Gender and Practice: Knowledge, Policy, Organizations

Marcia Texler Segal · Kristy Kelly · Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos

nov. 2019 · Emerald Group Publishing

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In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace affirmed the need to address gender inequalities and foster gender integration. Ever since, the field of gender professionals has been growing, yet the experiences, insights and data gathered have not been systematically examined and incorporated into an accessible body of knowledge.
Working to address this, expert contributors demonstrate the depth and breadth of gender and practice. Including examples from Brazil, Cameroon, Ecuador, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, the USA, and Vietnam, as well as chapters that take a global perspective, the research here looks at issues and activities relating to infusing gender in knowledge management, training, and practice. Including subjects such as education, agricultural production, and tourism, this volume offers a variety of perspectives that will appeal to any researcher in gender.
Throughout the volume, expert practitioners situate their real-world experiences in the broader intersectional framework employed by their academic colleagues, offering policy makers, students, scholars, practitioners, and activists concrete examples of how and why gender is central to development.

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Marcia Texler Segal, Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series and of Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape. Past president of the North Central Sociological Association, she co-chairs the American Sociological Association Retirement Network. Kristy Kelly, PhD, is a sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is co-president of the Society of Gender Professionals. Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series. She is also a past president of the North Central Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society, a recipient of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award and chair of the SWS subcommittee on CEDAW.