1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954082003321

Titolo

Surviving the academy : feminist perspectives / / edited by Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin-Prothero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : Falmer Press, 1998

ISBN

1-135-70148-2

0-203-28975-7

1-135-70149-0

1-280-02028-8

0-203-21013-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MalinaDanusia

Maslin-ProtheroSian

Disciplina

378.1/9822

Soggetti

Women college students - Great Britain - Social conditions

Women college teachers - Great Britain - Social conditions

Women - Education (Higher) - Great Britain

Feminism and education - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Women in Higher Education: The Gap between Corporate Rhetoric and the Reality of Experience; 2 From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work; 3 Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education; 4 Women, Social Work and Academia; 5 Mixing Motherhood and Academia-A Lethal Cocktail; 6 'All in a Day's Work': Gendered Care Work in Higher Education

7 Refusing to Be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration 8 Incorporation or Alienation? Resisting the Gendered Discourses of Academic Appraisal; 9 Creating Space: The Development of a Feminist Research Group; 10 Women and Collective Action: The Role of the Trade Union in Academic Life; 11 Who Goes There, Friend or Foe? Black Women, White Women and Friendships in



Academia; 12 Uneven Developments-Women's Studies in Higher Education in the 1990's; 13 Coming Clean: On Being Feminist Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text brings together writing and research on feminist experience in academia. It covers issues such as provision of care, maternalism in the academy and dynamics of interaction between women in higher education.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954244903321

Titolo

Interregionalism and international relations / / edited by Heiner Hanggi, Ralf Roloff and Jurgen Ruland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-134-23670-0

1-134-23671-9

1-280-29029-3

9786610290291

0-203-00832-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; ; 38

Altri autori (Persone)

HänggiHeiner

RoloffRalf <1964->

RülandJürgen <1953->

Disciplina

327.1

Soggetti

Interregionalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Interregionalism and International Relations; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I Introduction; 1 Interregionalism: a new phenomenon in internationalrelations; Part II The concept of interregional relations; 2 Interregionalism in theoretical perspective: state of the art; 3 Interregionalism as a multifaceted phenomenon: in searchof a typology; Part III The geography of interregional relations; 4 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC):transregionalism with a new



cause?

5 The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation(FEALAC): embryonic interregionalism6 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) andthe European Union: limited interregionalism; 7 The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process: beyond thetriadic political economy?; 8 The new Transatlantic interregionalism and the end of theAtlantic Alliance; 9 The new Transatlantic interregionalism: balanced orhegemonic?; 10 The European Union's relations with MERCOSUR: theissue of interregional trade liberalization; 11 Europe-Latin America (EU-LAC) relations: towardinterregional coalition-building?

12 The European Union and Southern Africa: interregionalismbetween vision and reality13 The Africa-Europe (Cairo summit) process: an expressionof "symbolic politics"; Part IV Comparative aspects and special cases; 14 Comparing interregionalism: the Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM); 15 Beyond transregionalism: monetary regionalism in East Asia; 16 "Imagined" interregionalism: Europe's relations with theAfrican, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP)

17 Hemispheric interregionalism: power, domestic interests,and ideas in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)18 Between regionalism and transregionalism: the IndianOcean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation(IOR-ARC); Part V Conclusion; 19 Interregionalism: an unfinished agenda; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated global order.This volume examines the structure of this phenomenon and the scholarly discourse it is generating. It takes stock of empirical facts and theoretical explanations, bringing together with clarity and concision the latest research on this key area. This essential new book:* traces the emergence of interregionalism and reviews the latest literature* provides a conceptual an