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Joy and Unrest: Transborder College Students' Sense of Belonging at the US–México Borderlands

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, we present the Transborder College Student Sense of Belonging Model, developed to understand how to create an inclusive and validating campus climate for Transborder students in postsecondary and higher education institutions along the US–México borderlands.
Vannessa Falcón Orta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Feminism and Muslim Women’s Rights Activism in India: From Transnational Discourse to Local Movement - or Vice Versa? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The very recent phenomenon called Islamic feminism receives quite a lot of attention from academia and media alike. Although it is basically a discourse whose strategy and praxis is primarily script related, there seems to be an overt tendency to equate ...
Schneider, Nadja-Christina
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Evaluating Youth Participatory Action Research in the Americas: Comparative Insights on Empowerment, Methodologies, and Social Change

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Feminism, Islam, and the Other Woman: How to Teach

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2019
The author argues that “the progressive scholar engaging women’s issues in the Muslim world must strive to do three things:  historicize feminism, historicize Islam, and highlight the complexities of representation” – and she explains how.
Perin Gurel
doaj   +1 more source

Towards A Pedagogy of Transnational Feminism When Teaching and Activism Go Online

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2021
This article explores the possibilities and limitations of online teaching, based on our experience transforming a study abroad program to Argentina into an online class, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and uprisings for racial justice.
Cara K. Snyder, Sabrina González
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s circles and the rise of the new feminine : reclaiming sisterhood, spirituality, and wellbeing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’.
Longman, Chia
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Between Emancipation and Domination? A Critical Analysis of Empowerment in a Women‐Only Development Program in Costa Rica's Coffee Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Men’s Health and Well-Being: The Case Against a Separate Field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article begins with an examination of the development of the academic and policy field of men’s health and well-being. This includes the form and shape of the field, its ideological positivity, and the different, sometimes contradictory ...
Hearn, Jeff
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Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2008
Using the role of an immigrant researcher in her country of origin, Shahnaz Khan uses her feminist lens to explore dualities, decontextualization, and stereotypes of third-world women, more specifically Muslim women, while examining the contested issue ...
Habiba Zaman
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing 'the anti-globalisation movement' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article interrogates the claim that a transnational anti-globalisation social movement has emerged. I draw on constructivist social movement theory, globalisation studies, feminist praxis and activist websites to make two main arguments, mapping on ...
Eschle, Catherine
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