The women's movement needs to utilize and strengthen all mechanism viable for such causes, and at all levels. To most women's organizations the world over, including Thailand, the international hu…
Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, poli…
Women's agenda in the UN: to Beijing & Beyond has some basic information on the UN system.The UN based on Shirkat Gah's experience of leading the Beijing+5 review process in Pakistan.This kit provi…
There was evidence at Beijing+5 that progressive positions on women’s human rights, including reproductive rights, have become more widely accepted. For example, many delegations that had opposed…
For thematic evaluations, the review has highlighted methodological problems associated with treating gender mainstreaming as a goal, rather than as a means to the longterm objective of achieving g…
This book analyses Orientalism with particular reference to representations of Muslim women, and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fund…
The aim of this research is precisely to fill the container 'transversal politics' with content. I wanted to see what exactly is involved in the doing of it. The writer's hunch was that the two key…
The past two decades has undoubtedly seen an increase in the study of the links between spirituality, religiousness and psychological adjustment. The relationship of religiosity (the attendance, be…
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…
On the fourth day of our journey we took a rest beside a stream. Suddenly a huge stone fell down towards us from the top of the mountain. One leader said it wasn’t a good sign and to be careful. …
Women are underrepresented in local government in the Asia and Pacific region. Statistics show the percentage of women in local government seats range from a high of 33 percent to a low of 2 percen…
South Africa’s Women’s Budget Initiative (WBI) is a pilot project spearheaded by the Commonwealth Secretariat in its endeavor to promote gender issues in the macroeconomic policies of its membe…
Feminist analysis of the macroeconomic dimensions of public finance(for instance, Elson and Cagatay 2000) suggests that neither the neo-liberal, nor the Keynesian, approach is wholly adequate from …
Most analyses of government budgets and their differential impacts on women and men tend to focus on the expenditure side of the budget, with very little attention being given to the revenue side. …
This Paper explores the experiences and views of government heakth officials in managing the rapid policy change and ongoing restructuring since 1994. It considers the impact of policies and restru…
In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of The Bonds of Womanhood, offers a new interpretation of American feminism during the early decades of this century—a period tradi…
War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How i…
Violence and discrimination against women continues with impunity in many parts of the region and continues to be one of the most visible manifestations of the unequal and unjust power relations be…
Hundreds of women’s information centers and archives, their activities as diverse as their geographies, are working to strengthen the position of women. They aim to empower women, give them a voi…
This book is about six women from Fiji, India, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and the Philippines who entered the political arena to be involved in political decision making machineries, to influence …