Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 041557949X ISBN 13 : 9780415579490

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Regulating the International Movement of Women Interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The question of how to conceptualize the relationships between governments and the everyday lives of women has long been the focus of attention among feminists. Feminist scholarship critiques womens lives, experiences and gender inequality in a variety of contexts. In this age of increased internationalism, we are witness to government actors attempts to use womens alleged `vulnerability to justify its humanitarian interventions. Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates western governments uses of discourses of human vulnerability as a tool to regulate non-western womens migration. In this collection of provocatively argued essays, the contributors wish to reclaim the concept of racialised and gendered vulnerability, from its under theorized, and thus, ambiguous location in feminists theory, in a variety of methodological and geographical contexts. The book addresses the human geographer, the socio-legal and critical scholar, the sociologist, the cultural, postcolonial and political theorists and practitioners. This unique text will be of value to academics, postgraduate and research students of any of the above disciplines, as well as practitioners interested in theoretical and empirical discussions of the state, normativity and the regulation of women `s cross-border mobility.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sharron Fitzgerald is based at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 041557949X
• ISBN 13: 9780415579490
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 14