Dedication

Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman

ISBN: 978-1-78635-038-1, eISBN: 978-1-78635-037-4

ISSN: 1529-2126

Publication date: 24 August 2016

Citation

(2016), "Dedication", Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. v. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000021028

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited


For my mother, Avtar Kaur Takhar, a woman of courage

Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
Advances in Gender Research
Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Women’s Rights, Activism, Education and Empowerment
A Century of Egyptian Women’s Demands: The Four Waves of the Egyptian Feminist Movement
The Women’s Movement and Neo-Liberalism in Iran: Between Accommodation and Resistance
Bangladeshi Female Students in Higher Education: ‘Agentic Autonomy’ at the Race/Gender Trajectory
Women’s Education and Employment in Iran
Part II: Sexuality and Gender Security: India and Africa
Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012
Negotiating Gender Security: The Transnationalisation of Local Activist Discourses in Post-Conflict Burundi and Liberia
Gender Security/Sexuality in South Africa: ‘I am HIV-Positive. How Could You Do This to Me?’
Part III: Women’s Bodies, Nation and Performance
Agency, Resistance and Subversion: Voices in the Field
Re-mapping Women’s Testimonies into Networked Subjectivities: The Quipu Project
The Body Contours of Carnival: Mas-Playing and Race in Trinidad
Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema
Part IV: Having a Voice: Literature and Poetry
Migration, African Writing and the Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment
Suha
Woman with Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit) After Lotte Kramer’s ‘Boy with Orange (Out of Kosovo)’
About the Authors