Women & Gender Studies

AAP Insights in Women’s and Gender Studies: Reshaping Identities

Subverting Social Inequalities
Gender as a Social Reality

Editors: Akanksha Srivastava, PhD
Disha Maheshwari, PhD
Chitra Krishnan, PhD

Subverting Social Inequalities

In Production
Pub Date: Forthcoming September 2024
Hardback Price: $190 US | £150 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774918142
Pages: Est. 355pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Series: AAP Insights in Women’s and Gender Studies: Reshaping Identities
Notes: 14 color and 3 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“Refreshing to read as the chapters are analytically robust, lucid in style, maintain logical flow, and bring nuanced insights on a wide range of thematic areas. The overarching concern of this anthology is to examine two crucial areas of gendered realities: education and workforce. . . . [A] timely publication [that] gains great significance to identify the roots of hurdles and major challenges in approaching gender equality and finding solutions to them. . . . An important resource for policymakers, political and development practitioners, employers and educationists, and of course students, research scholars, and teachers.”
—From the Foreword by Vibhuti Patel, Vice President, Indian Association for Women‘s Studies


Despite being over 20 years into the 21st century, social inequality is a persistent problem around the world, with historical, cultural, and economic roots perpetuated by social norms and expectations. One of the most pervasive and enduring forms of social inequality is gender inequality. This new book, Subverting Social Inequalities: Gender as a Social Reality, explores the ways in which gender operates as a social reality and how it intersects with other forms of social inequality, such as race, class, sexuality, and ability.

The book examines how gender is constructed and maintained through various social institutions, such as family, workforce, and education systems. It also analyzes the ways in which individuals and groups subvert gender norms and looks at the challenges to gender inequalities through activism, art, and other forms of resistance. The book explores the internalization of gender ideology and construction in classroom discourse. It looks at the gender disparity of boys and girls in their adoption of information and communications technology as well as in their interest in mathematics around the world. It assesses the gender-illiteracy nexus in relation to girl-child education through the lens of conflict theory. It also explores the intersection of professional identity and gender identity construction by women professionals in academia by investigating experiences of gender-based harassment and discrimination in a number of countries, including Turkey, Germany, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and India. The volume explores female entrepreneurship, a growing field of research, crucial to the corporate environment.

With the goal to facilitate advancing gender equality in challenging times, this volume investigates gender inequality in several areas and advocates for equality of rights for men and women as a prerequisite for a peaceful, wealthy, and sustainable world. This book will be of interest to researchers, faculty and studies, policymakers and others concerned with gender issues in society.

CONTENTS:
Foreword by Vibhuti Patel, Vice President, Indian Association for Women‘s Studies

Preface

Introduction

1. Gender Bias, Internalization, and Reinforcement in Classroom Discourse: A Case Study of Communicative English Classrooms in Vietnam

Nhung Hong Thi Nguyen and Tram Ngoc Ngo

2. A Narrative Enquiry into Intersections of Professional Identity and Gender Identity Construction in Academia
Disha Maheshwari and Akanksha Srivastava

3. Gender-Based Socialization Within the Formal System of Education: With Special Reference to Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Learners Occupying the Classrooms
Manvi Arora

4. The Girl-Child Education: An Assessment of the Gender-Illiteracy Nexus in Nigeria
Abel Ebiega Enokela

5. Gender Disparity in the Adoption of Information and Communications Technology


6. Gender Difference in Mathematics Performance: A Global Perspective
Rekha Kaushal

7. Influence of the ‘Gender School Concept’ on Gender Role Behavior and Gender Equality: A Sri Lankan Context
Amila Rupasinghe

8. “They‘re Already on the Moon While We‘re Still Stuck in the Stone Age”: Exploring the Language of Gender (In)Equality in German Workplaces from an Employee‘s Perspective
Vivian Steurer and Stephanie Schnurr

9. Feminization of the Labor Force in the Waste Sector: A Case Study of Kerala, India
S. Rakendu, Neelam Rana, and N. C. Narayanan

10. The Paradox of Gender Equality in the Corporate World
Supriya Lamba Sahdev, Chitra Krishnan, Kiran Nair, and Ashutosh Sharad

11. “When People Heard I Was Going Instead of My Husband, Everyone Was Shocked and Discriminated Against Us”: Exploring the Gendering of Professional Mobility from the Perspective of a Non-Elite Migrant
Yesim Kakalic, Marianna Slutskaya, and Stephanie Schnurr

12. Inequality in the Land of Opportunity: A Case Study on the Gender Differences in Pursuing the American Dream for Indian Immigrants
Ashika Srivastava

13. A Study on Barriers Women Face to Sustain Educational Leadership Positions in Sri Lanka: How Sri Lanka Educational Administrative Service Female Officers Cope with the Barriers
Thanuja Maithrie Witharana

14. Navigating Uncertainty: Advancing Gender Equality in Challenging Times
Jasmine Mariappan, Abdulla Thanseer, Mohamed Riyas, and Joshi Raghavan Edassery

15. Indian Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Emerging Issues
Seema Garg

16. Gender Equality: The Need of the Hour in Times of Uncertainty
Shikha Kapoor

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Akanksha Srivastava, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Education, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India

Akanksha Srivastava, PhD, is an experienced academician, writer, and editor with over 15 years in the education industry. She is currently working as an Associate Professor with The School of Education, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. She has worked on a variety of projects, including nonfiction books, academic articles, and technical reports. In addition to her work as an editor, she is also an accomplished author. Her research interests include the intersection of inclusion with a focus on women’s experiences, on which she has published extensively. As the editor of this volume, Dr. Srivastava brought together a diverse group of scholars to explore the various themes and topics related to the history of gender and sexuality in Europe, Asia, Africa, and USA. Dr. Srivastava holds a doctoral degree in Education and a master‘s degree in English and Anthropology.

Disha Maheshwari, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Education, Sharda University, India

Disha Maheshwari, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Sharda University, India. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, England. At Sharda University, she teaches courses on gender studies, communication, and research methodology in education (qualitative) at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and on pedagogy at the PhD level. She has presented her research work around the world, including at Cambridge, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Warwick, Oslo (virtual), Tamilnadu, Punjab, etc. Her areas of interest are gender and education, discourse and identity, and higher education pedagogy. She worked as a research assistant on the project “ELT Survey of India” from February 2016–May 2016 at the University of Warwick, UK, funded by the British Council. She also worked as a project associate on the project “Children and Teachers as Co-Researchers: Exploring Young Learner Classrooms in India,” funded by the Rand D Project Grant, University of Delhi, India. She was awarded her PhD in Education from the University of Delhi, India.

Chitra Krishnan, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Behavioral Science, Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Noida, India

Chitra Krishnan, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Behavioral Science at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Noida, India. She is a teaching professional with over 16 years of national and international experience. She possesses excellence in teaching and research. Before her academic career, she worked in industry in various positions of responsibility. She has been actively involved in rigorous academic pursuits in the field of higher professional education to enhance skill sets that promote the holistic development of learners. She has a number of publications in acclaimed journals at the national and international levels and has also participated in many national and international conferences. She is passionate about writing and has seven books to her credit with international publishers. She has been impaneled as a member of the review committees for conferences and journals of repute. Her area of interest includes human resource management, organizational behavior, talent management, diversity management, employee satisfaction, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and emotional intelligence.




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