1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459403803321

Titolo

Gender equality, citizenship and human rights : controversies and challenges in China and the Nordic countries / / edited by Pauline Stoltz. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-99068-2

1-282-58684-X

9786612586842

0-203-85445-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in comparative politics ; ; 33

Altri autori (Persone)

StoltzPauline

Disciplina

305.420951

Soggetti

Women's rights - China

Women's rights - Scandinavia

Citizenship - China

Citizenship - Scandinavia

Human rights - China

Human rights - Scandinavia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Rights and responsibilities in a gendered world: Equality in/between China and the Nordic countries; Part I: Gender equality, citizenship and human rights; Introduction to Part I: Setting the stage; 1 'It is the people who serve the government': Interview with Ai Xiaoming; 2 'Today all the discussions and all the conflicts are about intersectionality': Interview with Tiina Rosenberg; 3 Advancing women's international human rights in China; 4 Gender, diversity and transnational citizenship

Part II: Controversies and challengesIntroduction to Part II: The cases; 5 Speaking out and space-making: The emergence of gay identities and communities in China; 6 Privileged irresponsibility, structural



responsibility and moral contradictions among employers in the EU domestic work sector; 7 The safety and health of female migrant workers in China; 8 Globalisation, diaspora politics and gender: Muslims in Sweden; 9 Gender equality and human rights: The significance of ICCPR in China; 10 National implementation of human rights: A threat to 'representative democracy'?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights. Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume contextualises feminist political theory in China and the Nordic countries and subsequently puts it into a

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144011803321

Titolo

Cell adhesion and human disease [[electronic resource] /] / [editors, Joan Marsh and Jamie A. Goode]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1995

ISBN

1-282-12245-2

9786612122453

0-470-51471-X

0-470-51472-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 189

Altri autori (Persone)

MarshJoan

GoodeJamie

Disciplina

611.01815

616.07

Soggetti

Cell adhesion

Cell adhesion molecules

Physiology, Pathological

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"Ciba Foundation"--Cover.

"Symposium on Cell adhesion and human disease, held at the Ciba Foundation, London 17-19 May 1994"--P. v.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CELL ADHESION AND HUMAN DISEASE; Contents; Participants; Chairman's introduction; P-selectin knockout: a mouse model for various human diseases; Creation and characterization of E-selectin- and VCAM-1 -deficient mice; Von Willebrand's disease and the mechanisms of platelet function; Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) II; Leukocyte and endothelial adhesion molecules in ischaemialreperfusion injuries; General discussion I; The integrin (VLA-4) as a therapeutic target; Adhesion molecules in cutaneous inflammation; Defective cell-cell adhesion in the epidermis

E-cadherin as an invasion suppressorThe role of CD44 splice variants in human metastatic cancer; Early metastasis of human solid tumours: expression of cell adhesion molecules; General discussion I I; Mechanisms fibronectin b i m p I icat ions of VCAM-1 and nding to or integr rational drug design integrin CY& : n function and; General d iscussio n II; Treatment of inflammatory diseases with a monoclonal antibody to intercellular adhesion molecule 1; Identification of endogenous protein-associated carbohydrate ligands for E-selectin; Final discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Experts in their respective fields present papers concerned with the range of human diseases caused by defective or abnormal functioning of cell adhesion molecules. Discusses new therapeutic approaches to these maladies.