Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security e-bog

An award-winning author and transdisciplinary social scientist offers a must-read guide to paradigm change for creating a socially and ecologically sustainable future.Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs aims at outlining the kind of change that needs to be made if we wish to create a less crisis-prone world. This audacious work describes a vision for an alternative future, showing how new approaches to love can dignify gender relations, sex, parenthood, and leadership, and how they can guide us to a world where all citizens can live dignified lives. The book is organized in three parts. Part I, "e;Gender, Humiliation, and Lack of Security in Times of Transition,"e; examines the nature of humiliation and how love and humiliation are influenced by large-scale, historical transitions such as globalization. Part II, "e;Gender, Humiliation, and Lack of Security in the World Today,"e; looks at love, sex, parenthood, and leadership and how they can be dignified. Part III, "e;Global Security through Love and Humility in the Future,"e; explores how love can be used to inspire psychological, social, cultural, and political strategies and to stimulate global, systemic change.