Women and Fluid Identities Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women [Hardcover]

This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self.Acknowledgements List of Tables The Fluidities of Identities: Some Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women; H.Afshar 'Mothers' Pasts and Daughters' Presents and Futures: Across Generational Exploration of Women's Work and Aspirations in Urban China; J.Liu The Wives and Mothers of Heroes: Evolving Identities of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon; M.Holt Mobilizing Collective Networks to Enable Individual Success: The Case of Middle Class Indian Women Employed in Information Technology; J.Belliappa Identity, Moral Economy and Livelihoods: Women's Use of Microfinance in Luribay, Bolivia; K.Maclean 'She Who Disputes' Muslim Women Activists in Italy and the UK Speak for Themselves; A.Belli Iranian State's Religo-ideological Policies and their Impact on Young Migrant Women in Tabriz; M.Velayati Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle: Gender, Agency and Identity; E.Rostami-Povey Competing Interests: Democracy, Islamification and Women Politicians in Iran; H.Afhsar Notes Bibliography IndexALESSIA BELLI Post-doctoral Student at University of York, UKJYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA Lecturer at University of York, UKMARIA HOLT Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster, UKJIEYU LIU Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Leeds, UKKATE MCLEAN Lecturer in Human Geography at King's College London, UKELAHEH ROSTAMI-POVEY Research Associate at SOAS, UKMASOUMEH VELYATI Lecturer in Gender and Development at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK