Feminist Activists on Brexit

Feminist Activists on Brexit
Author: Sue Cohen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800434200

Across an ever-changing political landscape, and in the midst of Brexit developments, this edited collection draws our attention to women's participation in transformative democratic processes, and captures how UK women were made 'other' in the political environment created by Brexit.

Feminist Activists on Brexit

Feminist Activists on Brexit
Author: Sue Cohen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800434227

Across an ever-changing political landscape, and in the midst of Brexit developments, this edited collection draws our attention to women's participation in transformative democratic processes, and captures how UK women were made 'other' in the political environment created by Brexit.

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit
Author: Moira Dustin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030031225

This collection examines the opportunities and challenges, rights and wrongs, and prospects and risks of Brexit from the perspectives of gender and sexuality. While much has been written about Brexit from legal, political, social and economic perspectives, there has been little analysis of the effects of Brexit on women and gender/sexual minorities who have historically been marginalised and whose voices have been less audible in political debates – both nationally and at the European level. The collection explores how Brexit might change the equality, human rights and social justice landscape, but from the viewpoint of women and gender/sexual minorities. The contributions gathered in it demonstrate the variety of ways that Brexit will make a difference to the lives of women and individuals marginalised because of gender or sexual identity.

Minority Women and Austerity

Minority Women and Austerity
Author: Bassel, Leah
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447327136

As austerity measures continue throughout Europe, its effects are felt differently by different groups of citizens. This book looks at how minority women in France and Britain have coped with austerity. Crucially, it casts them not as passive victims, but as active agents finding ways to survive, using their race, class, gender, and legal status as resources for collective action at a moment when left-wing politics and non-governmental organizations have failed them. Making use of in-depth case studies, Minority Women and Austerity offers an unprecedented look at the changing relationship among the state, the market, and civil society, and the opportunities and dilemmas that creates for minority women.

To Exist is to Resist

To Exist is to Resist
Author: Akwugo Emejulu
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Ethnic studies
ISBN: 9780745339481

In a divided continent, women of colour come together to make a Black Europe visible.

Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism

Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism
Author: YULIA. MALETA
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9781032089683

This book addresses hegemonic ruling class masculinity and emphasized femininity within renewables organisational governance, and critiques Anglo-Celtic male privilege, as a barrier to women's leadership participation. Primarily using the Australian socio-political context, the author considers the patriarchal control of organisations and renewables governance, and argues that women-led emphasized femininity-resistance strategies can challenge the hegemonic status of ruling elites to create a leadership that is less power oriented, more collaborative and open to change. Utilising detailed interviews with Australian women environmentalists, together with feminist, sociological and social movement theory, whilst considering the historic context of Red Vienna and contemporary political challenges (Brexit, Monarchism etc.), it puts forward an innovative policy framework for an Australian Bill of Rights Act and republican constitutional change. Written for academics, activists and policymakers alike, this book offers a unique insight into women's inequity within patriarchal institutionalist governance. It will be engaging and inspiring reading for feminist and environmentalist activists and practitioners, in addition to professional associations focussing on gender, justice and environmental change. Academics and postgraduates in Gender Studies, Ecofeminism, Sociology and Organisational Studies will also find the book of key interest in its interdisciplinary discussions of Sustainable Scientific-Technological Development Initiatives (SSTDI) and feminism in an Australian political context.

Red Ellen

Red Ellen
Author: Laura Beers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2016-10-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674971523

In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was “the only girl who talks in school debates.” By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain’s Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the first female delegates to the United Nations, and she played a central role in Britain’s postwar Labour government. In Laura Beers’s account of Wilkinson’s remarkable life, we have a richly detailed portrait of a time when Left-leaning British men and women from a range of backgrounds sought to reshape domestic, imperial, and international affairs. Wilkinson is best remembered as the leader of the Jarrow Crusade, the 300-mile march of two hundred unemployed shipwrights and steelworkers to petition the British government for assistance. But this was just one small part of Red Ellen’s larger transnational fight for social justice. She was involved in a range of campaigns, from the quest for official recognition of the Spanish Republican government, to the fight for Indian independence, to the effort to smuggle Jewish refugees out of Germany. During Wilkinson’s lifetime, many British radicals viewed themselves as members of an international socialist community, and some, like her, became involved in socialist, feminist, and pacifist movements that spanned the globe. By focusing on the extent to which Wilkinson’s activism transcended Britain’s borders, Red Ellen adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century.

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Author: Roman Kuhar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786600013

This edited collection offers a transnational and comparative approach to understanding anti-gender mobilizations in Europe.

Brexitland

Brexitland
Author: Maria Sobolewska
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108611826

Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union, culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in which we live.