The advocacy activities that have been undertaken by Yasmin in Polman District provide several important lessons, not only for budget activists but indeed for anyone who wants to know how processes…
As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journalcorrespondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fello…
The present study of a small town in rural West Bengal, India, reveals a number of "love-marriages" involving individuals from castes of distinctly different ranks in the local caste hierarchy. Des…
The status of women in Islam is one of the crucial topics and dominant themes in the modern era, which theologians have been studying. Islam regards men and women as being of the same essence creat…
Despite progress in many aspects of the global HIV response, women - particularly adolescent girls and young women - continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. Women constitute more than ha…
Proposing a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, Martha Nussbaum argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically mo…
In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and gro…
Women's Studies: Essential Readings provides a wide range of readers with an entirely comprehensive selection of ever 140 readings on women's studies, representing the entire diversity of current f…
From Margaret Atwood to Daisy Zamora, Simone de Beauvoir to Virginia Woolf, many of the world's greatest women writers have reflected upon one of humanity's most tragic and powerful experiences: wa…
Ms Debbie Budlender’s report on the Women's Budget Initiative from 1995-2002 picked up on some of the key issues raised by Ms Govender. In her reportback, Ms Budlender gave a broad overview of t…
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare that women’s …
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The …
an international conference on population and development was held in Cairo.The Discussions that followed took off from the key points of the paper,zeroing in on such issues as gender stereotyping,…
the main objective of the assessment was to help UNDP gain a better understanding of current situation regarding gender,conflict and peace building in poso and north maluku.
Globalization tendencies, with all their disjunctures and unevenness of development, have highly varied and often even opposite consequences for women. They take hold of and change social systems, …
This book addresses the changing world of work in the context of globalization from a gender perspective. It argues that gender is an indispensable factor in economic policy design and implementati…
It is within this context that the conference was organized in order to bring together rural and indigenous women and their advocates to consider the phenomenon of globalization and to highlight th…
Feminist Ethics is an attempt to revise, reformulate, or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience. Among others, feminist philosopher Alison Jagg…
This pack of information is on rural women. It covers the following areas such as the socio-economic conditions in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Also gender issues in agricultural policies a…
The Women's Resources Access Programme (WRAP), a special programme of the popular coaliton to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty, set out to explore these issues within the context of single project in …