Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist Perspectives from the South examines the impact of neoliberal reforms and market-driven approaches on governance from a feminist standpoint rooted in …
The market women of India are poor, female, and untouchable (Dalit), all highly stigmatized statuses. They eek out a living for themselves and their children by doing "penny capitalism." Traditiona…
Economics has tended to be a very male, middle class, white discipline. Introducing Race and Gender into Economics is a ground-breaking book which generates ideas for integrating race and gender is…
Inroads to Gender Sensitivity: The POPCOM Experience documents the efforts of the Philippine Commission on Population (POPCOM) to mainstream gender perspectives in population and development progra…
Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. The book rev…
This book brings together the themes of gender, sexuality, violence and organizations. The authors synthesize the literature and research which has been done in these fields and provide a coherent …
Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era challenges the conventional boundaries of international relations (IR) theory by integrating feminist perspectives and postmodern cri…
The African National Congress (ANC) Gender and Equity Subcommittee holds dialogues and prepares reports to assess the progress and challenges in women's development and gender equality in South Afr…
The African Journal on Conflict Resolution – Special Issue on Gender and Transitional Justice in Africa explores the intersection of gender, justice, and post-conflict reconstruction on the Afric…
African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large…
A methodology for gender-sensitive research / [by] Agnès Callamard. : E84-1/1999E-PDF This series includes one manual, A methodology for gender-sensitive research, and four case-study booklets ad…
This book is a summary report on the conference, “A Gender Agenda 2: Asia-Europe Dialogue—Transformational Approaches to the Roles of Women and Men in Economic Life and Political Decision-Makin…
Against Prostitution, for the Women in Prostitution is a position paper that critically examines prostitution as a system of exploitation rooted in patriarchy. It highlights how prostitution is sus…
Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as norm…
This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' scienc…
With Hindsight, Heading Forward: Integrative Thai Feminist Standpoint by Wiradā Somsawat (2006) presents an overview of Thai feminist scholarship and activism from a standpoint perspective. Publis…
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Popular belief is that women have no freedom and no status in an Islamic society, but this is based on total ignorance and misinformation. The half-baked knowledge leads people to such conclusion. …
"Risks, Rights and Reforms" is the title of a 1999 survey by the Women\'s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) that assessed government actions five years after the 1994 International Co…
The Policy Paper on Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Change Adaptation highlights the importance of integrating gender perspectives into climate policies and practices. It outlines how women and men…