Manifesto in defense of women's rights in Afghanistan
Women and religions
Lola Serrano Nice
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez [eds.]Ediciones Idea
Border and gender
María José Chivite de León
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez
María Eugenia Monzón (eds.) Plaza y Valdés Editores
Synopsis: A quintessential border territory, identity has been forged according to the mark, the boundary, or the profiling of one at the expense of the exclusion of the other, which often takes the form of the feminine. Of all identities, gender identity is one of the most paradigmatic in this sense, since in the consecration of the distinctions between masculine/feminine one can read all the paradoxes of identity pointed out by gender studies, women's studies, and feminism in recent decades. In the endeavor to question or dismantle the imposed boundaries on gender (legal, moral, physical, sexual, cultural or technological) that raise the barriers of the possible and the impossible in the configuration of bodies, subjectivities, discourses and desires, this volume aspires to create spaces for awareness, debate and reformulation on the practical and theoretical uses of that mobility –transgeneric, transborder, real or figurative– of the notion of gender, so profoundly influential in human, labor, political and cultural relations.
Visible or invisible
Dolores Serrano-Niza (ed.)
Plaza y Valdés Publishers
Synopsis: Women and migration form a firmly established conceptual pairing in our current society. This work seeks to analyze the new cultural framework emerging within what appears to be a different social order. This order encompasses a particular way of thinking and language that accommodates, among other things, unusual combinations of words, starting with "transnational," now accompanied by "feminism," "families," or "mothers." Related to this theme are other concepts: visibility and invisibility. The oversized and substantial visibility exemplified by the headscarves worn by Muslim women contrasts with the invisibility inherent in domestic work and the lack of rights that affects so many women.
Visible or invisible? Migrant women, cultures and societies is a collective work that draws on scientific texts narrated in an accessible and interdisciplinary style and processed with a reflective vocation, which try to answer the thematic axes drawn by its editor and divided in turn into two important blocks: one dedicated to Ethics, Sociology and Culture and the other to Gender and Islam.
Gender, knowledge and research
Inmaculada Perdomo Reyes
Ana Puy Rodríguez (eds.) Plaza y Valdés Editores
Synopsis: Critical analysis of science and technology from a gender perspective has led to questioning the models, practices, and structures of science, progressing from the identification of biases to proposing alternative courses of action aimed at promoting science and technology that are not only more equitable for women and men, but also more excellent and creative. Research equality policies, along with the recently developed new regulatory framework, pose challenges such as the mainstreaming of a gender perspective into research practice and technology design, curriculum design in higher education, personnel management in the selection, training, and promotion processes of scientific and technological institutions, and reflection on the model, directions, and objectives of science.
This volume provides the research and academic community, as well as those involved in the management of higher education and science policies at the highest level, with important keys for reflection and action in order to overcome the still present gender biases in this field, an unavoidable challenge if we intend to advance in the excellence and quality of the structures and processes themselves, and ultimately, the goals and achievements of university education, science and technology in the 21st century.
20 Canary Island Women Writers of the 20th Century
Yasmina Romero Morales
Alba Sabino Pérez (Eds.)
La Palma Ediciones, 2019
Synopsis: In the book “20 Canary Island Women Writers of the 20th Century,” the authors have selected the Canary Island women writers of the last century—poets, novelists, journalists, playwrights, and essayists—choosing twenty researchers specializing in women and literature. Their scholarly and insightful perspectives convey the most relevant aspects of these writers' lives and works. Through their writing, we learn about their styles, their affiliation with the various literary trends of the time—some modernist, others mystical, some centered on love for their mother or homeland, and still others that melancholic and painful longing for the land they had to leave.
Rosa Regàs
The European strategies for gender equality 2020-2025. A multidisciplinary study
Work directed by Professor Margarita Isabel Ramos Quintana. Published by IUEM in collaboration with the Canary Islands Institute for Equality.
Bomarzo Publishing House, 2020
Synopsis: This is a monograph dedicated to the European Strategy for Gender Equality 2020-2025, which was presented in Brussels on March 5, 2020, establishing a set of key actions to be implemented over the next five years and indicating that the Commission would include the gender equality perspective in all policy areas of the European Union.
The book includes a total of thirteen contributions, made from academia and the judicial field, which are linked to the contents of the Strategy, either by adhering to its development potential, or by using it as a vehicle to make approaches to the international sphere where the advances of equality are discussed and designed, or to bring them to the reality of our country.
Taken together, these are contributions that aim to highlight the value and explicit commitment of the European Strategy to gender equality and to encourage and stimulate the essential debate to successfully address the design of public policies on equality between men and women.