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research should address relate to internal migration and South-South migration, the role of gender and other social identities … along North-North, South- North, and South-South migration flows. Portability of social security entitlements is the ability …, among their families. The paper uses a gender perspective where possible as part of an intersectional approach. We find that …
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, biographical and socio-historical time intersect, and for grasping the ways that temporality is materialized and mobilized through … chronological age, while simultaneously re-naturalizing gender in sexed bodies. …
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importance within these processes of women’s relationships with one another, both in terms of female subjectivity and agency … relationships. Our findings suggest revising the usual opposition between power as domination (power over) and power as agency … (power to). In many cases, women’s agency requires or implies their domination over other women. …
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A wide body of research explores gender differences in welfare outcomes, and their implications for economic … take differences in gender rights into account. Our research also suggests that cross-gender differences in well-being are … in the short-term - when there are changes/improvements in gender rights, in keeping with our more general findings on …
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The visibility of striptease (‘lap dancing’) as a workplace and site of consumption has grown significantly over the past 15 years in the UK. This article draws on the first large scale study of stripping work in the UK, exploring original empirical data to examine why women...
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-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics … justice system and society, depending on the construction of their crime, their gender and their sexuality. Symbiotic to … labelling women who kill in this way is the denial of their agency. That is to say that labelling these women denies the …
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Social protection policies regarding sex work in The Netherlands use ‘age’ as an instrument to create binaries between adults and young people. The concept ‘chronological age’ assumes that age is a static feature and supports the process of categorization; however, age is a socially...
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Drawing upon qualitative data gathered through fieldwork in three bail hostels, this paper outlines the role of substance use (illegal drugs, alcohol, prescribed medication and food) in the lives of women awaiting trial. Their use of substance is explored within the context of the multiple and...
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natural candidate for exploring gender issues in the evaluation of democratic policy. Not surprisingly, Sen has applied the … insights he developed from his study of social choice to the evaluation of gender inequality, in particular to women's well …-being in the context of the family. I focus on Sen's distinction between well-being and agency, and argue that from the …
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