Browsing by Author "Simon-Kumar, Rachel"

• The analytics of “gendering” the post-neoliberal state 

  Simon-Kumar, Rachel (Oxford University Press, 2011)

  “Post-neoliberalism” or “after neoliberalism”' is a term that is associated with forms of governance that emerged in the mid-late 1990s with the Third Way and social investment states in the UK, Canada, and Aotearoa/New ...

• ‘Approve to Decline’: A feminist critique of ‘Fairness’ and ‘Discrimination’ in a case study of EEO in the New Zealand Public Sector 

  Simon-Kumar, Rachel (Women's Studies Association of New Zealand, 2008)

  The present paper aims to look at the contexts of meanings that surround Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) in practice, particularly for issues of gender justice. At the heart of the paper is a critical appraisal of one ...

  

• Beyond transformation and regulation: Productive tensions and the analytics of inclusion 

  Simon-Kumar, Rachel; Kingfisher, Catherine (Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011)

  The inclusion of marginal groups is increasingly becoming part of contemporary governance. Critical appraisals categorize inclusionary mechanisms either as politically transformative or as regulative and part of the state's ...

• Book review: Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward. 

  Simon-Kumar, Rachel (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

  This article reviews the book: Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward. Edited by Laura Reichenbach & Mindy Jane Roseman. Pp. 304. (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2009.)

  

• Book Review: Sexuality, Health and Human Rights by Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky and Richard Parker 

  Simon-Kumar, Rachel (2009)

  This article reviews the book “Sexuality, Health and Human Rights”, by Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky and Richard Parker.

• Translating MDG 3: Gender, Empowerment and the Adolescent Girl in Maharashtra, India 

  Nandedkar, Lalitgauri (University of Waikato, 2017)

  This thesis is an exploration of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, tracing its path from a global aspiration to its translation into a developing world context. Adopted in 2001 by the United Nations, the eight MDGs ...

  

• Let the Real Scheherazade Stand: Literary Representations of Middle Eastern Women 

  Al-Hadban, Leen Mustafa Naji (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis considers the multiple and complex ways in which Arab and Middle Eastern women have been conceived in literature written by both Western and Arab male and female authors. It covers almost a millennium of ...

  

• Engendering the evaluation of anti-trafficking policy: The Vietnamese National Action Programme against trafficking in women and children 2004-2010 (THE VNAP) 

  Duong, Kim Anh (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Human trafficking is a prominent global problem affecting some 27 million people worldwide and has social, developmental, and human rights implications. Although in its various forms trafficking affects men, women and ...

  

• An Investigation of the Communal and Individual Resilience of Immigrant Women in New Zealand 

  Okuyama, Lucinda (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Some immigrant women face triple discrimination due to their, gender, ethnicity and immigrant status. The voices of immigrant women are absent from literature on immigration, furthermore the experience of immigrant women ...

  

• Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society 

  Adikaram Boyagoda, Adikaram Mudiyanselage Kumudika Suramya (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Since the 1970s, female-headed households (FHHs) in developing countries have often been used in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability. In reality the profile of women-headed households is diverse; ...

  

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