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Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants?

This paper, based on field research in Kabul in February 2002, begins by discussing how women experience war and violent conflict differently from men, in particular by defining different types of violence against women in Afghanistan. Second, by identify ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Feminisms in Development: Contradictions , Contestations and Challenges

Author:  Cornwall, Andrea, Elizabeth Harrison, and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Publisher:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:13

Islamism, Secularism and Human Rights in the Middle East

Author:  Monshipouri, Mahmood Issue:  Volume 9, ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:19

Westernising the Third World: the Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories

Author:  Mehmet, Ozay Issue:  Volume 6, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:32

Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism

Author:  Halley, Janet Publisher:  Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton Universi ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 08:56

Gender, energy, and empowerment: a case study of the Rural Energy Development Program in Nepal

Rural women in general, and mountain women in particular, are greatly involved in managing household energy systems in Nepal. Alternative energy technologies have a high potential to reduce women's workloads and improve their health status, as well as i ...

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

Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

Participatory approaches for impact assessment are increasingly becoming popular with development organisations for engaging multiple stakeholders. We present our use of participatory impact diagrams as an evaluation tool within a mixed methods impact a ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2013-02-25 16:11

Mayan dress as a text: contested meanings

This article focuses on the importance, complexity and ambiguity of the symbolic terrain both in everyday life and in social struggle. Taking Mayan women's traditional dress or traje as a text, the author reflects upon the multiple and contested meanings ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:42

Gender in the rural environment

The Institute of Rural Management at Anand (IRMA) in Gujarat, India, convened a workshop in April 1993 involving social scientists, environmentalists and gender experts, from India and the UK. Discussions centred on the application of gender analysis to t ...

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

The community re-integration of Romanian orphanage graduates

In 1994, the authors conducted research in the Iasi district of Romania, and present here findings about institutionalised children's aspirations, education, level of family contact and their assessment of the problems they face. The research provides som ...

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