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Women and Social Movements in Latin America

Author:  Stephen, Lynn Issue:  Volume 9, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:20

The Oxfam Gender Training Manual

Author:  Williams, Suzanne et al. Issue:  Volum ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 13:48

Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

Author:  Razavi, Shahra and Shireen Hassim (eds.) Publisher:  Basingstoke: Palgr ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:50

Monitoring gendered outcomes of environmental and development policies

Environmental and development policies used to be considered gender-neutral. Women's needs and interests were perceived to be identical to those of men. Empirical research has more recently asserted that policies that were thought to be gender-neutral w ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:19

“Nobody helps us”: insights from ultra-poor Bangladeshi women on being beyond reach

This paper documents the exclusion from formal assistance of 43 Bangladeshi ultra-poor female heads of household, which forces women to rely on overstretched forms of informal assistance that are not culturally prescribed and are often experienced as sh ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:02

A multidisciplinary NGO: the interface of home economics with gender and development

This paper analyses the trends and major themes in the fields of home economics (HE) and gender and development (GAD) focusing on different regions of the world and on change over the course of recent history. The interface of these two fields of educat ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44

Women in Development Europe

The Annual General Assembly of Women in Development Europe (WIDE) took place in Madrid in March 1993. WIDE has members from 13 countries, mainly EC member states. The conference focused on `Women, Human Rights and Development' and the author briefly descr ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54

Children, conflict and displacement

It is increasingly being recognised that many survivors of trauma are not best helped by psychological intervention based on the common Western patient/analyst relationship. Radda Barnen commissioned research into a variety of approaches to working with c ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

`Third World' perspectives on cyberfeminism

Cyberfeminists share the belief that women should `take control of and appropriate the use of cybertechnologies in an attempt to empower ourselves.' The author argues that the demystification of technology is necessary, but not sufficient, for empowerment ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01

The F-word and the S-word - too much of one and not enough of the other

This article questions the growing use of the term ‘faith-based’ in development policy and practice. It is argued that it homogenises people in minority migrant and developing-country contexts and excludes many who are working for human rights and social ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05