Acknowledgements

Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman

ISBN: 978-1-78635-038-1, eISBN: 978-1-78635-037-4

ISSN: 1529-2126

Publication date: 24 August 2016

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(2016), "Acknowledgements", Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000021029

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Copyright © 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited


I owe thanks to many people who have helped in the preparation and completion of this book. Firstly, I would like to thank Christina Irving at Emerald Books for the interest she showed in my paper on women’s activism at the British Sociological Association (BSA) conference and for the enthusiasm she has shown throughout. It was a pleasure to work with a number of colleagues at Emerald Books and I would like to express my gratitude to the series editors of Advances in Gender Research, Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal for their support and impeccable editing skills. I thank Emma Stevenson for her patience and professionalism throughout and for help in bringing the project to completion. I also thank the contributors of the chapters, without which this book would not exist and for their co-operation as I edited their work through to completion. The authors have shown inspiration and passion in their research on women’s status globally and their efforts will hopefully find expression in global moves towards improving women’s status. For the institutional support that I needed to complete the manuscript, I thank Professor Craig Barker and Cait Beaumont for last-minute research leave. Thanks to my other colleagues at London South Bank University, especially Elaine Bauer, Jaya Gajparia, Yvonne Robinson, Matthew Bond, Donatella Maraschin, Suzanne Scafe, Beverley Goring, Veronica Leacock and Ben Acquaah for their support in various aspects of university life. I am grateful to Professor Tracey Reynolds who invited me to present a paper at a symposium on higher education at Greenwich University, which helped me to fine tune my chapter on Bangladeshi women’s experiences of university. Tam Sanger did a great job proofreading the manuscript. Thanks must also go to my family. Special thanks as always to Adrian Budd for his love, humour, musical interludes and support throughout.

Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
Advances in Gender Research
Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Women’s Rights, Activism, Education and Empowerment
A Century of Egyptian Women’s Demands: The Four Waves of the Egyptian Feminist Movement
The Women’s Movement and Neo-Liberalism in Iran: Between Accommodation and Resistance
Bangladeshi Female Students in Higher Education: ‘Agentic Autonomy’ at the Race/Gender Trajectory
Women’s Education and Employment in Iran
Part II: Sexuality and Gender Security: India and Africa
Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012
Negotiating Gender Security: The Transnationalisation of Local Activist Discourses in Post-Conflict Burundi and Liberia
Gender Security/Sexuality in South Africa: ‘I am HIV-Positive. How Could You Do This to Me?’
Part III: Women’s Bodies, Nation and Performance
Agency, Resistance and Subversion: Voices in the Field
Re-mapping Women’s Testimonies into Networked Subjectivities: The Quipu Project
The Body Contours of Carnival: Mas-Playing and Race in Trinidad
Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema
Part IV: Having a Voice: Literature and Poetry
Migration, African Writing and the Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment
Suha
Woman with Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit) After Lotte Kramer’s ‘Boy with Orange (Out of Kosovo)’
About the Authors