Gender and the city in historical perspective : an introduction
Gender and the City
Community ; Gender ; Methodology ; Research ; Social geography ; Town ; Woman
An introduction to the four papers on gender and the city. Guest editor concedes that the theme is not original, but maintains that she wanted to offer a forum where gender scholars could refine methodologies and add to the empirical record
Gender geography in South Africa : facing challenges and exploring opportunities
Gender ; Gender difference ; Research ; Social geography ; South Africa ; Woman
The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges and opportunities facing gender geography and the specific concerns relating to the need for gender geography in South Africa. The issues of interest are : Why is it important to engender
geography thinking and research in South Africa ? What are the current trends and issues of interest in gender geography in South Africa ? - (AJC)
A pécsi kistérség nonprofit szférájának gender alapú elemzése
Gender ; Hungary ; Social geography
The gender based organisations of the Nuts 4 region of Pécs was analysed, with a special reference to non-profit organisations, responsible for the provision of equal chance for the social genders, and it was revealed how dominant
The AA. argue that feminist political ecology must theorize a more complex and messier notion of gender that accounts for race , racialization and racism more explicitly. Building on the work of feminist geography and critical race scholarship
, the AA. argue for a postcolonial intersectional analysis in f.p.e., putting this theory to work in an analysis of race, gender and whiteness in Honduras. They demonstrate how theorizing race and gender as mutually constituted richly complicates
Gender and environment : critical tradition and new challenges. A discussion
Environment ; Environmental justice ; Feminism ; Gender ; Human ecology ; Man-environment relations ; Political ecology ; Social theory
The gender-environment relations have symbolic and material consequences in how nature is understood, in how environmental resources and responsibilities are managed and distributed and in gendered power dynamics that play out in the day-to-day
lives of people around the world. Processes of differentiation to which gender is central are place bound and are related to the environments being produced.
Global cities, transnational flows and gender dimensions, the view from Singapore
Flow ; Gender ; Globalization ; International migration ; Singapore ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; World city
The paper focuses on Singapore, an aspiring global city, to investigate how global city spaces are transgressed by transnational migrants who may challenge, inflect or reaffirm the gendered spatial boundaries with which the city is scripted
. It focuses on three groups of women to unmask the gendering at work as well as the gendered implications of transnationalism in Singapore's state-led drive to global city status.
The intersections of Irishness and gender in Britain are explored. Irishness has two distinct dimensions, each gendered in ways reflecting the colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland. One is the roots of the collectivity, mediated through
An interview study of vendors at Calle Ipiales, Quito's largest retail market, shows that gender differences are significant in the conditions of the enterprise. Female vendors are more restricted than their male counterparts because of their double
Gender and critical geopolitics: reading security discourse in the new world disorder
The A. argues that investigating the gendered assumptions in the study of international relations and forign policy-making, in addition to more explicitly geopolitical reasoning, shows how political spatialisations render women vulnerable.
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Gender ; Gender difference ; Social inequality
This paper engages with current debates concerning reflexive research processes. It applies a relational concept of difference - recently envisaged as betweenness - to highlight how gender and class difference can be used to reflect other
Genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space
The A. addresses the relations between gender and sexuality in violence known as gaybashing, and argues that a perceived transgression of normative sex-gender relations motivates most aggressive incidents. The implications for this insight
for the individuals who live outside normative relations (transgenders) are considered. The ways in which the public space is defined through gender are examined. There is also an analysis of antiviolence activism in the city of Montréal.