Gender, Power, and Non-Governance : : Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State? /

Gender, Power, and Non-Governance : : Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State? / / ed. by Elizabeth Wirtz, Andria D. Timmer.

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of instit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Altman, Tess,
Crampton, Alexandra,
Devi Pandey, Annapurna,
Loy, Christopher,
Mishra Panda, Smita,
Reinke, Amanda J.,
Schuller, Mark,
Shirinian, Tamar,
Timmer, Andria D.,
Wirtz, Elizabeth,
Wundram Pimentel, Alejandra,
Zhan, Yang,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • INTRODUCTION Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
  • PART I Patterns of Reproduction. NGO and State Relations through a Gendered Lens
  • CHAPTER 1 NGOs and States of Aging NGOS as Male/Culture Advocates and as Female/Nature Caregivers
  • CHAPTER 2 Surviving the State. Strategic Essentialisms and the Complexities of Indigeneity among the Ainu of Northern Japan
  • CHAPTER 3 From “Warm and Fuzzy” to “Business Oriented” Practices The Politics of Exclusion and Masculinization of Alternative Justice in the United States
  • PART II Care Work as Feminized Work
  • Introduction CHAPTER 4 From Stranger to Neighbor Gendered Voluntarism as Feminist Caring Politics against Australia’s Hostile Borders
  • CHAPTER 5 Rural Women’s Self-Determination and Grassroots Resistance Movement. Reclaiming Land and Traditional Livelihoods in Odisha
  • CHAPTER 6 Neglectful Fathers and Mothers Who Mean Well Love and Hate of Hungarian Roma “Children”
  • CHAPTER 7 En/gendering Aixin. Philanthropy and Gendered Practice of Compassion in Postsocialist China
  • PART III Beyond the Binary Intersectionality and Queer Spaces in NGOs
  • CHAPTER 8 “Little Dear Mothers” Governing the “Republic of NGOs”
  • CHAPTER 9 Identity and the Construction of Trans Citizenship in Guatemala
  • CHAPTER 10 To Foresee the Unforeseeable. LGBT and Feminist Civil Society and the Question of Feminine Desire
  • CONCLUSION Queering the NGO/State Binary On Governing Stateless Peoples
  • Index

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