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ENGENDERING
HUMAN SECURITY: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
Thanh-Dam Truong,
Saskia Wieringa, Amrita Chhachhi (Eds.)
Rs 450 Hb 2006
81-88965-25-1 |
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This
books combines a feminist materialist analysis of
gender relations with a feminist post-modern approach
to gender representation and cultural construction.
The former approach insists on structural commonality
and continuity with regard to the material significance
of sexuality, care and work for a full understanding
of women’s human conditions and social position;
the latter resists over-generalization and argues
for a localized understanding of the ever-changing
interplay between structures of state, gender, ethnicity
and women’s social identity. A combination
of the two approaches makes for a rich account of
the current transformation of the gendered conditions
of human security at both levels: societal and quotidian.
It also bridges an analysis of culture with politics
and economics and integrates an analysis of class
with citizenship and other dimensions of gender
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Dr.
THANH-DAM TRUONG
Associate
Professor in Women, Gender and Development
Studies at the Institute of Social Studies,
The Hague, is one of the first scholars to
have provided an academic analysis of the
problem of sex tourism. She has been translated
into several languages and has published widely
on other subjects such as human trafficking
and organised crime, gender and transition
in Vietnam in other areas, and gender and
human security.
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Dr.
SASKIA WIERINGA
is director
of the International Information Centre and
Archives for the Women's Movement in Amsterdam
and an affiliated senior researcher at the
University of Amsterdam. She has written
or (co) edited 14 books, including two books
of fiction and numerous
scholarly articles, mainly on the women's
movement, sexuality and gender planning. She
is the President of the International Association
for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society.
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Dr.
AMRITA CHHACHHI
is Lecturer
in Women, Gender and Development Studies at
the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
Her research interests are gender, labour,
poverty and socio-economic restructuring;
citizenship, social protection and human security
with particular reference to the labour market
and social policies and gender, culture and
globalisation. She has written several books
and papers on these subjects.
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