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Equality building in Europe: praxis, paradoxes, and the transformative potential of gender+ training (2019)
Thesis
Enderstein, A.-M. (2019). Equality building in Europe: praxis, paradoxes, and the transformative potential of gender+ training. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222940

The last six decades have seen measurable progress in equality policies and projects in Europe, but as existing research demonstrates, this work is characterised by paradoxes and faces significant opposition in the current sociopolitical environment.... Read More about Equality building in Europe: praxis, paradoxes, and the transformative potential of gender+ training.

Modern welfare and traditions of reciprocity : Parahita organizations and emergent ecologies of redistribution in rural Myanmar (2018)
Thesis
Griffiths, M. P. (2018). Modern welfare and traditions of reciprocity : Parahita organizations and emergent ecologies of redistribution in rural Myanmar. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221398

Recent discourse on citizenship and identity in Myanmar has been dominated by practices of othering and exclusion, often amplifying historically constructed notions of ethnicity and belonging. Notions of citizenship, both in terms of the right to bel... Read More about Modern welfare and traditions of reciprocity : Parahita organizations and emergent ecologies of redistribution in rural Myanmar.

Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh (2018)
Journal Article
Choudhury, T., & Clisby, S. (2018). Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Studies on Home and Community Science, 11(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/09737189.2017.1420406

Globally, understandings and experiences of masculinity have drawn significant attention and critique, generating lively academic debate and scholarship over the past several decades. However to date there has been relatively little such debate perta... Read More about Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Clisby, S. (2018). Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis. Studies on Home and Community Science, 11(2), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/09737189.2017.1420382

In this practical methodological piece I provide an illustration of what form gender analysis training might take. This is an example of training that I have devised and employed in various ways and formats in my work with a range of NGOs and non-sta... Read More about Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis.

Caught between the orientalist–occidentalist polemic: gender mainstreaming as feminist transformation or neocolonial subversion? (2017)
Journal Article
Clisby, S., & Enderstein, A.-M. (2017). Caught between the orientalist–occidentalist polemic: gender mainstreaming as feminist transformation or neocolonial subversion?. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 19(2), 231-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2016.1258262

Here we provide a critical reading of gender mainstreaming as a potential emancipatory force that has been co-opted within Orientalist-Occidentalist polemics. This remains a critical period in the “mainstreaming” debate, where feminist reappropriatio... Read More about Caught between the orientalist–occidentalist polemic: gender mainstreaming as feminist transformation or neocolonial subversion?.

Gendering happiness and its discontents (2017)
Journal Article
Clisby, S. (2017). Gendering happiness and its discontents. Journal of gender studies, 26(1), 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1273362

Providing an introductory framework to the Special Issue: Gendering Happiness: the power of pleasure, here I consider the highly gendered and political contexts of happiness, pleasure, desire, and the tyrannies of its converse discontents. As this sp... Read More about Gendering happiness and its discontents.

Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies (2016)
Journal Article
Clisby, S., & Lennon, K. (2016). Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies. Journal of gender studies,

In this introductory article we provide a contextual theoretical framework of feminist debates and movements through the lens of the Journal of Gender Studies over the course of the past quarter of a century. Attention to the processes by which we be... Read More about Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies.

Commercialization of agriculture in Nigeria : a gender analysis of cash crop production in Yekemi, Osun State (2015)
Thesis
Afolabi, M. M. (2015). Commercialization of agriculture in Nigeria : a gender analysis of cash crop production in Yekemi, Osun State. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219061

The commercialization of agriculture is seen as a cornerstone of processes of development and modernisation and the incorporation of rural farmers into this economy shows their importance as a major pillar in the economy. In Nigeria, cash crop produc... Read More about Commercialization of agriculture in Nigeria : a gender analysis of cash crop production in Yekemi, Osun State.

Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse (2014)
Book
Clisby, S., & Holdsworth, J. (2014). Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse. Policy Press

© Policy Press 2014. Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women’s mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older... Read More about Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse.

Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana (2011)
Thesis
Bamora, F. N. (2011). Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211899

This thesis examines some of the issues surrounding extensive gender inequalities operating within the school, family and the wider society which affect girls’ rights to education. It reveals that institutional culture within the home, community and... Read More about Gender inequality in secondary education in Ghana.

"Aquela loirinha, baixinha, não sabe dançar..." : an ethnographic account of the accomodation [i.e. accommodation] of whiteness within the discourse and practice of the Brazilian female sexual subject in Florianópolis, Brazil. (2011)
Thesis
Turner, J. T. M. (2011). "Aquela loirinha, baixinha, não sabe dançar..." : an ethnographic account of the accomodation [i.e. accommodation] of whiteness within the discourse and practice of the Brazilian female sexual subject in Florianópolis, Brazil. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211475

Women's employment in garment factories in Bangladesh : emancipation or exploitation? (2009)
Thesis
Rahman, M. A. (2009). Women's employment in garment factories in Bangladesh : emancipation or exploitation?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209844

Women's participation in export-oriented industries has been one of the most dominant features in many developing countries since the 1970s. Employment in waged jobs has often been viewed as a means of women's integration into development processes.... Read More about Women's employment in garment factories in Bangladesh : emancipation or exploitation?.

Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Clisby, S. (2009). Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica. Landscape research, 34(2), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426390802390517

This paper draws on Bourdieu's notion of 'the field', a contested domain of relations of power, as a way to think about the social relations of environmentalism. More specifically, we suggest that talk about the environment and its protection is an i... Read More about Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica.

Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica (2008)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Clisby, S. (2008). Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica. Nature and Culture, 3(1), 63 - 81. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2008.030105

Cosmopolitans are frequently characterized as living and perceiving the world and their environment from a distance. Drawing on ethnographic work among a small group of Western migrants in Costa Rica, we complicate this portrayal in a number of ways.... Read More about Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica.

A critique of participatory development in Pakistan (2005)
Thesis
Ali, J. (2005). A critique of participatory development in Pakistan. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212637

This study, a critical analysis of participatory development, was empirically conducted within a participatory development NGO in Pakistan, namely the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP). It critically analysed participatory development in relation... Read More about A critique of participatory development in Pakistan.