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Genderedperspectives RESOURCE BULLETIN Spring 2011 Volume 26 :: Number 3 Gendered Perspectives on International Development IN THIS ISSUE Greeti ngs from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State Articles . 1 University, the host center for the Gender, Development, and Globalizati on (GDG) Program, formerly the Women and Internati onal Development (WID) Program! Audiovisuals . 4 Monographs and Technical The Gendered Perspecti ves on Internati onal Development Working Papers series Reports . 6 is pleased to announce the publicati on of its newest paper, “Prolonging Suff ering: Domesti c Violence, Politi cal Economy, and the State in Northern Vietnam,” by Lynn Periodicals . 13 Kwiatkowski. While the Vietnamese state has recently made domesti c violence a Books . 14 prominent concern, it has conti nued to emphasize a reconciliati on approach which has had the unintended eff ect of prolonging the suff ering of many abused women. Study Opportunities. 17 This paper examines the links between a state approach to domesti c violence, transnati onal processes, and women’s physical and emoti onal health and suff ering. Grants and Fellowships . 19 This paper, along with the enti re working paper series, is now available free online Conferences. 20 at: gencen.msu.edu/publicati ons/papers.htm. Calls for Papers . 23 As always, we encourage submissions and suggesti ons from our readers! We especially invite graduate students, scholars, and professionals to review one of a Online Resources . 25 number of books that are available for review. We also encourage submissions by Book Review . 28 authors and publishers of relevant arti cles and books for inclusion in future issues. Remember, the current issue of the Resource Bulleti n, along with the most recent back issues, are now online! Visit gencen.msu.edu/publicati ons/bulleti n.htm. Thank you very much, and enjoy the Spring 2011 issue of the Gendered Perspecti ves on Internati onal Development Resource Bulleti n! Executi ve Editor: Anne Ferguson, PhD **The contents of this publicati on were developed under a Title VI grant Managing Editor: Meskerem Glegziabher from the U.S. Department of Educati on. However, those contents do Editorial Assistants: Elizabeth Petoskey not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Rebecca Farnum Educati on.** Edited by: Galena Osti pow AArticlesrticles Analyses of Social Issues and Public equality perspecti ve. Currently, the as part of the overall atti tudes gained Policy equality jurisprudence in Ghana is since childhood, infl uenced Cuban Volume 10, Number 1, 2010 insuffi ciently developed to provide migrants who have left the island “Promoti ng Gender Equality: The Role the necessary foundati on to establish permanently since 1990, introduced of Ideology, Power, and Control in the the state’s obligati on to criminalize uniqueness in their migrati on processes, Link Between Land Ownership and marital rape. Therefore, this arti cle and made up a diff erent feminizati on Violence in Nicaragua,” by Shelly Grabe, uses two judicial decisions, Doe v. of migrati on; identi fying the features pp. 146-170. Scholars have argued that Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) of Cuban social structure that shaped insti tuti onal inequiti es and control Commissioners of Police and Hadijatou the gender ideology of Cuban migrants; over resources are linked to gender- Mani Koraou v. Niger to explore the and producing new knowledge about based violence. However, psychologists challenges in arguing that Ghanaian Cuban internati onal migrati on processes have yet to repositi on their research law is discriminatory in its treatment by using a gender perspecti ve and questi ons to examine how structural of marital rape. The arti cle develops by analyzing the gender relati ons inequiti es lead to power imbalances and a substanti ve equality analysis of prevailing in the years before the gender-based norms that perpetuate the harm resulti ng from the legal crisis of the 1990s, as well as since the threats to women’s health and safety. impunity for marital rape in Ghana and beginning of the twenty-fi rst century. This study provides a theoreti cal constructs an analysis of how marital The fi rst part of this arti cle focuses on framework for, and an examinati on of, rape consti tutes sex discriminati on. The gender disti ncti veness of recent Cuban hypotheses surrounding the role of land arti cle includes an examinati on of the migrants, and the second summarizes ownership in shift ing gender relati ons history of the Ghanaian marital rape some traits of the Cuban social and women’s receipt of violence that legislati on, the impact of the legislati on, structure—mainly referred to female have been posed in the literature including the ways in which women are employment—that could explain the but never empirically tested. Surveys disadvantaged under the legislati on gender training of the migrants. conducted in rural Nicaragua revealed by the perpetuati on of sexist myths that land ownership among women and stereotypes, and the legal tools Current Anthropology challenges traditi onal gender ideology available to address the discriminatory Volume 51, Number S2, October 2010 and increases women’s power and legislati on. The arti cle also examines “Voicing Diff erence: Gender and Civic control within the marital relati onship, how the experience of colonizati on has Engagement among Karachi’s Poor,” which in turn reduces levels of violence. contributed to the inequality associated by Kamran Asdar Ali, pp. 313-320. The fi ndings have important implicati ons with the legal treatment of marital rape This arti cle addresses the challenges for the discussion of gender-based in Ghana. The applicati on of customary in our work as social criti cs and violence in the context of development law to marital rape claims is also engaged anthropologists. Within this and for initi ati ves that can lead to more examined. context, it will show how academically equitable policies for women. The study trained anthropologists respond puts psychology at the crossroads of Cuban Studies to the tensions between cultural women’s human rights, globalizati on, Volume 41, 2010 specifi citi es and universal values that and social change by putti ng forth “Cubans Abroad: A Gendered Case they encounter in their research. To a novel model for understanding Study on Internati onal Migrati ons,” by develop the argument, the arti cle inequality and providing an empirical Marta Núñez-Sarmiento, pp. 105-125. relies on ethnographic research among framework for social justi ce. Cubans who have migrated since the women workers in Karachi’s ready- 1990s aft er living for two decades or to-wear export garment industry to Canadian Journal of Women and the more in their country of origin left show how lower-class women live and Law with an embedded gender ideology navigate the gendered public spaces Volume 22, Number 2, 2010 that they acquired in a society where in Karachi. Following this theme, the “Marital Rape in Ghana: Legal Opti ons gender relati ons were undergoing arti cle introduces the process through for Achieving State Accountability,” radical transformati ons. As a result, which grass roots acti vists inspired by Elizabeth Archampong and Fiona Cuban feminizati on of migrati ons has by a language of universal rights and Sampson, pp. 505-534. This arti cle its peculiariti es. In this context, there women’s empowerment seek to address analyzes the legal regulati on of marital are three issues to consider: explaining working-class women’s social and work- rape in Ghana from a substanti ve how gender relati ons att ained in Cuba, related problems. However, juxtaposing 1 this with women’s own voices, the invest more in quality than in quanti ty internati onal multi cultural policy arti cle shows that such developmental of children. Here we test the impact of that acknowledges poverty among prioriti es may suppress women’s resources on educati onal investment in indigenous peoples and their historic own points of view. In doing so, it two populati ons on the cusp of ferti lity marginalizati on from power over will foreground the larger structural decline: the patrilineal Arsi Oromo of development. Although the impact forces that create socioeconomic Ethiopia and the matrilineal Chewa of of these legal and programmati c uncertainti es in their lives. It will then Malawi. In both populati ons, increased eff orts is growing, one persistent share women’s own experiences to wealth is associated with greater biases axis of disadvantage, male-female argue that these voices, while asserti ng in the allocati on of educati on between diff erence, is rarely taken into account in their independence, ethnodevelopment policy and practi ce. their right to work, This arti cle argues that assumpti ons and their right to that inform policy related to indigenous equal wages—a women fail to engage with indigenous sign of contractual women’s development concerns. and asserti ve The insti tuti onal separati on between individualized gender and development policy (GAD) agency—and and multi culturalism means that simultaneously hint provisions for gender in multi cultural at their emphasizing policies are inadequate, and ethnic of familial honor and rights in GAD policies are invisible. respectability. Drawing on postcolonial feminism, the paper examines ethnicity and gender Volume 51, Number as interlocking systems that structure 5, October 2010 indigenous women’s development “Does Wealth experiences. These arguments are Increase Parental illustrated in relati on to the case of Investment Biases the Tsáchila ethnocultural group in the in Child Educati on? South American country of Ecuador. Evidence from Two African Populati ons Fish and Fisheries on the Cusp of the Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2010 Ferti lity Transiti on,” “Gleaner, Fisher, Trader, Processor: by Mhairi A.
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