Prelims
Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field
ISBN: 978-1-83867-384-0, eISBN: 978-1-83867-383-3
ISSN: 1529-2126
Publication date: 30 September 2019
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(2019), "Prelims", Demos, V., Segal, M.T. and Kelly, K. (Ed.) Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620190000027014
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Gender and Practice
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Advances in Gender Research
Series Editors: Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos
Recent Volumes:
Volume 11: | Sustainable Feminisms – Edited by Sonita Sarker, 2007 |
Volume 12: | Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2008 |
Volume 13: | Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2009 |
Volume 14: | Interactions and Intersections of Gendered Bodies at Work, at Home, and at Play – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, 2010 |
Volume 15: | Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities: Global, Transnational and Local Contexts – Edited by Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Marcia Texler Segal and Lin Tan, 2011 |
Volume 16: | Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow and Vasilikie Demos, 2012 |
Volume 17: | Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives – Edited by Marla H. Kohlman, Dana B. Krieg and Bette J. Dickerson, 2013 |
Volume 18A: | Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part A – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2013 |
Volume 18B: | Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part B – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2014 |
Volume 19: | Gender Transformation in the Academy – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2014 |
Volume 20: | At the Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge – Edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, 2015 |
Volume 21: | Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman – Edited by Shaminder Takhar, 2016 |
Volume 22: | Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2016 |
Volume 23: | Discourses of Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sanra L Bem – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, 2016 |
Volume 24: | Gender Panic, Gender Policy – Edited by Vasilikie Demos And Marcia Texler Segal |
Volume 25: | Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins – Edited by: Tiffany L. Taylor and Katrina R. Bloch |
Volume 26: | Gender and the Media: Women’s Places – Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos |
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Advances in Gender Research Volume 27
Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field
Vasilikie Demos
University of Minnesota Morris, USA
Marcia Texler Segal
Indiana University Southeast, USA
Kristy Kelly
Columbia University and Drexel University, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
Editorial Board | vii |
Volume Editor Biographies | ix |
Contributor Biographies | xi |
Gender and Practice: Introduction to Insights from the Field Marcia Texler Segal, Kristy Kelly and Vasilikie Demos |
xv |
PART I EDUCATION | |
Chapter 1 Feminist Leadership in The Academy: Exploring Everyday Praxis Kris De Welde, Marjukka Ollilainen and Catherine Richards Solomon |
3 |
Chapter 2 Gender and Education at Makerere University, Uganda Alice Merab Kagoda |
23 |
Chapter 3 Gender Audit as Research Method for Organizational Learning and Change in Higher Education A. S. CohenMiller and Jenifer L. Lewis |
39 |
Chapter 4 Why be Different? Teaching Development and Gendered Diversity Edwin S. Segal |
57 |
PART II TRAINING | |
Chapter 5 “Don’t Do Your Gender on Me!” Gender Mainstreaming and the Politics of Training in Vietnam Kristy Kelly |
71 |
Chapter 6 Transforming Data into Action – Implementing Gender Analyses in Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Interventions: An Experience from Cambodia Ramona Ridolfi, Ame Stormer and Gary Mundy |
89 |
Chapter 7 “Power in Numbers”: Marginalized Mothers Contesting Individualization through Grassroots Community Organizing Jennifer E. Cossyleon |
115 |
PART III PRACTICE | |
Chapter 8 Treating Beyond Ailment: Fistula and Gender Vulnerabilities in Remote Tanzania Bankole Allibay |
131 |
Chapter 9 The Benefits of Long-term Treatment for Adult Victims of Sex Trafficking Jessica M. Grosholz, Sandra S. Stone, Alexandra M. Fleck and Fawn T. Ngo |
149 |
Chapter 10 Analyzing the Importance of Funding for Gender Focused Empowerment Programs Soma Chaudhuri and Merry Morash |
167 |
Chapter 11 Restructuring Women’s Leadership in Climate Solutions: Analyzing The W+™ Standard Peggy Spitzer Christoff and Jamie M. Sommer |
183 |
Chapter 12 Being a Feminist Applied Sociologist in a Non-profit Testing and Research Organization: Encouraging Fairness in Measurement and Management Practices Barbara Kirsh |
199 |
Index | 219 |
Editorial Board
Miriam Adelman
Universidade Federal do
Paraná, Brazil
Franca Bimbi
Universita Degli Studi di
Padova, Italy
Max Greenberg
Boston University
USA
Marla Kohlman
Kenyon College, USA
Chika Shinohara
Momoyama Gakuin University
(St Andrew’s University), Japan
Tiffany Taylor
Kent State University, USA
Volume Editor Biographies
Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA, is Co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series. She is also a Past President of the North Central Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society, a Recipient of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award, and Chair of the SWS subcommittee on CEDAW.
Marcia Texler Segal, Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA, is Co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape. She is a Past President of the North Central Sociological Association and also co-chairs the American Sociological Association Retirement Network.
Kristy Kelly, Ph.D., is a Sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms, and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is Co-President of the Society of Gender Professionals.
Contributor Biographies
Bankole S. Allibay, Ph.D., is a Social Performance Expert, an international ESG Practitioner–Researcher and Managing Consultant, TDL – www.tdltd.org. He manages environmental and social risks on large infrastructure and development projects, looking specifically at project-induced fragility, conflict, and vulnerabilities. His work spans across Africa and other emerging economies.
Soma Chaudhuri, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, USA. Her research focuses on gender, development, social movements, and violence against women. She is currently researching the impact of empowerment programs in India.
Peggy (Peg) Spitzer Christoff is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, USA. Her research, in the field of International Relations, evaluates Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs) relating to women’s roles in climate change adaptation in Asia. Since 2017, she has co-authored four book chapters and two articles on this topic.
Anna S. CohenMiller, Ph.D., is qualitative research methodologist who examines issues of social justice and equity in education. She is Founder of the Motherscholar Project and both Co-Founding Director of the Consortium of Gender Scholars and Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education (Kazakhstan).
Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University’s Poverty and Inequality Research Lab in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Some of her recently published articles appear in Socius, City & Community and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Kris De Welde, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the College of Charleston, USA. Her research focuses on intersectional inequalities in higher education, as well as the kinds of organizational change and bold leadership that is required for a more just postsecondary educational system.
Alexandra M. Fleck is a Graduate Student in criminal justice at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, Florida. Her areas of interest include crimes against women, sexual assault, stalking, and serial killers.
Jessica M. Grosholz is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include prisoner reentry and recidivism, health and crime, and community-based program evaluation. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Deviant Behavior.
Alice Merab Kagoda, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at Makerere University, School of Education, Uganda. Her interest is in the development of the education of the girl child especially where access to quality education is a privilege rather than a right. Her recent research concerns gender, teacher education, and teaching geography in secondary schools of Uganda.
Kristy Kelly, Ph.D., is a Sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms, and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is Co-President of the Society of Gender Professionals.
Barbara Kirsh, Ph.D., is an Applied Sociologist who retired after a 47-year career at Educational Testing Service, a private non-profit research and assessment company based in Princeton, NJ, USA. She participated in child development projects in the research department and, for the substantial part of her career, worked in progressively responsible corporate positions focused on fairness and quality in assessments.
Jenifer L. Lewis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), where she was a member of the first cohort of faculty to start the university. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies. Her research examines women in leadership. She is Co-Founding Director of the Consortium of Gender Scholars (Kazakhstan).
Merry Morash, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA. Her research has focused on violence against women who reside in the United States after immigrating from Mexico, India, and Vietnam. She also studies the effects of probation and parole supervision on women.
Gary Mundy is the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser at Helen Keller International, Asia-Pacific Region. He has spent the past 15 years supporting the evaluation of a range of public health development programs, mainly in Asia and Africa. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Fawn T. Ngo is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include criminological theory, interpersonal violence, cybercrime, and predictive analytic techniques. Her recent articles appear in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.
Marjukka Ollilainen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Weber State University, USA. Her research examines academia as a workplace, academic motherhood, and faculty parental leave policies and work/life issues in the United States and internationally.
Ramona Ridolfi is a Regional Gender Advisor at Helen Keller International, Asia-Pacific Region. Based in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), she provides strategic and programmatic support on gender equality and social inclusion to HKI’s programs in South and South East Asia. Her research interests include gender transformative approaches and their impact on women’s empowerment and improved nutrition and health.
Edwin S. Segal, Professor Emeritus for Anthropology, University of Louisville, KY, USA. His interests include southern and eastern Africa, gender, ethnicity, and development with a focus on the intersection of gender and ethnicity, especially in circumstances of socio-cultural changes. Recent publications appear in Advances in Gender Research, Volume 21; Angle Orthodontist, Volume 84; Sex and Society, Marshall Cavendish 2009; and Heritage, Apprentice House Publishing, 2017.
Catherine Richards Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University, USA. She studies how societal inequalities and occupational norms shape work/family management. She wrote The Lives of Stay-at-Home Fathers: Masculinity, Carework, and Fatherhood in the United States and has widely published on faculty’s work/life issues.
Jamie M. Sommer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA, with interests in environmental sociology, development, climate change, and mixed-methods research. Her research concerns how governance impacts environmental and development outcomes. Her recent articles appear in Sociological Inquiry, Sociology of Development, Journal of Development Studies, and Environmental Sociology.
Sandra S. Stone is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice, gangs, domestic violence, women and crime, program evaluation, and public policy. Her research has appeared in Violence and Victims, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Gang Research.
Ame Stormer, Ph.D., is Helen Keller’s Senior Technical Advisor for the Asia Pacific Region. Based in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), she provides strategic, programmatic, monitoring and evaluation guidance and support to programs in South and Southeast Asia. Her research interests involve nutrition, maternal and child health, and food security and resilience.
- Prelims
- Gender and Practice: Introduction to Insights from the Field
- Part I: Education
- Chapter 1: Feminist Leadership in the Academy: Exploring Everyday Praxis
- Chapter 2: Gender and Education at Makerere University, Uganda
- Chapter 3: Gender Audit as Research Method for Organizational Learning and Change in Higher Education
- Chapter 4: Why Be Different? Teaching Development and Gendered Diversity
- Part II: Training
- Chapter 5: “Don’t Do Your Gender on Me!” Gender Mainstreaming and the Politics of Training in Vietnam
- Chapter 6: Transforming Data into Action – Implementing Gender Analyses in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions: An Experience from Cambodia
- Chapter 7: “Power in Numbers”: Marginalized Mothers Contesting Individualization Through Grassroots Community Organizing
- Part III: Practice
- Chapter 8: Treating Beyond Ailment: Fistula and Gender Vulnerabilities in Remote Tanzania
- Chapter 9: The Benefits of Long-Term Treatment for Adult Victims of Sex Trafficking
- Chapter 10: Analyzing the Importance of Funding for Gender Focused Empowerment Programs
- Chapter 11: Restructuring Women’s Leadership in Climate Solutions: Analyzing the W+™ Standard
- Chapter 12: Being a Feminist Applied Sociologist in a Non-Profit Testing and Research Organization: Encouraging Fairness in Measurement and Management Practices
- Index