Pioneering feminist anthropology in Egypt [[electronic resource] ] : selected writings from Cynthia Nelson / / edited by Martina Rieker ; contributions by Lila Abu-Lughod, Judith E. Tucker |
Autore | Nelson Cynthia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Abu-LughodLila
RiekerMartina TuckerJudith E |
Collana | Cairo papers in social science |
Soggetto topico |
Feminism - Egypt
Feminist anthropology - Egypt Women - Middle East |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-936190-43-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459443703321 |
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Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2007 | ||
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Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban / / edited by Linda Peake and Martina Rieker |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PeakeLinda <1956->
RiekerMartina |
Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Urban women Feminism Urban policy Sociology, Urban |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-74344-8
0-203-56843-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban; Urban feminist research: "geographies" of knowledge production; The problems and possibilities of feminism; Why the urban, why now?; Feminist geographical imaginaries; Going forward; Acknowledgements; 2. Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: exploring the gender dimensions; Introduction; Urban neoliberalism examined; Entrepreneurial cities; Working in the new urban economy; Governance and governmentality
Urban strugglesCounter-topographies; Two case studies; Freedom and fear: gender ideology and neoliberalism in Toronto's condominium boom; Economic violence, social violence and the production of fear in Kingston, Jamaica; The challenge of building counter-topographies; 3. Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics; Introduction; The invisible flâneur and the public woman; Post-colonial feminist cities; From feminicidio to juvenicidio: or the failure of modernity; 4. Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and neighbouring; Everyday practices in urban neighbourhoods Care deficits in AthensWho cares? Geographies of elder care in Athens; Caring across borders; Neighbouring practices; Negotiating gender; 5. New mobile women in South China: narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta; Contextualizing urban development in the south: the Pearl River Delta and Guangzhou; Miracle of the Pearl River Delta: Zhang Yin's success story; Lala's promotion vs. Guangzhou's demotion? The development of an urban professional female subject in an ordinary city; Conclusion 6. Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and SitapurExperience as representation: spatial categories, performativity, and storytelling through theater; Richa's story/choosing stages; Sofi's story/invited stages; The process; Grounded reflections; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 7. Unsettling narratives: global households, urban life and a politics of possibility; Introduction; Narrative 1: divided cities and social polarisation; Narrative 2: failure of global households from another perspective Narrative 3: new urbanism and new forms of intimacyWorking within the interpretive triangle; Political possibility; 8. Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: de-essentialising difference; Introduction; Comparison and the concrete other; Women as victims or heroines: poverty and household headship; Informality, mobility and property titles; Conclusion; 9. Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy: regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region; Introduction; Socio-spatial imaginaries through a feminist lens; The neoliberalized urban region Challenging a dominant paradigm: growth in the Toronto region |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465079903321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban / / edited by Linda Peake and Martina Rieker |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PeakeLinda <1956->
RiekerMartina |
Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Urban women Feminism Urban policy Sociology, Urban |
ISBN |
1-136-74351-0
1-136-74344-8 0-203-56843-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban; Urban feminist research: "geographies" of knowledge production; The problems and possibilities of feminism; Why the urban, why now?; Feminist geographical imaginaries; Going forward; Acknowledgements; 2. Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: exploring the gender dimensions; Introduction; Urban neoliberalism examined; Entrepreneurial cities; Working in the new urban economy; Governance and governmentality
Urban strugglesCounter-topographies; Two case studies; Freedom and fear: gender ideology and neoliberalism in Toronto's condominium boom; Economic violence, social violence and the production of fear in Kingston, Jamaica; The challenge of building counter-topographies; 3. Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics; Introduction; The invisible flâneur and the public woman; Post-colonial feminist cities; From feminicidio to juvenicidio: or the failure of modernity; 4. Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and neighbouring; Everyday practices in urban neighbourhoods Care deficits in Athens -- Who cares? Geographies of elder care in Athens; Caring across borders; Neighbouring practices; Negotiating gender; 5. New mobile women in South China: narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta; Contextualizing urban development in the south: the Pearl River Delta and Guangzhou; Miracle of the Pearl River Delta: Zhang Yin's success story; Lala's promotion vs. Guangzhou's demotion? The development of an urban professional female subject in an ordinary city; Conclusion 6. Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur -- Experience as representation: spatial categories, performativity, and storytelling through theater; Richa's story/choosing stages; Sofi's story/invited stages; The process; Grounded reflections; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 7. Unsettling narratives: global households, urban life and a politics of possibility; Introduction; Narrative 1: divided cities and social polarisation; Narrative 2: failure of global households from another perspective Narrative 3: new urbanism and new forms of intimacyWorking within the interpretive triangle; Political possibility; 8. Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: de-essentialising difference; Introduction; Comparison and the concrete other; Women as victims or heroines: poverty and household headship; Informality, mobility and property titles; Conclusion; 9. Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy: regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region; Introduction; Socio-spatial imaginaries through a feminist lens; The neoliberalized urban region Challenging a dominant paradigm: growth in the Toronto region |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792182003321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban / / edited by Linda Peake and Martina Rieker |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon [England], : Routledge, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PeakeLinda <1956->
RiekerMartina |
Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Urban women Feminism Urban policy Sociology, Urban |
ISBN |
1-136-74351-0
1-136-74344-8 0-203-56843-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban; Urban feminist research: "geographies" of knowledge production; The problems and possibilities of feminism; Why the urban, why now?; Feminist geographical imaginaries; Going forward; Acknowledgements; 2. Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: exploring the gender dimensions; Introduction; Urban neoliberalism examined; Entrepreneurial cities; Working in the new urban economy; Governance and governmentality
Urban strugglesCounter-topographies; Two case studies; Freedom and fear: gender ideology and neoliberalism in Toronto's condominium boom; Economic violence, social violence and the production of fear in Kingston, Jamaica; The challenge of building counter-topographies; 3. Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics; Introduction; The invisible flâneur and the public woman; Post-colonial feminist cities; From feminicidio to juvenicidio: or the failure of modernity; 4. Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and neighbouring; Everyday practices in urban neighbourhoods Care deficits in Athens -- Who cares? Geographies of elder care in Athens; Caring across borders; Neighbouring practices; Negotiating gender; 5. New mobile women in South China: narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta; Contextualizing urban development in the south: the Pearl River Delta and Guangzhou; Miracle of the Pearl River Delta: Zhang Yin's success story; Lala's promotion vs. Guangzhou's demotion? The development of an urban professional female subject in an ordinary city; Conclusion 6. Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur -- Experience as representation: spatial categories, performativity, and storytelling through theater; Richa's story/choosing stages; Sofi's story/invited stages; The process; Grounded reflections; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 7. Unsettling narratives: global households, urban life and a politics of possibility; Introduction; Narrative 1: divided cities and social polarisation; Narrative 2: failure of global households from another perspective Narrative 3: new urbanism and new forms of intimacyWorking within the interpretive triangle; Political possibility; 8. Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: de-essentialising difference; Introduction; Comparison and the concrete other; Women as victims or heroines: poverty and household headship; Informality, mobility and property titles; Conclusion; 9. Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy: regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region; Introduction; Socio-spatial imaginaries through a feminist lens; The neoliberalized urban region Challenging a dominant paradigm: growth in the Toronto region |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821924403321 |
Abingdon [England], : Routledge, 2013 | ||
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