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Gendered Perspectives RESOURCE BULLETIN Winter 2012 Volume 27 :: Number 2 endered erspectives Gon InternationalP Development IN THIS ISSUE Articles . 1 Audiovisuals . .4 Gree ngs from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State Monographs and Technical University, the host center for the Gender, Development, and Globaliza on (GDG) Reports . .6 Program, formerly the Women and Interna onal Development (WID) Program! Periodicals . 12 As always, we encourage submissions and sugges ons from our readers! We especially invite graduate students, scholars, and professionals to review one of a Books. 13 number of books that are available for review. We also encourage submissions by Study Opportunities. 17 authors and publishers of relevant ar cles and books for inclusion in future issues. Grants and Fellowships . 18 Remember, the current and most recent back issues issues of the Resource BulleƟ n, along with much of the Working Papers series, are now available online for free! Conferences. .20 Visit gencen.msu.edu/gdg/publica ons.htm. Calls for Papers. .22 Thank you very much, and enjoy the Winter 2012 issue of the Gendered PerspecƟ ves on InternaƟ onal Development Resource BulleƟ n! Online Resources . .24 Book Review . .26 **The contents of this publicaƟ on were developed under a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of EducaƟ on. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of EducaƟ on.** Execu ve Editor: Anne Ferguson, PhD Managing Editor: Meskerem Glegziabher Editorial Assistants: Varsha Koduvayur Rebecca Farnum Edited by: Galena Os pow AArticlesrticles Development countries is a formidable challenge. International Journal for Equity in Volume 54, Issue 2, 2011 For this reason any interven on Health “Gendering Sustainability: Reframing should be kept logis cally simple and Volume 10, Ar cle 20, 2011 Sustainable Development as Gender incorporated into a general plan aiming “Factors Associated with Female Genital Jus ce,” by Yvonne Braun, pp. 209-211. at building gradually the infrastructure Mu la on in Burkina Faso and its For some, the wide applicability that is necessary to bring care to Policy Implica ons,” by B. Karmaker, N. of sustainability in development the popula on at large. The present Kandala, and D. Chung. Female genital discourse is celebrated as a signifi cant contribu on summarizes some of mu la on (FGM) is widely prac ced in achievement in mainstreaming the priori es in cancer preven on in some parts of Africa, although it can environmental awareness and developing countries and the underlying cause immediate complica ons (pain, responsibility. Others are wary of the evidence base, and addresses some of bleeding and infec on) and delayed “easy” incorpora on of sustainability the challenges. Some of the sugges ons complica ons (sexual, obstetric, into the dominant discourse of for preven on and management off ered psychological problems). This ar cle development, arguing that changing by the author include early screening asserts that several varied and complex seman cs, but not prac ces, creates no and treatment for palpable breast factors have been associated with an real environmental sustainability. While tumors, HPV, and cervical cancer as well increased likelihood of FGM in Burkina the cri que of the “greenwashing” as addressing the uncontrolled use of Faso, where the prevalence of this of development has garnered much carcinogens in industrial processes. harmful phenomenon appears to rise a en on, the role of social equity, in recent years. Introducing some including gender jus ce, has been Feminism and Psychology interes ng fi ndings, this ar cle makes largely invisible within the debate. In Volume 21, Issue 2, 2011 the following conclusions and presents this brief ar cle, Yvonne Braun points “Building Men’s Commitment to Ending the following policy implica ons: out the pi alls of widely appropriated Sexual Violence Against Women,” by M. although women from specifi c groups terms such as sustainability and gender Flood, pp. 262-267. Eff orts to prevent are less likely to have had FGM, it is mainstreaming which remain unclear sexual violence against women and s ll extremely common in Burkina and ill-defi ned and off ers instead the girls now increasingly take as given that Faso; deep cultural issues and strongly use of “gender jus ce” to approach they must engage men and boys. The personally-held beliefs are likely to be the issue of sustainability. She asserts theatre-based interven on described involved in the perpetua on of FGM; for that gender jus ce opens up the in the previous issue of Feminism and Chris an women, policy to reduce FGM possibility of reframing condi ons as Psychology (Rich, 2010) is one of a wave should focus on educa on, while for unjust, acknowledging the unacceptable of programs and strategies focused Muslim women, most benefi ts are likely imbalance of power, privilege, and on males. Using that interven on as to be gained from working with religious resultant suff ering at the same me a springboard, this ar cle asks: why groups and leaders; ideally, policy should that it allows for diff erent gender should we engage men and boys in also be sensi ve to women’s beliefs arrangements that may be seen as more preven ng violence against women, and focus on ensuring that women are just. what strategies are under way, and do empowered to make their own decisions they work? Educa onal interven ons about FGM based on their own fully Environmental Health among males o en invite them to informed choices; a global eff ort to Volume 10, Ar cle S1, 2011 become ac ve or pro-social bystanders, make signifi cant progress in the areas “The Cancer Burden and Cancer Control taking ac on to stop the perpetra on of employment, poverty reduc on and in Developing Countries,” by Paola of specifi c incidents of violence, reduce literacy and to encourage repudia on Pisani. Substan al changes in large the risks of violence escala ng and of FGM and support for change by parts of the developing world have strengthen the condi ons that work religious leaders is a much more effi cient materialized in the last three decades. against violence occurring (Powell, solu on. These are extremely diverse countries 2010: 6–7). However, engaging men with respect to culture, societal values in challenging rape-suppor ve norms Jahangirnagar University and poli cal arrangements, but sharing and behaviors is hard work. This ar cle Anthropology Journal one feature–prevalent poverty and concludes by discussing the barriers Issue 15, 2010 limited resources to protect the health to, and supports for, men’s bystander “Sexuality and Women’s Subordina on: of individuals. The control of emerging interven ons. Global and Local Perspec ves,” by chronic diseases in low-resource Shahina Parvin, pp. 53-68. Women’s 1 sexuality and subordina on are historical Open Democracy not decisively on their agenda. phenomena which have been widely October 25, 2011 analyzed in anthropology and social “Tunisia,” by Kris ne Goulding. In a Psychiatric Services science literatures. The goal of this three-part ar cle with the sub-headings Volume 61, 2010 ar cle is to explain women’s sexuality “Women’s Winter of Discontent,” “Arab “Mental Health and the Development and the pa ern of its control through an Spring, Islamist Summer,” and “Feminist Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa,” by anthropological perspec ve. Divided into Fall?,” UNRISD research analyst Kris ne Rache Jenkins, Florence Baingana, and two sec ons, the fi rst sec on analyzes Goulding examines the transforma on G. Belkin, pp. 229-234. This ar cle women’s sexuality and its rela on to the of gender rela ons from the Arab Spring, synthesizes the views of par cipants in subordina on of women in society. The throughout the Islamist summer, and two roundtables that were convened second sec on examines the pa erns of into the feminist fall. Goulding warns in Nairobi (March 2007) and London women’s sexuality and subordina on in against framing Islamism in direct (July 2008) to iden fy key challenges Bangladeshi society. opposi on to women’s rights. Instead, to the priori za on of mental health the Arab Spring should be seen as an in Africa and possible solu ons. Journal of Human Par cipants included leading Development and development experts and Capabilities policy makers from head and Volume 12, Issue 4, 2011 country offi ces of interna onal “Capably Queer: Exploring donors, na onal directors of the Intersec ons of mental health for several African Queerness and Poverty countries, key mental health in the Urban Philippines,” and public health professionals, by Ryan Thoreson. Despite epidemiologists, and an growing a en on to iden ty interna onal nongovernmental and intersec onality in the organiza on. The challenges fi eld of development, there they iden fi ed to mainstreaming is s ll a dearth of empirical mental health include lack of scholarship exploring the understanding of the contribu on ways that being sexually of mental disorders to morbidity non-norma ve—or queer— and mortality, compe on for shapes the experience of limited resources within health living in poverty in the Global reform eff orts, poor distribu on of South. In this paper, the interven ons and lack of inclusion author uses the “missing of mental health among core dimensions of poverty” generic health indicators, lack framework developed by the of economic research evidence, Oxford Poverty and Human lack of a strategic approach to Development Ini a ve human resources planning, lack to explore the ways that of partnerships with the social queerness and poverty infl ect development sector, and mental each other in the urban health professionals’ need for Philippines.
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