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Trade policy and gender equality
With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses recent trade negotiations and agreements through a gender lens. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009363716
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- xxvii, 402 pages
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- 343.08 BAH t
Power, alliances, and redistribution : the politics of social protection for …
Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world. Paradoxically, the development of resource-intensive social systems has done little to change the social imbalance. The author traces this paradox using Argentina as an example, uncovering the underlying conflicts of power and interests, and identifying successful strategies for implementing inclusive policies. As the first st…
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- 9783966650281
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- 373p
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- 306.0982 BOS
The informal economy revisited : examining the past, envisioning the future
Contributor(s) Chen, Martha (editor) Carré, Françoise (editor) Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the in…
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- 9780367191511
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- ix, 326 p
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- 330 CHE
Antiracism Inc : why the way we talk about racial justice matters
"Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it. While related to…
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- 9781950192236
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- 382 hlm
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- 305.8
Sex work, health, and human rights : global inequities, challenges, and oppor…
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social an…
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- 9783030641719
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- XXIII, 263 p
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- 306.74 SHI s
Relating Worlds of Racism : dehumanisation, belonging, and the normativity of…
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation…
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- 9783319789903
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- xxiii, 463p. : ill.
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- 305.8 REL r
Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decoloni…
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly wh…
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- 9783319530796
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- xvi, 223p.
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- 305.8001 DEI r
Changing gender norms in Islam between reason and revelation
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolu…
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- 9783863882983
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- 247p
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- 305.48697 MAR c
From Colonialism to International Aid : External Actors and Social Protection…
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies. Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which externa…
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- 9783030382001
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- xi, 377p. : ill
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- 341.584 FRO f
Imagining unequals, imagining equals : concepts of equality in history and law
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various historical case studies, from visionary practices in revolutionary France and the collection of data on the poor in 19th-century Germany, to claims raised under the minorit…
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- 9783839458877
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- 254 pg; ill.
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- 305.09 ULR i
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