Bodies in Resistance : Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

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Label

Bodies in Resistance : Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Title remainder

Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Statement of responsibility

edited by Wendy Harcourt

Creator

• Harcourt, Wendy

Editor

• Harcourt, Wendy

Subject

• Economic development
• Feminism
• Feminist theory
• Gender Studies
• Gender expression
• Gender identity
• Human body -- Social aspects
• Political Science and International Relations
• Political Sociology
• Political Theory
• Political science
• Political sociology
• Political theory
• Sex (Psychology)
• Social change
• Sociology
• Sociology of the Body
• Development and Social Change

Language

eng

Summary

As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change. In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples’ rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe.--

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• Gender, Development and Social Change
• Springer eBooks, Political Science and International Studies Collection

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Springer eBooks
• Gender, Development and Social Change