Young and Female

Sharada Srinivasan, Lu Pan, Aprilia Ambarwati

Women’s roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young women’s pathways into farming. It responds directly to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farmin...

Migración forzada, derechos humanos y salud sexual y reproductiva

Natalia Cintra, David Owen, Pia Riggirozzi

Centrado en el desplazamiento forzado de mujeres y niñas venezolanas, este libro examina la dimensión de género y su impacto en el desplazamiento forzado y las formas en las cuales las fallas de los regímenes de protección y su insensibilidad al carácter de género afectan a las mujeres y niñas migra...

Gender and Resilience in the City

Hanna Ruszczyk

Gender and Resilience in the City is an exploration of one urbanizing city: Bharatpur Nepal, from 2014 to 2019. Bharatpur is representative of countless dynamic cities around the world. Local authorities and residents are learning what it means to be in a city in which the rural and urban are morphi...

Seguir Adiante / Salir Adelante

Pia Riggirozzi, Bruna Curcio, Tallulah Lines, Natalia Cintra

Also available in English/Spanish

Baseado nas fotografias e depoimentos de mulheres migrantes venezuelanas no Brasil, ‘Seguir Adiante / Salir Adelante’ oferece uma visão sincera e...

Moving Forward / Salir Adelante

Pia Riggirozzi, Bruna Curcio, Tallulah Lines, Natalia Cintra

Also available in Spanish/Portuguese

Compiling photographs and testimonies from Indigenous Warao and non-Indigenous Venezuelan women displaced in Brazil, ‘Moving Forward / Salir Ad...

Women Resisting Violence

Women Resisting Violence Collective

Women Resisting Violence is an illuminating and powerful account of the ways in which women and girls encounter violence and the bold initiatives they are developing to respond to it. Across Latin America, the number of femicides has grown at an alarming rate, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. A...

Working to end Gender-based Violence in the Disability Community

Tammy Bernasky

Violence and economic oppression affect women the world over, and women with disabilities face even greater risks than their counterparts. Women with disabilities experience violence and poverty in different ways and at higher rates than non-disabled women and all men. This book explores gender-bas...

Young Feminisms

Caroline Sweetman, Imogen Davies

There are more young people today than ever before, and many countries in the global South have youth populations which make up well over half of the total. Against the backdrop of the #MeToo and #AidToo revelations, sexual abuse and harassment, and targeting and persecution by governments is a real...

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Linda Jones, Adam Bramm

Economic opportunities for women in developing and emerging economies can mean greater empowerment in market systems, enhanced gender equality within the household and benefits to children’s well-being. At the same time, when women are able to participate more equitably in the economic realm, there...

Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Caroline Sweetman

At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing povert...