Case Study

‘As a slave woman and as a mother’: women and the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

This article explores how enslaved and freed women in Rio de Janeiro and Havana, the capital cities of the Americas’ last two slaveholding territories, played a crucial and specific part in helping speed and shape the gradual emancipation processes that unfolded simultaneously in each context during the 1870s and 1880s. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Foreign …

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‘‘If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters:’’ Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

This articles adduced masculinity as a variable that may have caused the crisis, speculated about the more prudent investment styles of women, and predicted the fall of macho and the end of men. It provides a narrative that explains the unfamiliar of the crisis, offers a correcting mechanism in the form of prudent woman, and …

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Gender Mainstreaming in the Philippines: Are the Institutional Mechanisms in Place and Functional?

As the primary policy-making and coordinating body of women and gender and equality concerns, and the overall monitor and oversight to ensure the implementation of the MCW, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) conducts this research-based analysis on the efficacy of the statutory requirements, structures, processes, and measures comprising the institutional mechanisms nearly ten years …

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