Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Hartmann Betsy)(Paperback)

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Hartmann Betsy)(Paperback)

With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing

On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change (Sasser Jade S.)(Paperback)

A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development organizations in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is 'back'--and that the only way to avoid

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Luna Zakiya)(Paperback)

State of World Population 2017: Worlds Apart - Reproductive Health and Rights in an Age of Inequality (United Nations Publications)(Paperback)

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (Silliman Jael)(Paperback)

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive

Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools (Bagley Joseph)(Paperback)

In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (Ford Tanisha C.)(Paperback)

From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against

What's Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (D'Souza Radha)(Paperback)

Rights occupy a strange position in global politics. On the one hand, they're used by business and governments as a justification for globalization--if the spread of corporate capitalism also helps lead to improvements in human rights, then globalization must be good, right? At the same time,

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Rodrik Dani)(Paperback)

In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat

Empty Planet - The Shock of Global Population Decline (Bricker Darrell)(Paperback / softback)

Empty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon

Mary and the Wrongs of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their independence and intellectual development. Strongly

Global Environmental Politics (Chasek Pamela S.)(Paperback)

Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for thirty years. The eighth edition continues this practice by covering critical new developments in global environmental politics and

Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Orr Judith)(Paperback)

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act, but the struggle for abortion rights continues. Combining analysis of media coverage, statistics and social attitudes with accounts of women's experiences, Judith Orr argues that women should be able to control their fertility without

Just Get on the Pill, 4: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (Littlejohn Krystale E.)(Paperback)

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention. The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so

A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Weitz Eric D.)(Paperback)

A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights--a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights

The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (Boyd David R.)(Paperback)

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining

Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century (Debenham Clare)(Paperback)

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan (Takeuchi-Demirci Aiko)(Paperback)

A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread

The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Shachar)(Pevná vazba)

The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. There is little doubt that securing membership status in a given state bequeaths to some a world filled with opportunity and condemns others to a life with little hope. Gaining privileges by

Global Politics: A New Introduction (Edkins Jenny)(Paperback)

The third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and

Global Environmental Politics: Understanding the Governance of the Earth (Morin Jean-Frederic)(Paperback)

Global Environmental Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the key concepts, theories, methods, and debates in environmental politics. The authors' analytical approach encourages students to critique a wide variety of political perspectives, equipping them with the necessary tools to

Global Politics (Lawson Stephanie (Honorary Professor of Politics and International Studies at Macquarie University Australia))(Paperback / softback)

Global Politics is a concise and engaging introduction to international relations. Lawson presents key theories and concepts, demonstrating how they apply to everyday life. Using examples from around the world, both historical and contemporary, the textbook presents a truly global picture of

Human Rights and Global Governance: Power Politics Meets International Justice (Meyer William H.)(Pevná vazba)

International human rights has been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as William H. Meyer observes, global governance is not only a relatively new topic for students of interational relations but also a widely used yet often contested

Women in Politics and Media (Raicheva-Stover Maria)(Paperback)

Although women constitute half of the world's population, their participation in the political sphere remains problematic. While existing research on women politicians from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada sheds light on the challenges and opportunities they face, we still have a