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This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate
disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that
prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.
Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of
women and girls where power relations, institutional and
socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of
disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel
how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality
and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the
various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during
and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides
and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies,
patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to
gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a
denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a
gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic
understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist
perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate
change. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers
working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender
Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.
This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate
disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that
prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.
Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of
women and girls where power relations, institutional and
socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of
disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel
how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality
and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the
various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during
and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides
and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies,
patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to
gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a
denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a
gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic
understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist
perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate
change. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers
working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender
Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.
Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have
made it increasingly varied and blurred what it means to be a
female or male in Asia today. Socio-economic and cultural patterns
in Asia intersect with one another and, in doing so, they translate
into power relations that create both possibilities and constraints
for women and men. By focusing on unequal access to political and
religious power, occupation and health facilities, as well as
different options when it comes to family life and sexuality, the
recognition of women and men are explored in this volume as
manifestations of ideas about femininity and masculinity.Readers
will find insightful and enriching contributions that consider how
gender relations in Asia - and indeed the very meaning of gender
itself - are affected by neo-liberalism, globalization and economic
growth; security in all of its meanings; multiculturalism, race and
class; family life, power and intergenerational support; religious
discourses and activism; and by male norms in politics.This title
highlights the complex ways in which the positions of women and men
are configured, recognized and contested in a rapidly transforming
region. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective on gender
inequalities.
One of the first anthropological studies based on extensive
fieldwork in Vietnam in decades, Embodying Morality examines
child-rearing in a rural Red River delta commune. It is a
sophisticated and intriguing exploration of the ways in which a
family system based on principles of male descent influences the
moral upbringing and learning of girls and boys. In Vietnamese
culture boys alone perpetuate the patrilineal family line; they
incorporate the past, present, and future morality, honor, and
reputation of their father's lineage. Within this patrilineal
universe, girls are viewed as blank sheets of paper and must
compensate for this deficiency by embodying tinh cam (sensitivity,
sense). Such attitudes play a significant role in the upbringing of
girls and boys and in how they learn to use and understand their
bodies. Helle Rydstroom offers fresh data - from audiotapes,
videotapes, textbooks, observations in the home and at school - for
identifying the transformation of local and educational
constructions of females, males, and morality into body styles of
girls, boys, women, and men. She highlights the extent to which
body performances in daily life produce, reproduce, and challenge
widespread northern Vietnamese ideals of femininity and
masculinity. The author's highly original application of
post-structuralist theory to Vietnam blends epistemology, practice,
body, and socialization theories with feminist analysis and relates
these to children's learning. By proposing the body as an analytic
category that can move feminist theory beyond the impasse of the
well-established opposition between sex and gender, Embodying
Morality demonstrates vividly how specific, cultural elaborations
of corporeality are learned, lived, and experienced in contemporary
rural Vietnam.
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