Marina Svensson
Professor
Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Editor
- Pauline Stoltz
- Marina Svensson
- Sun Zhongxin
- Qi Wang
Summary, in English
This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.
Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume contextualises feminist political theory in China and the Nordic countries and subsequently puts it into a global perspective. It tackles a complex set of tensions across a dense and shifting landscape and addresses issues including labour, health, democracy, homosexuality, migration and racism.
By cutting across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, gender studies, human rights and also those interested in Scandinavian and Asian politics.
Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume contextualises feminist political theory in China and the Nordic countries and subsequently puts it into a global perspective. It tackles a complex set of tensions across a dense and shifting landscape and addresses issues including labour, health, democracy, homosexuality, migration and racism.
By cutting across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, gender studies, human rights and also those interested in Scandinavian and Asian politics.
Department/s
- Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Publication/Series
Routledge research in comparative politics
Volume
32
Document type
Book
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Other Social Sciences
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 0-415-56176-0