the Context of Trafficking in Women
      Jae-Soon Joo-Schauen, Behshid Najafi
      Pages 223-235
    6. Overcoming the Culture of Impunity for Wartime Sexual Violence
      Yayori Matsui
      Pages 237-250
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 251-256
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About this book

Introduction

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

Keywords

Gender Geschlecht Geschlechterforschung Globalisierung Nation Netzwerkgesellschaft Transnational citizenship globalization migration

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09527-9
  • Copyright Information VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2002
  • Publisher Name VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden
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  • Print ISBN 978-3-8100-3494-6
  • Online ISBN 978-3-663-09527-9
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