Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Women, Children & Gender

 

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and
Reproductive Rights

By Jutta M. Joachim

Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 244pp.

* Cross-listed in Global Civil Society

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone:
Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

By Sandya Hewamanne

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 287pp.

* Cross-listed in Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights
Regional Focus on Asia

Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region

Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search
for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region

By Patricia O. Daley

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 268pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Africa & the Middle East
& War, War Crimes & Genocide

Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India

Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses
to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India

By Susan Dewey

Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. 2008. 201pp.

* Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons

Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India

Degrees Without Freedom?: Education,
Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India

By Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2008. 240pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Asia

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
By Siddharth Kara

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2009. 298pp.

*Cross-listed in Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide

Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide
By Andrea Parrot & Nina Cummings

Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 2008. 177pp.

*Cross-listed in Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough

Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and
Rights are not Enough

By Leah Briones

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2009. 231pp.

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