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Africa Today insti tuti onal separati on between gender and those with whom they interact. Volume 57, Number 1, Fall 2010 and development policy (GAD) and Married women’s status as subordinate “Addressing the Impact of HIV/AIDS on multi culturalism means that provisions to their in-laws creates more negati ve Women and Children in Sub-Saharan for gender in multi cultural policies are experiences than any other status. Africa: PEPFAR, the U.S. Strategy,” inadequate, and ethnic rights in GAD by Patricia Rodney et al., pp 65-76. policies are invisible. Drawing on post- Volume 17, Issue 6, December 2010 Esti mated worldwide deaths caused by colonial feminism, the paper examines “Fighti ng for Recogniti on: Feminist HIV/AIDS total approximately 25 million. ethnicity and gender as interlocking Geography in East-Central Europe,” This epidemic has harmed the African systems that structure indigenous by Judit Timár and Eva G.Fekete, pp. conti nent in numerous ways and has women’s development experiences. 775-790. In East-Central Europe (ECE), profoundly changed its demographic These arguments are illustrated in the evoluti on of feminist geographies profi le. Globally, women who are most relati on to the case of the Tsáchila began aft er the end of state socialism. physiologically and socially vulnerable ethnocultural group in the South Aiming to identi fy individual and shared to infecti ons are devastati ngly aff ected American country of Ecuador. characteristi cs, this study outlines by it. The President’s Emergency the development of gender/feminist Plan for AIDS Relief, launched by the Gender, Place and Culture geography in ECE countries. The topics, administrati on of President George W. Volume 17, Issue 6, December 2010 methods and theories of feminist Bush, was the largest U.S. investment in “Culture, Emoti onal Transnati onalism geography that have developed in any disease; however, its strategies were and Mental Distress: Family Relati ons ECE is signifi cantly infl uenced by the fl awed by its failure to coordinate eff orts and Well-Being Among Taiwanese resistance that advocates of feminist with other global partners and to engage Immigrant Women,” by Chien-Juh geography have to contend with from local indigenous organizati ons. This Gu, pp. 687-704. Immigrant women’s representati ves of mainstream post- paper examines the impact of HIV/AIDS vulnerability to mental distress has been socialist geographies. The second on women and children in sub-Saharan recognized in the literature and yet the part of the arti cle presents the major Africa and reviews the U.S. response to socio-cultural causes of their distress characteristi cs of gender/feminist this epidemic. have rarely been explored. On the basis geography in Europe’s post-socialist of a case study of Taiwanese immigrants region, while providing an outline of Development and Change residing in Chicago, this arti cle illustrates the various methods used in an att empt Volume 41, Issue 6, November 2010 the dynamic contexts within which to earn positi ve recogniti on for gender “Ethnicity, Development and Gender: Taiwanese immigrant women’s distress studies. The concluding secti on maps Tsáchila Indigenous Women in is produced at home and explains the some lessons to be learnt on the Ecuador,” by Sarah Radcliff e and social and cultural factors that engender relati onship between the producti on of Andrea Pequeño, pp. 983-1016. In the women’s distress. In this arti cle, feminist geographical knowledge and recent decades, indigenous populati ons the author argues that Taiwanese post-socialism. have become the subjects and agents immigrant women frequently shift of development in nati onal and back and forth between Taiwanese and IDS Bulletin internati onal multi cultural policy American cultural norms in an eff ort to Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2010 that acknowledges poverty among apply eff ecti ve behavioral guidance and “Women’s Parti cipati on in the NREGA: indigenous peoples and their historic justi fi cati ons to interacti ons with their Some Observati ons from Fieldwork marginalizati on from power over spouses, children and in-laws. The term in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and development. Although the impact of “emoti onal transnati onalism” is used to Rajasthan,” by Ratna M. Sudarshan, Rina these legal and programmati c eff orts describe the psychological experience Bhatt acharya, and Grace Fernandez, pp. is growing, one persistent axis of associated with transnati onal cultural 77–83. The broad objecti ve of this study disadvantage, male–female diff erence, practi ces. Distress is oft en generated was to understand the reasons behind is rarely taken into account in ethno- as these women struggle with feelings the wide variati ons in parti cipati on by development policy and practi ce. This of ambivalence and contradicti ons women in the NREGA and the policy arti cle argues that assumpti ons that that confront them in their search implicati ons that follow. Based on inform policy related to indigenous for cultural identi ti es. The severity of fi eldwork in two states where women women fail to engage with indigenous distress is largely determined by the form a high proporti on of the workers, women’s development concerns. The power hierarchies between women Kerala and Rajasthan, and one where

1 the proporti on was low, Himachal the planning cycle. In parti cular, there frame people living with AIDS as a Pradesh, emerging policy implicati ons are certain “criti cal moments” in the parti cular category of “deserving” and include the need to develop a wider life of any interventi on when the ideas, “entrepreneurial” citi zens, and then range of acti viti es that acknowledge values and knowledge of key decision- re-frames them through a package of life cycle issues and bodily ability; in making actors have a profound impact health and welfare interventi ons. Based sparsely populated and remote areas a on how the interventi on plays out in on ethnographic research with the diff erent design or even a cash transfer practi ce. The arti cle sets out to develop members of Khululeka, a support group program may be bett er able to meet a theory of change that addresses for HIV-positi ve men, the study pays the objecti ve of assuring minimum the issue of women’s empowerment. parti cular att enti on to how masculinity income; creati on of spaces that allow It applies this theory to the criti cal has shaped the ways these men have non-governmental local groups to be moments framework. Finally, it draws experienced and transformed these parti cipants in implementati on and on case studies of interventi ons funded state interventi ons. outreach work and not just watchdogs; by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati on immediate revision of the schedule of to illustrate key lessons for their Volume 46, Issue 8, September 2010 rates and implementi ng the revised rates transformati ve potenti al for women’s “Are Women as Likely to Take Risks to allow bett er earning, or else payment empowerment. and Compete? Behavioural Findings on a daily wage basis. from Central Vietnam,” by Diana Journal of Development Studies Fletschner, C. Leigh Anderson, and Volume 46, Issue 3, March 2010 Alison Cullen, pp. 1459-1479. Using “Women’s Empowerment across controlled experiments to compare the Generati ons in Bangladesh,” by Sidney risk atti tude and willingness to compete Ruth Schuler and Elisabeth Rott ach, pp. of husbands and wives in 500 couples 379-396. This study uses qualitati ve data in rural Vietnam, we fi nd that women to examine young women’s relati onships are more risk averse than men and that, with their mothers and mothers-in-law compared to men, women are less likely to understand how these relati onships to choose to compete, irrespecti ve of foster empowerment in the younger how likely they are to succeed. Relevant generati on or fail to do so. The data to development programs concerned consist of ethnographic interviews with lift ing women out of poverty, with 20 triads of women: young our fi ndings suggest that women married women, their mothers, and may be more reluctant to adopt new their mothers-in-law. Findings show technologies, take out loans, or engage that the infl uence of empowerment in economic acti viti es that off er higher across generati ons was greater in the expected returns, in order to avoid sphere of economic empowerment and setups that require them to be more educati on than in relati on to marriage competi ti ve or that have less predictable and childbearing. The study illustrates outcomes. how patriarchal insti tuti ons resistant to Volume 41, Issue 6, November 2010 change can limit the eff ects of women’s Volume 46, Issue 9, October 2010 “Women’s Empowerment, empowerment on the next generati on. “Part-Time Work, Gender and Development Interventi ons and the Job Sati sfacti on: Evidence from a Management of Informati on Flows,” by Volume 46, Issue 7, August 2010 Developing Country,” by Florencia L Naila Kabeer, pp. 105–113. This “Grounding ‘Responsibilisati on pez Bóo, Lucia Madrigal, and Carmen arti cle takes gender inequaliti es in Talk’: Masculiniti es, Citi zenship and Pagés, pp. 1543-1571. This paper the distributi on of power as its point HIV in Cape Town, South Africa,” by investi gates the relati onship between of departure. Given the widespread Christopher J. Colvin, Steven Robins, and part-ti me work and job sati sfacti on in evidence of the extent to which women, Joan Leavens, pp. 1179-1195. This paper Honduras. In contrast to previous work parti cularly poor women, have been investi gates how the South African for developed countries, this paper marginalized in processes by which state has understood the relati onship does not fi nd higher job sati sfacti on development policies are designed between HIV and poverty and how among women working part-ti me. and implemented, it suggests that individuals and community-based Instead, for both women and men, explicit att enti on needs to be given to organizati ons have responded to these job sati sfacti on is higher when in full- strengthening women’s capacity for state interventi ons. It considers the ways ti me work, although this fi nding is voice and acti on at diff erent stages of in which liberal forms of government stronger for men. Consistent with an

2 AARTICLESRTICLES interpretati on of working part-ti me as confi rms that the cultural constructi on Signs: Journal of Women and luxury consumpti on, the paper fi nds of monogamy, generally speaking, is not Culture in Society that partnered women with children, synonymous with sexual exclusivity. This Volume 35, Number 4, Summer 2010 poor women or women working in the working paper is available in English, “Women Left Behind? Migrati on, informal sector are more likely to report Spanish, and Portuguese. Spousal Separati on, and the Autonomy higher job sati sfacti on when working of Rural Women in Ugweno, Tanzania,” full-ti me than single women, partnered Number 4, October 2009 by Caroline S. Archambault, pp. 919-942. women without children, non-poor “The Architecture of Desire: Spati al For some ti me, scholars have argued women or women working in the formal Grammars of Lesbian Socializati ons,” that migrati on research has neglected sector. by Andrea Lacombe, 47 pp. This women. The young male migrant in arti cle describes the use of space in search of wage labor has long been the Sexualidades the bailes da Mary (Mary’s dances), model actor for demographic, economic, Number 5, July 2010 held at the Olímpico Club, located in and sociological theories of migrati on. “Trajectories of Male Coupling: the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio Through its disregard for women’s roles An Explorati on Based on Sexual de Janeiro. Through this dance, it is in migrati on and migrati on decisions, Biographies,” by Gabriel Gallego possible to reconstruct the grammars this male-centered scholarship has Montes, 46 pp. This paper is based on of socializati on of lesbian women in the suggested that women are either a survey conducted in Mexico City in context of a space of entertainment. passive followers or “left behind” 2006 among 250 gay/homosexual men The importance of analyzing the wives. In recent years, scholars from between the ages of 16 and 55. Based spati ality and architecture of the several disciplines have responded to on full biographical data collected on site is related to the noti on of the this neglect of women by emphasizing their experiences of being in couples, “constructi on of space,” which occurs in their mobility and their experiences as the author identi fi ed three types a dialecti cal relati onship with grammars emigrants in internati onal and internal of trajectories or modes of sexual of socializati on: the “who” and the migrati on. By and large, these studies interacti on: 1) trajectories of coupling: “how” depend on the “where.” And have recognized the agency of female exclusively with men, with women, the “where” contains a public whose migrants. Nevertheless, rural dwellers, rhizomati c, transiti ve, and without a use of the space invests it with certain those apparently “left behind” by history of being in a couple; 2) styles of meanings. migrant husbands, sti ll receive litt le coupling: mono and polyamorous; and att enti on. This arti cle investi gates why 3) trajectories of sexual relati onships: Number 1, July 2007 women in Ugweno, Tanzania, have closed or exclusive, open, and fl uid or “The Social Constructi on of Sexuality remained on their farms while their mixed. These constructi ons consti tute in Two Groups of Men that Have Sex husbands have migrated out. Through typologies or ways of understanding a with Men from Two Poor Peruvian detailed migrati on histories and sociosexual reality in relati onal terms. Citi es,” by Percy Fernández-Dávila et in-depth interviews with a randomly The results indicate that the gay/ al., 58 pp. This study describes the selected group of couples, this author homosexual men interviewed are highly meanings ascribed to sexuality in two explores how the label “left behind” monoamorous, (e.g. 84% reported groups of MSM (men who have sex with does injusti ce not only to the ways in being monogamous), a fi nding that men)—“mariconas” and “mostaceros.” which Ugweno women are involved in is relati vely constant across cohorts. Twenty-three individual interviews migrati on and migrati on decisions but With age and as the number of sexual were conducted, and seven discussion also to the fact that, for many women, partners and relati onships increases, groups were organized. The results remaining on the rural farm is part of an however, the preponderance of reveal that the sexual identi ty of these empowering strategy, off ering women monoamory as the culturally accepted MSM crosses aspects of social class a degree of economic autonomy and way to construct aff ecti ve ti es decreases with aspects of the traditi onal gender social wellbeing that they would not slightly, giving way to polyamory. The divide. A heteronormati ve view of necessarily have found as migrants. preponderance of monoamory is an sexuality imposes rigid sexual roles, with indicator of the norms and discourses a marked impact on understandings Social Science and Medicine about the nature of aff ecti ve ti es in of the body and the experience of Volume 71, Issue 10, November 2010 Mexican society, which extends to pleasure. An understanding of the social “Confronti ng Maternal Mortality, the fi eld of homoeroti cism. Regarding constructi ons of sexuality among MSM Controlling Birth in Nepal: The sexual exclusivity, the number of men is important to design health programs Gendered Politi cs of Receiving in closed relati onships is signifi cantly and public policies that contemplate Biomedical Care At Birth,” by Jan lower (42%) than those who identi fi ed sexual diversity. Brunson, 28 pp. One way of reducing as monogamous (84%). This diff erence maternal mortality in developing

AARTICLESRTICLES 3 countries is to ensure that women have not require human a referral system at the local level that regulati on toward includes access to emergency obstetric one that is located care. Using a 13-month ethnographic within the domain study from 2003-2005 of women’s of biomedical social positi ons and maternal health experti se and in a semi-urban community of Hindu- control, local caste women in the Kathmandu Valley, acceptance of this paper identi fi es impediments a biomedical to receiving obstetric care in a model does not context where the infrastructure and necessarily lead to services are in place. As birth in Nepal the uti lizati on of predominantly takes place at home, services if neither this paper identi fi es the following areas women nor men for potenti al improvement in order to are in a culturally- avoid the loss of women’s lives during defi ned positi on to childbirth: the frequency of giving act. birth unaided, minimal planning for based on women’s demographics. Four birth or obstetric complicati ons, and Violence Against Women hundred women in three districts of delayed responses at the household Volume 16, Number 7, July 2010 Khatlon Oblast, Tajikistan parti cipated in level to obstetric emergencies. Focusing “Suicidality Among Batt ered Women this general populati on survey. Overall, parti cularly on the last item, this study in Tajikistan,” by Robin N. Haarr, pp. women who experienced physical and/ concludes that women do not have the 764-788. This study examines the or sexual violence in their marriage and power to demand biomedical services or relati onship between suicide rates who told someone about the abuse were emergency care, and men sti ll view birth and women’s experiences with marital more likely to have suicidal thoughts and as the domain of women and remain violence in Tajikistan, including the type att empt suicide. The study’s implicati ons mostly uninvolved in the process. As of abuser and help-seeking behaviors for future research on issues of marital the cultural constructi on of birth shift s of batt ered women. This is a descripti ve violence and female suicide are from a “natural” phenomenon that did study that also includes comparisons discussed.

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4 Norwegian Refugee Council their rights and demand an end to Alicia Escalante; and historian/writer vimeo.com/17083011 violence and discriminati on. A report Martha Cotera. The fi lm considers how Another War published by the Open Society Insti tute, these single mothers managed to be This fi lm follows 20 year old Liberian Rights Not Rescue is based on a series parents and eff ect broad-based social university student Kula Fofana on her of interviews and focus groups with change at the same ti me. Historical journey as she seeks to understand sex workers and advocates throughout footage and recent interviews with each the realiti es of life for those that have Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. woman reveal their contributi ons to key survived physical and sexual violence In this animated short fi lm, sex workers struggles for Lati no empowerment and in Liberia and tries to understand who parti cipated in the research and other major movements of our ti me. the beliefs and causes surrounding related roundtable discussions tell Both they and their grown children sexual violence. The level of violence their personal stories and share the thoughtf ully explore the challenges, against women in Liberia has remained challenges they encounter as well as a adaptati ons, rewards, and missteps alarmingly high since the end of the collecti ve call for hope and change. This involved in juggling dual roles. Scenes confl ict, even as the nature of violence fi lm is available online. 2010, 9 min. of Morales at work and at home, oft en has changed. What has also remained is humorously overlaid with her teenage the impact of such high rates of sexual United Nations daughter’s commentary, bring the violence. For many such survivors they ti nyurl.com/383h9ys dilemma up to date. 2009, 58 min. have been forced to live alongside UN1325 Engage Understand Act known perpetrators; whilst others have The animated fi lm UN1325 Engage Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente! been disowned by their families once it Understand Act intends to provoke Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002), visionary became known that they were sexually thought on the disproporti onate impact, Puerto Rican educator, acti vist, and assaulted. Alternati vely, other survivors inequaliti es and struggles faced by early proponent of bilingual educati on, have deliberately chosen not to return women in war. UN1325 was passed inspired multi ple generati ons of to their former homes so as to avoid unanimously and is the fi rst formal young people and fought for many such traumati c situati ons. For many and legally binding instrument from of the rights that people take for Liberian women and girls the war in the United Nati ons Security Council granted today. Unbowed by obstacles Liberia conti nues. 2010, 31 min. that requires parti es at war to: respect she encountered as a black Puerto women’s rights, protect women and Rican woman, she founded ASPIRA The Open Society Institute girls in confl ict, increase the infl uence to empower Puerto Rican youth, and ti nyurl.com/32zums3 of women in decision making and peace created other enduring leadership and Rights Not Rescue negoti ati ons and involve women in advocacy organizati ons in New York and Sex workers are subjected to widespread post-confl ict rebuilding. The resoluti on California, across the United States, and human rights abuses, including police underscores the responsibility to in Puerto Rico. In 1996, Dr. Pantoja was violence and unequal access to health protect women and girls from human awarded the presti gious Presidenti al care. Despite enormous challenges, rights abuses, including gender-based Medal of Freedom, the highest honor sex workers are organizing to protect violence. This fi lm calls for the urgent bestowed upon civilians in the US. In implementati on of UN1325. The this important documentary, Pantoja’s video is available on YouTube compelling story is told through never- and Facebook. before-seen home movies, archival footage, and personal passionate Women Make Movies testi mony from Pantoja herself and www.wmm.com some of her countless protégés, as A Crushing Love: Chicanas, well as her life partner. Highlighti ng Motherhood and Acti vism major landmarks in Pantoja’s biography A Crushing Love, Sylvia Morales’ and long, producti ve career, the fi lm sequel to her groundbreaking shows her profound commitment to history of Chicana women, transforming society, her pivotal role Chicana (1979), honors the in the Puerto Rican community’s fi ght achievements of fi ve acti vist to combat racism and discriminati on, Lati nas: labor organizer/farm and her pioneering work in securing a worker leader Dolores Huerta; bilingual voice in the US. An eloquent author/educator Elizabeth tribute to a remarkable woman, the fi lm “Beti ta” Marti nez; writer/ sheds new light on the Puerto Rican playwright/educator Cherrie community’s far-reaching triumphs. Moraga; civil rights advocate 2009, 53 min. 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Shot Yet all three women, their families, to crime, especially drug running, inside a Siberian prison camp and the and loved ones are sustained by hope. robbery and prosti tuti on. There are surrounding countryside, this absorbing The fi lm’s compelling, moving stories now 35 women’s prisons in Russia and documentary traces the individual of survival shed light on democracy’s the female incarcerati on rate is one of paths of three young women now at darker side and off er a look at the issues the highest worldwide. Director Maria diff erent points in their lives: Tati ana, facing women in post Soviet Russia. The Yatskova was inspired to make this fi lm whose parole hearing and early release DVD is in Russian, with English subti tles. aft er discovering an Internet item about are captured on fi lm; Natasha, living in 2007, 62 min. an annual beauty pageant staged by freedom with her family in a remote MMonographsonographs andand TechnicalTechnical ReportsReports

Afghanistan Research and politi cs, and explores feminist strategies public health problem, parti cularly for Evaluation Unit to confront the growing power of these the claimed associati on with sexually ti nyurl.com/35rn5th movements. Presenti ng a cross-regional, transmitt ed diseases such as HIV. This “The Impact of Microfi nance cross-religion synthesis, it seeks to study investi gates the associati on Programmes on Women’s Lives: a Case enable more eff ecti ve resistance between IPV and HIV status among Study in Parwan Women’s Parti cipati on and challenge to fundamentalists by Zimbabwean women. The study found in Microfi nance Changing Gender women’s rights acti vists and their allies that there is no universal defi niti on Relati ons in Afghanistan,” by Sogol in other movements. Building upon of what IPV entails, and no universal Zand, 2010, 52 pp. This case study is the views and experiences of women’s methods on how to measure it. In a part of a larger study that explores rights acti vists across the world, the additi on, study fi ndings indicate that women’s parti cipati on in diff erent three chapters in this report examine: both women and men perpetrate development programs and projects in the historical, economic, politi cal, violence against their partners. The Afghanistan. The current paper looks at and social factors that help religious author argues that without controlling women’s parti cipati on in a microfi nance fundamentalisms grow; the strategies for the sexual behavior of the (MF) program in a northeastern Afghan used by religious fundamentalist actors; respondent women, there is no way to village and explores its impact on feminist strategies of resistance and ascertain whether the observed HIV risk the gender relati ons both within the challenge through communicati ons, levels are mainly due to the eff ect of IPV, family and the community. The paper movement and alliance building; and or are due to other risk factors. illustrates that women’s parti cipati on promoti ng secularism, citi zenship and can be translated to changes in gender reinterpretati ons of religion. The report Centre for Alleviation of Poverty relati ons if and when other enabling also shares forward-looking analysis of through Secondary Crops factors are guaranteed. ways to enhance the eff ecti veness of Development in Asia and the feminist strategizing. Pacific (CAPSA) AWID ti nyurl.com/33y2ass ti nyurl.com/2wb5ogr Centre for Social Science Research, “Food Insecuriti es Faced by Women “Towards a Future without University of Cape Town (UCT) and Girl Children,” by Amitava Fundamentalisms: Analyzing Religious ti nyurl.com/3xzdv4k Mukherjee, 2010, 22 pp. Millions suff er Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist “Is Inti mate Partner Violence from food insecurity in South Asia. Responses,” by Cassandra Balchin, Associated with HIV Among Women Achieving food security means not just 2010, 115 pp. This report examines the in Zimbabwe?” by Tafara Ngwaru, ensuring that suffi cient food is available range of strategies used by religious 2010, 23 pp. Inti mate partner violence in the system, but also that everyone fundamentalists to infl uence society and (IPV) is now recognized as a signifi cant has economic, social, cultural and 6 physical access to it, and that food has and obstacles to the parti cipati on of to improve their economic situati on. adequate nutriti ve value. Achieving food women. For example, in the agricultural Recommendati ons include the building security also means people have the sector the paper shows that a lack of of data banks for gender-disaggregated right physiological conditi on to absorb farming techniques easily accessible to data. and uti lize food, which is conti ngent women is hindering progress and that upon access to potable water and the initi ati ves incorporati ng the private The Food and Agricultural availability of promoti ve and preventi ve sector may help to decentralize services Organization of the United Nations health care. and expand opportuniti es for women. (FAO) ti nyurl.com/349cdrl Chronic Poverty Research Centre “Farmers in a Changing Climate: Does ti nyurl.com/36nbtz4 Gender Matt er?” by Yianna Lambrou “Stemming Girls’ Chronic Poverty: and Sibyl Nelson, 2010, 82 pp. This Catalysing Development Change by report presents the fi ndings of research Building Just Social Insti tuti ons,” undertaken in six villages in two drought- by Nicola Jones et al., 2010, 156 pp. prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Childhood, adolescence and early Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. The study adulthood remain for many girls and used gender, insti tuti onal, and climate young women a period of deprivati on, analyses to document the trends in danger and vulnerability, resulti ng in climate variability men and women lack of agency and criti cal development farmers are facing and their responses defi cits. How to eff ecti vely include male to ensure food security in the context and female children in development of larger socioeconomic and politi cal agendas remains under-researched, challenges to their livelihoods and especially in debates around chronic wellbeing. The report’s fi ndings confi rm poverty, which have in general paid that there is a strong gender dimension relati vely limited att enti on to gender to the way in which climate variability is dynamics. This report addresses this experienced and expressed by farmers gap by placing girls and young women in their coping strategies to ensure center stage, highlighti ng ways in which their livelihoods and food security. It fi ve context-specifi c social insti tuti ons also demonstrates that gender analysis inform and determine their life enhances our understanding of what opportuniti es and agency. Based on the Overall, the Government of Rwanda is farmers perceive as risks and how they OECD’s Social Insti tuti ons and Gender found to be highly committ ed to the respond to climati c changes. Finally, Index (SIGI), these are: discriminatory cause of gender equality and women’s it makes recommendati ons for future family codes, son bias, limited resource empowerment, as demonstrated by research and for incorporati ng gender rights and enti tlements, physical its 2003 Consti tuti on, the approval of issues into adaptati on to long-term insecurity and restricted civil liberti es. the Nati onal Gender Policy and the climate change. establishment of Nati onal Gender East African Community Secretariat Machineries. The document argues that Freedom House and Republic of Rwanda signifi cant legal changes—for example ti nyurl.com/27molck ti nyurl.com/39vmnsy on women’s legal right to own land— “Hard-Won Progress and a Long Road “Gender and Community Development have the potenti al for a gender-sensiti ve Ahead: Women’s Rights in the Middle Analysis in Rwanda,” 2009, 43 pp. This transformati on of the Rwandan society. East and North Africa,” by S. Kelly and analysis by the East African Community The authors also fi nd that improvements J. Breslin (eds), 2010, 21 pp. This paper Secretariat looks at gender equality, have been made in the areas of summarizes the main fi ndings of the equity promoti on, and community women’s economic empowerment, 2010 editi on of Women’s Rights in the development in Rwanda. The document employment and poverty reducti on Middle East and North Africa (MENA). reviews the existi ng gender and based on the consti tuti on and enacted The country reports presented in the community development policies and laws. Credit and fi nance mechanisms editi on detail how women conti nue programs in areas that include trade, have been initi ated to empower women to face systemati c discriminati on in health, legal mechanisms, water, economically and move them out both laws and social customs. Deeply cultural concerns and empowerment of the poverty trap. However, much entrenched societal norms, combined of households and communiti es. Each sti ll needs to be done in the area of with conservati ve interpretati ons sector is considered separately with microfi nance, land acquisiti on and other of Islamic law, conti nue to relegate background informati on, progress asset ownership by women in order women to a subordinate status. They MMONOGRAPHSONOGRAPHS ANDAND TECHNICALTECHNICAL REPORTSREPORTS 7 are signifi cantly underrepresented in Map almost exclusively focuses on mortality jeopardize the MDG-4 child politi cs and the private sector, and economic empowerment as the sole mortality 2015 target. Using data completely absent from the judiciary. means to achieve gender equality, and from the 5,507 municipaliti es in 1991 They face gender-based discriminati on does not include a plan to build gender and 2000, the authors measured in personal-status laws—which regulate mainstreaming capacity in Bank country inequality trends in neonatal and under- marriage, divorce, child guardianship, offi ces. fi ve mortality across municipaliti es and inheritance—and gender-based characterized by their socioeconomic violence remains a signifi cant problem. IIED status in a period where major pro-poor The paper highlights the progress that ti nyurl.com/2wglb6t policies were implemented in Brazil to has been made in improving the status “Empowering Maasai Women in infer whether policies and interventi ons of women since 2005. Some countries Tanzania,” by Maanda Ngoiti ko, 2010, in newborn and child health have been have demonstrated a greater degree 24 pp. Maasai women are among the successful in reaching the poor as well of improvement in women’s lot than poorest and most marginalized groups as the bett er-off . The authors found that others. In some, women have become in Tanzanian society. A local women-led child health policies and interventi ons more visible parti cipants in public organizati on—the Pastoral Women’s have been more eff ecti ve in reaching the life, educati on, and business. They Council—works to improve the lives of bett er-off than the poor. Also, reducti on have gained more freedom to travel Maasai pastoralist women and children of mortality rates under age fi ve at independently, as laws requiring a by increasing their access to social the nati onal level has been achieved guardian’s permission for a woman to services and economic empowerment. by reducing these levels among the obtain a passport have been rescinded Research from the Pastoral Women’s bett er-off . Overall, poor municipaliti es in some countries. The paper identi fi es Council (PWC) in Tanzania, and the suff er from worse newborn and child fi ndings on several obstacles that Internati onal Insti tute for Environment health than richer municipaliti es and prevent women in the MENA region and Development (IIED) in the UK, the poor/rich gaps have increased. from enjoying the full range of politi cal, examines how the work of the PWC The authors’ analysis highlights the civil, economic, and legal rights. helps women to claim their rights and importance of monitoring progress address their basic livelihood needs. on MDGs at sub-nati onal levels and Gender Action ti nyurl.com/35e2m6n “Criti que of the World Bank’s Applying Gender Acti on Plan Lessons: A Three-Year Road Map for Gender Mainstreaming (2011-2013),” by Elizabeth Arend, 2010, 3 pp. The World Bank’s Road Map evaluates the Bank’s implementati on of the Gender Equality as Smart Economics (GAP) Acti on Plan (2007-2010), and presents a plan for the Bank to strengthen gender mainstreaming in its operati ons. The Road Map includes signifi cant improvements compared to the GAP, such as an increased focus on maternal mortality and reproducti ve health, as well as a more comprehensive plan for gender-focused monitoring and evaluati on. However, while the measuring inequality gaps to accurately Bank claims that gender “coverage” International Journal for Equity in target health and inter-sectoral policies. has increased since the GAP was fi rst Health Further eff orts are required to improve implemented in 2007, the Road Map sti ll bit.ly/8Zy87K the measurement and monitoring fails to respond to multi ple civil society “Sub-Nati onal Assessment of Inequality of trends in neonatal and under- criti cisms, including its lack of a human Trends in Neonatal and Child Mortality fi ve mortality at sub-nati onal level, rights framework, its incomprehensive in Brazil,” by Angelica Sousa, Kenneth parti cularly in developing countries and approach to reproducti ve health, and Hill, and Mario R Dal Poz, 2010, 10 pp. countries with large socioeconomic its lack of robust, transparent gender- Brazil’s large socioeconomic inequaliti es inequaliti es. related data. In additi on, the Road together with the increase in neonatal 8 MMONOGRAPHSONOGRAPHS ANDAND TECHNICALTECHNICAL REPORTSREPORTS The Institute for Inclusive Security to women’s roles in rebuilding Rwandan where women were guaranteed a ti nyurl.com/2uyqhho society. Ulti mately, this paper contends percentage of seats via a triple ballot “Sustaining Women’s Gains in Rwanda: that modern references to practi ces that on which voters choose one general The Infl uence of Indigenous Culture and focused on women’s value in Rwanda’s candidate, one female candidate, and Post-Genocide Politi cs,” by P. Uwineza pre-colonial era aim to generate support one youth candidate. The document and E. Pearson, 2009, 32 pp. In 2003, for women’s politi cal parti cipati on also shows how the encouragement Rwanda elected 48.8% women to its by emphasizing its conti nuity with from civil society and the internati onal lower house of parliament, giving it the traditi onal culture. This has the eff ect community helped realize the current world’s highest percentage of women of reducing potenti al oppositi on to gains. Internati onal actors supported in a nati onal legislature. This paper women’s politi cal empowerment. an inclusive consti tuti onal draft ing from the Insti tute for Inclusive Security process. Training for women leaders highlights the importance of policies, ti nyurl.com/yewj288 to help ensure women’s meaningful mechanisms, and insti tuti ons that can “Bringing Women into Governments,” parti cipati on in all levels of government provide a structural framework for 2009, 16 pp. This document consists of a also contributed. The document also sustaining women’s gains. For example, set of best practi ces on bringing women analyzes examples from Cambodia and the consti tuti onally mandated quota, into government, highlighti ng policies Afghanistan. which guards against reversals of and programs proven to increase women’s gains, is discussed. The paper women’s parti cipati on, as well as stories International Fund for Agricultural notes that the most important functi on of countries that have shown how these Development of these insti tuti ons is that they help mechanisms bett er involve women in www.ifad.org/gender/themati c/nepal fundamentally challenge gender culture all stages of peace-building processes. “A Study of Change in the Gender by normalizing women’s presence in The Rwandan example highlighted in Dynamics in the Hills Leasehold politi cal life. The authors show how the document shows how the majority Forestry and Forage Development mechanisms such as quotas help guard of survivors from the 1994 genocide Project in Nepal,” by Jeannett e D. against reversals of politi cal will and were women who had suff ered extreme Gurung and Kanchan Lama, 2009. This reinforce ongoing cultural shift s that are physical and emoti onal hardship. From study analyses the gender impact of reshaping gender relati ons in Rwanda. 1994 to 2003, the Rwandan Patrioti c the Hills Leasehold Forestry and Forage The paper provides a discussion of Front’s transiti onal government directed Development Project (HLFFDP) in various Rwandan cultural practi ces that a reform process to decentralize Nepal. The project was situated within either support gender equality, such as authority and broaden parti cipati on a society where gender ideologies that the deep respect for motherhood, and in government. Women’s politi cal privilege men are dominant and where other practi ces which have undermined engagement became a principle part relati onships between community gender equality such as bride price of the government’s agenda. In 2008, members and government workers or polygamy. It then analyzes how women were elected to 56% of seats in are oft en steeply hierarchical. These Rwandan acti vists and politi cians the lower house of parliament, making conditi ons present serious obstacles may refer to indigenous practi ces and Rwanda the fi rst and only country in the to the encouragement of men traditi ons as a way to promote women’s world to have a majority of women in its professionals within men-dominated empowerment—for example the parliament. A number of mechanisms organizati ons to carry out plans to traditi on of women as peacemakers for promoti ng women’s inclusion were achieve the parti cipati on, much less which is frequently invoked in relati on uti lized, including at the local level the empowerment, of uneducated rural women. Through the initi ati ves of a few hard workers, this change did occur, at least at some level, within the Department of Forestry and other line agencies associated with the HLFFDP in Nepal. How this occurred and the obstacles that remain in the path of the insti tuti onalizati on of this innovati ve approach are the topics of this study. The empirical data for this study were collected in Kathmandu and in Hetauda, Makawanpur district, over a period of two weeks from April 14 to 28, 2002, by two women members of a team of IFAD consultants. MMONOGRAPHSONOGRAPHS ANDAND TECHNICALTECHNICAL REPORTSREPORTS 9 University of Washington Institute and intraregional migrati on patt erns of eff orts should refrain from transforming for Health Metrics and Evaluation women shows that many of them fi nd models and studies into formulated bit.ly/bfINy4 work in agriculture and export-oriented approaches or prescripti ve measures “Increased Educati onal Att ainment sectors, where women’s relati vely in order to ensure that the innovati ve and its Eff ect on Child Mortality in 175 low wages consti tute a comparati ve character of ICTs remains in the hands Countries Between 1970 and 2009: A advantage. In these sectors, working and control of the users themselves. Systemati c Analysis,” by Emmanuela conditi ons are oft en exploitati ve and Women should not wait for policymaking Gakidou, Krycia Cowling, Rafael Lozano, employment is insecure and informal. alone to bridge the “digital divide” but and Christopher J.L. Murray, 2010, 15 pp. This report highlights that the hiring rather take acti on through ICTs to access In additi on to the inherent importance of (young, fl exible, cheap) women informati on sources and engage in the of educati on and its essenti al role in workers forms an explicit strategy of communicati on processes to achieve economic growth, educati on and health governments and big corporati ons in the their socioeconomic development goals. are strongly related. The authors updated export sector. The low wages of women previous systemati c assessments of and women migrant workers have been World Economic Forum educati onal att ainment, and esti mated fundamental to economic growth and ti nyurl.com/33ja2kx the contributi on of improvements in export-oriented development strategies “The Global Gender Gap Index 2010,” women’s educati on to reducti ons in in many developing countries. This by Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, child mortality in the past 40 years. study off ers entry points for an in-depth and Saadia Zahidi, 2010, 334 pp. The Methodology included compiling 915 discussion around these issues. It tries Index benchmarks nati onal gender censuses and nati onally representati ve to understand and bridge the gaps gaps on economic, politi cal, educati on surveys, and esti mati ng the mean between feminist analysis and practi ce and health based criteria, and provides number of years of educati on by age on both economic and migrati on issues. country rankings that allow for eff ecti ve and sex. By using a fi rst-diff erences It concludes by formulati ng a number of comparisons across regions and income model, the authors investi gated the recommendati ons looking at short-term groups, as well as over ti me. The associati on between child mortality objecti ves that strengthen the normati ve rankings are designed to create greater and women’s educati onal att ainment, and legal frameworks to safeguard awareness among a global audience of controlling for income per person women migrants’ human and labor the challenges posed by gender gaps and and HIV seroprevalence. They then rights, and long-term recommendati ons the opportuniti es created by reducing computed counterfactual esti mates seek structural change to the current them. The methodology and quanti tati ve of child mortality for those countries unsustainable and unjust economic analysis behind the rankings are intended for the years between 1970 and 2009. development model. to serve as a basis for designing eff ecti ve Interpretati on of the fi ndings shows measures for reducing gender gaps. The that a substanti al increase in educati on, World Bank Group Country Profi les contained in Part 2 of especially of women, and the reversal ti nyurl.com/2u6ux7q this Report give a more detailed picture of the gender gap have important “Informati on and Communicati on of the relati ve strengths and weaknesses implicati ons not only for health but Technologies for Women’s Socio- of each country’s performance compared also for the status and roles of women Economic Empowerment,” by S. with that of other nati ons. The fi rst in society. The conti nued increase in Melhem, N. Tandon and C. Morrell page of each profi le contains detailed educati onal att ainment even in some (eds), 2009, 96 pp. The advancement informati on on over 30 gender-related of the poorest countries suggests that of ICTs has brought new opportuniti es variables, presenti ng both the original rapid progress in terms of Millennium for knowledge sharing and knowledge data used to create the Index and other Development Goal 4 might be possible. gathering for both women and men. This variables that refl ect some of the legal WIDE report provides an overview of some of and social factors aff ecti ng gender ti nyurl.com/2uvykh6 the issues relati ng to women and ICTs in disparity in each country. “Women’s Labor Migrati on in the the developing world in contrast to the Context of Globalizati on,” by Anja K. developed world. The authors provide World Health Organization Franck & Andrea Spehar 2010, 83 pp. a brief overview of major themes for ti nyurl.com/36jem92 This publicati on off ers an introducti on women and ICTs, including issues of “The World Health Report—Health to important contemporary politi cal access and educati on for girls versus Systems Financing: the Path to analysis on the infl uence of globalizati on women, inclusion in ICT workforce, Universal Coverage,” 2010, 108 pp. on women´s work, mobility and qualifi cati ons and appeti te for ICT career Good health is essenti al to human empowerment. The authors highlight adopti on, and opportuniti es versus the welfare and to sustained economic and how globalizati on shapes women´s threat of ICTs for women’s lives. The social development. WHO’s Member labor migrati on. An analysis of internal authors recommend that implementati on States have set themselves the target

1100 MMONOGRAPHSONOGRAPHS ANDAND TECHNICALTECHNICAL REPORTSREPORTS of developing their health fi nancing HIV preventi on, treatment, care and 2008, a 52% decrease. systems to ensure that all people support by 2010, the WHO, UNICEF can use health services, while being and UNAIDS Secretariat have sought to Women’s Empowerment in Muslim protected against fi nancial hardship monitor key components of the health Contexts associated with paying for them. In this sector response to the HIV epidemic ti nyurl.com/25ek539 report, the World Health Organizati on worldwide. This report, the fourth “Women’s Empowerment in Muslim maps out what countries can do to annual progress report published since Contexts: Gender Poverty and modify their fi nancing systems so 2006, assesses the situati on at the end Democrati zati on from the Inside Out,” they can move more quickly toward of 2009, one year before the universal 2010, 47 pp. This report details the universal coverage and sustain the gains access target. It compiles informati on acti viti es of WEMC over the past several that have been achieved. The report from 183 of the 192 United Nati ons years. The WEMC Research Program builds on new research and lessons Member States, comprising 144 low- and Consorti um conducted research in learned from country experience. It middle-income countries and 39 high- Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran and China as provides an acti on agenda for countries income countries, on the status of the well as on Indonesian migrant women at all stages of development and global health sector response to HIV, workers and Afghan refugees. proposes ways that the internati onal progress made and remaining challenges community can bett er support eff orts to achieving universal access. in low-income countries to achieve universal coverage and improve health WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the outcomes. World Bank ti nyurl.com/4mb9hdk The WHO Collaborating Centre for “Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 Knowledge Translation and Health to 2008,” 2010, 55 pp. Millennium Technology Assessment in Health Development Goal 5, Target 5A, calls Equity for the reducti on of maternal mortality ti nyurl.com/3abuekj rati o (MMR) by three quarters “Equity-Oriented Toolkit for Health between 1990 and 2015. It has been Technology Assessment (HTA),” 2010, a challenge to assess the extent of 70 pp.The Equity-Oriented Toolkit is progress due to the lack of reliable based on a needs-based model of and accurate maternal mortality HTA. It provides tools that explicitly data–parti cularly in developing- consider health equity at each of country setti ngs where maternal the four steps of health technology mortality is high. As part of ongoing assessment: 1) Burden of Illness, 2) eff orts, the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA Community Eff ecti veness, 3) Economic and the World Bank revised and Evaluati on, 4) Knowledge Translati on improved earlier methods to esti mate and Implementati on. It also incorporates maternal mortality in 1990, 1995, concepts of health impact assessment 2000, 2005, and 2008; and developed within the HTA process. They are seeking methodology to present trends in suggesti ons on validated and widely maternal mortality from 1990 to 2008 disseminated HTA tools that explicitly at country, regional, and global levels. consider health equity and that are This report highlights the following: 1) relevant to the toolkit. These tools may 10 out of 87 countries with maternal be specifi c analyti cal methods. mortality rati os over 100 in 1990 are on track with an annual decline of WHO, UNAIDS, & UNICEF 5.5% between 1990 and 2008, while ti nyurl.com/3ysk4tx at the other extreme, 30 countries “Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up made insuffi cient or no progress since Priority HIV/AIDS Interventi ons in the 1990; 2) the study shows progress in Health Sector (Progress Report 2010),” sub-Saharan Africa where maternal 2010, 150 pp. Since 2006, when United mortality decreased by 26%; 3) In Nati ons Member States committ ed to Asia, the number of maternal deaths scaling up services and interventi ons is esti mated to have dropped from towards the goal of universal access to 315,000 to 139,000 between 1990 and

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It raises new questi ons about Despite the homogenizing eff ect of to natural resource management, the process of globalizati on, parti cularly globalizati on, identi ty politi cs have showing which ones have worked and about who the actors are (local gained signifi cance—numerous groups why; describe how researchers and people, the state, NGOs, multi nati onal have achieved politi cal goals and gained development practi ti oners navigate the companies) and the shift ing relati ons recogniti on based on, for example, their dynamics of complex socioecological amongst them. The book also challenges common gender, religion, ethnicity, systems; and analyze the outcomes the very concepts of gender, land, and or disability. Are each of these groups and impacts of development projects globalizati on. unique, or can comparisons be drawn and present comparati ve insights on among them? 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A central wide variety of disciplines to examine 2010, 246 pp. This book explores new theme is the people’s resistance to the linkages and impact of migrati on trends and drivers in natural resource global forces, frequently through an on gender and care regimes, human management and rural poverty in an insistence on the uniqueness of their resource fl ows, remitt ances, poverty, and age of rapid environmental, economic, livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, politi cal organizati ons by or for migrants. politi cal, and social change. Drawing the focus is on the social movements that have emerged Women and Change in Cyprus: in the context of Feminisms and Gender in Confl ict, struggles over land by Maria Hadjipavlou, 2010, 288 pp. rights concerning Following its entry into the EU in the extracti on of 2004, Cyprus has become a major Brazil nuts and migrant desti nati on. The infl ux of babaçu kernels migrant workers has introduced a in an increasingly more complex ethnic dynamic into globalized market. In a country traditi onally considered in Vietnam, the process light of its history of confl ict between of “decollecti vizing” its Greek and Turkish ethnic nati onals. rights to land Hadjipavlou argues that the focus on is examined Cyprus’s nati onal problem has long with a view to prevented Cypriot women to challenge understanding how Cyprus’s largely patriarchal and 1133 militaristi c order to pursue women’s a product of the social constructi on a unique picture of rural women’s life in rights and public visibility. While many of gender and other dimensions of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. 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Focusing on 2010, 250 pp. This book off ers case Hadjipavlou examines the experiences of the case of Nepal, from where 5,000 studies on sex traffi cking, migrati on, and women from Greek, Turkish, Armenian, to 7,000 Nepali girls and women are sex workers in the U.S., Iran, Denmark, Maronite and Lati n communiti es traffi cked each year primarily to India, European Economic Area, Hong Kong, and migrant domesti c workers in the Crawford assesses how the social Paris, China, Sarajevo, Southeast Asia, context of ethnonati onal confl ict, ethnic constructi on of traffi cking—the concept Mexico, French Colonial Cameroon, divisions, nati onalism and militarism, and its representati on in discourse—are and Spain. This book explores the lived and argues for a multi communal infl uenced by the dynamics of experiences of women in “traffi cked” feminist movement in Cyprus to bett er gender, caste, and the development terrains, and criti cally analyzes not promote women’s rights. establishment. The traffi cking victi m only the confl ati on of traffi cking with is portrayed as “backward;” however, sex work in internati onal and nati onal Women, War, and Violence: Personal she is “backward” in specifi c ways that discourses and its eff ects on migrant Perspecti ves and Global Acti vism, resonate with Nepal’s struggle to resist women, but also the global anti - edited by Robin Chandler, Linda K. Fuller, and yet encompass Western infl uence. traffi cking policy and the root causes and Lihua Wang, 2010, 240 pp. This book This view may lead to paradoxical eff ects for the undocumented migrati on and draws upon a wide global community of in which eff orts to protect girls and employment. The book pinpoints: the acti vists, scholars, NGOs, and clinicians women instead restrict their human relati onships between the human rights to expand the defi niti on of how war rights. Rather than seeing women as of the vulnerable populati on and the and its violent underpinnings aff ect universalized victi ms, Crawford assesses state approaches to traffi cking; the everyday women and families around how the social constructi on of traffi cking eff ects upon the migrant populati on as a the world. Benefi ti ng from fi rst-hand in a parti cular society aff ects girls and result of the ways in which the state and research and defi niti ve assessments of women who live in that society. internati onal policies defi ne “traffi cked gender-based violence interventi ons, persons” and “undocumented it invites diverse perspecti ves of Rural Women in the Soviet Union migrants;” the denial of human rights of interdisciplinary documentati on and and Post-Soviet Russia, edited by sex workers, anti -prosti tuti on policy, and storytelling beyond traditi onal academic Irina Mukhina, 2010, 226 pp. Filling the complicated intersecti ons of forced writi ng. Refl ecti ng on anti -militarist a signifi cant gap in the literature on and voluntary labor and migrati ons at acti vism, structural violence, post-war rural studies and gender studies of the nati onal and internati onal level. The atrociti es, government commissions and twenti eth century Russia, this book authors in this volume suggest more policy soluti ons, this book sheds new off ers a comprehensive overview of eff ecti ve anti -traffi cking interventi ons light on war-related gender oppression regulati ons concerning rural women: that will ameliorate social justi ce and at the intersecti ons traditi onal academic their employment patt erns; marriages, human rights violati ons of the migrant writi ng. Refl ecti ng on anti -militarist divorces and family life; and issues with populati ons. acti vism, structural violence, post-war health and raising children. Rural lives in atrociti es, government commissions and the Soviet Union were oft en dramati cally Women in the Middle East and North policy soluti ons, this book sheds new diff erent from the common narrati ve of Africa: Agents of Change, edited by light on war-related gender oppression the Soviet history, and even during the Fati ma Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji, 2010, at the intersecti ons of race, nati onal Khrushchev “Thaw” in the late 1950s 204 pp. This book examines the positi on identi ty, religion, and social class and the and early 1960s, rural women were of women in the contemporary Middle need to promote a new paradigm of the excluded from its reforms and liberati ng East and North Africa (MENA) region. equality of men and women. policies. The author, a leading expert Although it is culturally diverse, this in the fi eld of rural gender history in region shares many commonaliti es with Routledge Russia, includes material from previously relati on to women that are strong, deep, www.routledge.com unavailable or unpublished collecti ons and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, Sex Traffi cking in South Asia: Telling and archives, interviews, sociological a culturally strong sense of religion, Maya’s Story, by Mary Crawford, 2009, research and oral traditi ons. Overall, a smooth coexistence of traditi on 208 pp. This book is a criti cal feminist the book is a history of all rural women, and modernity, a transiti onal stage in analysis of sex traffi cking. Arguing from ordinary farm girls to agrarian development, and multi lingualism/ that traffi cking in girls and women is professionals to prosti tutes and paints multi culturalism. Experts from within

1144 BBOOKSOOKS the region and from outside provide discussions that view the lives of Muslim operati onal level. Contributors to the both theoreti cal angles and case studies, girls through a lens of repression and book draw on experience and research drawing on fi eldwork from Egypt, Oman, poverty within the patriarchal Islamic from around the world on the nexus of Palesti ne, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, community. Based on extensive original gender, age, violence, and small arms in Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Addressing research, this book portrays a diff erent developing and developed countries. the historical, sociocultural, politi cal, and underrepresented perspecti ve economic, and legal issues in the region, of young Muslim girls in the bustees UNIFEM with Women from the Asia- the chapters cover fi ve major aspects of (shanty towns) of Kolkata. Through a Pacific Network (WAPN) women’s agency: politi cal agency, civil series of personal narrati ves, photos, www.unifem.org society acti vism, legal reform, cultural and artwork, it demonstrates that Diamonds: Stories of Women from the and social agencies, and religious and in spite of the dominant discourse Asia-Pacifi c Network of People Living symbolic agencies. Bringing to light oft en surrounding their lives, the consumpti on with HIV, edited by Susan Paxton, marginalized topics and issues, the book and behavior patt erns of young 2009, 118 pp. This is a compilati on of underlines the importance of respecti ng women in these bustees challenge the the personal narrati ves of ten women specifi citi es when judging societi es and monolithic representati ons of what and one girl who are HIV-positi ve. hints at possible ways of promoti ng the it means to be a Muslim girl in Indian The publicati on is accompanied by a MENA region. society. It explores the ways in which the documentary that focuses on four of young Muslim women live, manipulate, these stories. Like diamonds, formed Women’s Movements in Asia: and resist the stereotypes of Islamic under immense pressure to become Feminisms and Transnati onal Acti vism, femininity by carefully negoti ati ng the the strongest and most brilliant natural edited by Mina Roces and Louise risks and performing multi ple identi ti es substance known on earth, these Edwards, 2010, 288 pp. This book is inspired by modernity, globalizati on and, women have overcome incredible a comprehensive study of women’s most of all, Bollywood culture. challenges to emerge as shining acti vism across Asia. With chapters examples. Diamonds plots the key writt en by leading internati onal United Nations University Press moments in the lives of these women, experts, it provides a full overview www.unu.edu/unupress from diagnosis to the realizati on that of the history of feminism, as well as Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts their voices could be part of the change, the current context of the women’s of Small Arms and Light Weapons, highlighti ng each woman’s journey movements in 12 countries: the edited by Vanessa Farr, Henri Myrtti nen, to empowerment. Collecti vely, they Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Albrecht Schnabel, 2009, 480 pp. emerge as a powerful voice in the global Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Every day, small arms and light weapons dialogue on AIDS. This book is available Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, (SALW) kill, wound, and threaten for free and can be used for advocacy, Korea, India and Pakistan. For each of millions of adults and children. Due to training and educati on in the region. The these countries, the manner in which their widespread availability, mobility, documentary is also available online. feminism changes according to cultural, and ease of use, prolifi c SALW have politi cal, economic, and religious factors become central to maintaining social University of Illinois Press is explored. The contributors investi gate dislocati on, destabilizati on, insecurity, www.press.uillinois.edu how nati onal feminisms are infl uenced and crime in the build-up to war, Contesti ng Archives: Finding Women in by transnati onal factors, such as the during warti me, and in the aft ermath the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, women’s movements in other countries, of confl ict. Small arms are misused Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth colonialism, and internati onal agencies. within domesti c setti ngs, as well as in Perry, 2010, 248 pp. The contributors Each chapter also considers what Asian public spaces, aff ecti ng everyone in the challenge the assumpti on that an feminists have contributed to global community without regard to sex or archive is a neutral, immutable, and theoreti cal debates on the woman age. The impact of these weapons can historical repository of informati on. questi on, the key successes and failures be vastly diff erent for women and men Instead, these historians view it as a of the movements, and what needs to and for girls and boys. However, careful place where decisions are made about be addressed in the future. considerati on of gender and age is rare whose documents—and therefore in the formulati on of small arms policy, whose history—is important. Finding Young Muslim Women in India, by of planning small arms collecti on or that women’s voices and their texts Kabita Chakraborty, 2011, 192 pp. The control, or even in small arms research. were oft en obscured or lost altogether, reality for marginalized Muslim girls in To counter the eff ects of prolifi c SALW, they have developed many new the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutt a) their role in gender- and age-specifi c methodologies for creati ng unique in India is far more complex than the violence must be more deeply analyzed archives and uncovering more evidence one that is oft en constructed during and the results applied at the policy and by reading documents “against the BBOOKSOOKS 1155 grain,” weaving together many layers dozens of women to examine multi ple are politi cal, personal, and creati ve of informati on to reveal complexiti es, forms of violence and how it interrelates narrati ves unfolding within both the and working collecti vely to reconstruct with their lives. Gender-based violence pages of a book and the spaces of a life. the lives of women in the past. Global conti nues to blight the landscape of The range of chapters maps a shift from in scope, this volume demonstrates South American urban centers, and this the daughter-centric stories that have innovati ve research on diverse women book unravels the personal experiences dominated the maternal traditi on to the from the sixteenth century to the of those impacted. Alcalde explores matrilineal and matrifocal perspecti ves present in Spain, Mexico, Tunisia, India, the everyday lives of these women that have emerged over the last few Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the before, during, and aft er an abusive decades as the mother’s voice moved United States. Addressing gender, race, relati onship to explore the impact of, from silence to speech. class, nati onalism, transnati onalism, and response to, structural, insti tuti onal, and migrati on, these essays’ subjects and interpersonal violence. Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir include indigenous women of colonial of Childhood in Jamaica, by Yvonne Mexico, Muslim slave women, African Wilfrid Laurier University Press Shorter Brown, 2010, 187 pp. This book American women of the early twenti eth www.wlupress.wlu.ca chronicles life stories of growing up in century, Bengali women acti vists of Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains pre-independence India, wives and Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s both personal experience and history. daughters of Qajar rulers in Iran, women Literatures, edited by Elizabeth The author’s coming of age parallels industrial workers in communist Poland Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly, 2010, the politi cal stages of Jamaica’s moving and socialist Mozambique, and women 387 pp. This collecti on examines from the richest Crown colony of Great club owners in modern Las Vegas. how authors use textual spaces to Britain to an independent nati on within accept, negoti ate, resist, or challenge the Briti sh Commonwealth of Nati ons. Vanderbilt University Press traditi onal concepti ons of mothering Taking up the haunti ng memories of www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com and maternal roles, and how these texts childhood, along with her astonishment The Woman in the Violence: Gender, off er alternati ve practi ces and visions at persistent racial marginalizati on, both Poverty, and Resistance in Peru, by for mothers. Further, it illuminates how locally and globally, the author sets out M. Cristi na Alcalde, 2010, 264 pp.This textual representati ons both refl ect and to construct a narrati ve that at once book draws on fi eldwork conducted in help to defi ne or (re)shape the realiti es explains her own origins in the former Lima, Peru, one of the largest citi es in of women and families by examining slave society of Jamaica and traces the Lati n America, and the life stories of how mothering and being a mother outsider status of Africa and its peoples. SStudytudy OOpportunitiespportunities

University of the Witwatersrand core course, students choose from 12 or www.serd.ait.ac.th/academic/academic_ and Bard College more electi ves exploring human rights programs/gds.php Gender and Development Studies Internati onal Human Rights Exchange from the perspecti ve of a variety of (GDS) is a center for graduate studies, (IHRE) academic disciplines. IHRE also opens up research and outreach in the School Deadline: March 1 possibiliti es for substanti ve parti cipati on www.ihre.org in human rights work. Students intern of Environment, Resources and The Internati onal Human Rights with an NGO working on contemporary Development. Within the overall gender Exchange (IHRE) is the world’s only full- rights in post-apartheid South Africa. specifi c framework, GDS highlights semester, multi disciplinary program in Students also explore human rights both the need for specialized academic human rights. The program is housed challenges in rural South Africa through degree awarding studies in gender and at the University of the Witwatersrand a Community Human Rights Workshop, development, and the integrati on of in Johannesburg, South Africa and visit the Apartheid Museum and other gender analysis and gender relati ons is a joint venture with Bard College. relevant sites, and att end guest lectures perspecti ves in AIT’s other fi elds of Each year, starti ng in July and ending from human rights experts from South study. GDS off ers graduate level courses in November, students and faculty Africa and around the world. and provides substanti al input to from Africa and North America come student’s dissertati on research. Short together to parti cipate in a deep and Asian Institute of Technology courses and workshops are also off ered multi faceted intellectual engagement in Gender and Development Studies on gender planning and gender analysis human rights. In additi on to a required Deadline: July 31 in various development fi elds. 1166 The graduate specializati on in Women’s and Gender Studies is an electi ve additi on to Master’s and doctoral degree programs at Michigan State University. Once admitt ed to their chosen department, students may enroll in this program. Jointly sponsored by the College of Arts and Lett ers and the College of Social Science, the specializati on is designed to provide opportuniti es for graduate students to obtain a comprehensive, cross/ interdisciplinary academic experience in women and gender and to foster the growth of interdisciplinary research and teaching on women and gender. Emphasis is given to understanding the diversity of women’s lives nati onally and globally. The graduate specializati on is open to graduate students with adequate undergraduate preparati on in women and gender. Graduate students interested in enrolling in the specializati on should contact the Center for Gender in Global Context at [email protected].

University of the West Indies Gender and Development Studies Deadline: Rolling www.uwi.edu/cgds/teaching.aspx The Insti tute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) is a multi disciplinary department of the University of the West Indies (UWI), and is engaged in teaching, research, outreach and publicati on on issues relati ng to women, men/masculiniti es Birzeit University policies; developing the capability to and gender, parti cularly in Caribbean place programs and draw up policies for Master’s Program in Gender and society. The program off ers graduate a wide range of sectors within society Development and undergraduate courses of study. In in order to shape a developmental Deadline: Summer 2011 its outreach acti viti es, IGDS embraces htt p://ti nyurl.com/4hnrquh process uti lizing an in depth research insti tuti ons and organizati ons at all The Insti tute of Women’s Studies and methodology that reveals the needs and levels throughout the region, sensiti zing the Insti tute of Law have combined obstacles faced by these sectors within educators, policy makers and the eff orts to present an academic program Palesti nian society; and developing the general public, and providing strategies that leads to a Master’s degree in capability to envision the legislati ve to enhance awareness of the criti cal the fi eld of gender and development. process and its conti nuous impact on role played by the study of gender in Program foci include widening and social and developmental policies. personal life and nati onal development. deepening the scope of their theoreti cal Gender and Development Studies and conceptual knowledge of gender, Michigan State University programs are off ered at several UWI development and legal issues; Graduate Specializati on in Women’s campuses. For more informati on, developing methodological capabiliti es and Gender Studies contact [email protected]. that depend on criti cal analysis in Deadline: Rolling Applicati ons evaluati ng developmental and legislati ve htt p://ti nyurl.com/4f56x6c SSTUDYTUDY OPPORTUNITIESOPPORTUNITIES 1177 GGrantsrants aandnd FFellowshipsellowships

Consultative Group on commitment to increase Africa-focused using ICT. Funded acti viti es include International Agricultural Research research and publicati ons on sexuality training, publicati ons, broadcasts, (CGIAR)–Gender & Diversity issues, as well as build links between theater producti ons, promoti on Program scholars and practi ti oners working in materials, and other approaches to African Women in Agricultural Research this area in Africa. The fellowships of 1 strengthen women’s use of ICT for rural and Development to 4 months will be based at the ARSRC’s development. Deadline: Rolling offi ce in Lagos, Nigeria. The call targets www.awardfellowships.org fellows from African countries. Visiti ng Forum for African Women Female farmers play a vital role in fellows will be expected to contribute Educationalists (FAWE) African agriculture, accounti ng for 60 to to the building of knowledge through Gender in African Educati on 80 percent of the agricultural workforce. criti cal thinking and research, and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship However, agricultural research and facilitate informati on and knowledge Deadline: Unspecifi ed higher educati on are disproporti onately disseminati on through seminars and www.fawe.org led by men. There is an urgent need publicati ons. During their stay at the The Forum for African Women for a greater representati on of women Regional Centre, fellows will review Educati onalists (FAWE) is pleased to in the fi eld of agricultural science and several ARSRC materials, make at least a announce a call for applicati ons for the technology in sub-Saharan Africa. presentati on and complete a publishable Gender in African Educati on Research Female scienti sts, professors and paper focusing on conceptual, Fellowship. The fellowship program senior managers off er diff erent insights contextual or methodological issues targets female scholars who have and perspecti ves to help research in the fi eld of sexuality. This may be either completed or are completi ng insti tutes to more fully address the an opportunity for scholars who need doctoral study, and aims to provide unique and pressing challenges of serene and equipped working space to scholars with an opportunity to conduct both female and male farmers in the write their publicati on. The sponsorship research while contributi ng to building region. AWARD off ers tailored, two-year covers the fellow’s (not including African research capacity on gender in fellowships designed to fast-track the dependants) roundtrip, economy airfare educati on in Africa. The fellowship will careers of African women scienti sts and/or ground transportati on, single- accommodate one female researcher and professionals delivering pro-poor room accommodati on, health insurance per year who has completed or is in the agricultural research and development and a monthly sti pend to cover living fi nal stages of doctoral study. The role that benefi ts rural communiti es, expenses, supplies, communicati on and of the fellow will be to coordinate the especially women. The program selects local transportati on costs. Questi ons research initi ati ve with the following women scienti sts already working should be addressed to [email protected]. objecti ves: establish a research arm closely with the rural poor on tackling that can generate reliable, up to date poverty and hunger; focuses on career Association for Progressive qualitati ve and quanti tati ve data on development, adding value to existi ng Communications gender in African educati on; develop academic training programs; nourishes Gender, Agriculture, and Development a research agenda that supports its the talent pipeline for agricultural R&D in the Informati on Society (GenARDIS) evidence-based advocacy initi ati ves through carefully tailored fellowship Deadline: Rolling and that will be carried out through a packages for women with bachelor’s, genardis.apcwomen.org/en collaborati ve gender research network, master’s and doctoral degrees; and GenARDIS makes small grants to specifi cally focused on gender and engages with African leaders of address gender issues in informati on educati on research; and act as a agricultural R&D, both men and women, and communicati on technologies (ICT). clearinghouse for gender research to raise awareness and build networks. The grants support agricultural and funding from various funding partners. rural development in the ACP Countries Africa Regional Sexuality Resource (African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c Centre (ARSRC) regions). Projects in GenARDIS promote Visiti ng Fellows Programme innovati ve use of ICTs by or for rural Deadline: Rolling women to improve the wellbeing of www.arsrc.org/training/fellows/index.htm their families and communiti es. Grants The Visiti ng Fellows Programme has address the constraints encountered been established to further the ARSRC’s by rural women with respect to

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Australian Association for www.feminist-cultural-acti vism.net our community grow. Toward these Caribbean Studies (AACS) Can feminist art save the world, and goals, parti cipants and presenters are Caribbean Narrati ves of Race, Place and if so, how? This carnival will be part encouraged to play with the variety of Migrati on festi val, part conference. Arti sts, meanings of “generati on.” February 16-18 acti vists, and academics from many sites.google.com/site/austassoccaribstudies nati ons will come together to learn University of Texas at San Antonio The AACS will host their ninth biennial from each other, celebrate creati vity, Women’s Studies Institute Conference in Newcastle, Australia. and advance feminist work. The event Black and Brown Feminisms in Hip Hop Interdisciplinary papers are welcome, encourages cultural modes addressing Media especially those that focus on cultural issues of power and gender. The March 4-5 studies, historical approaches, fi lm and carnival’s “art” might include media ti nyurl.com/37ze2h8 television, and gender and sexuality such as community theater, fi lm, poetry, This interdisciplinary conference will studies. For further informati on, please music, blogs, dance, writi ng, texti les, feature unpublished work on women contact Dr. Rhona Hammond (rhona. digital fi cti on, zines, podcasts, comedy, in Hip Hop to exchange ideas, share [email protected].) or Dr. Karina performance, puppetry, frockmaking, research, and initi ate a sustained Smith ([email protected]). weaving, painti ng, gardening, cooking, conversati on by and about Black and pott ery, cartoons, sketching, sculpture, Brown women in Hip Hop media. Vital University of Illinois at Urbana- posters, comics, and even Twitt er. to this discussion is att enti on to the Champaign Att endees will explore questi ons about blurring lines between Black and Lati na Twelft h Annual Graduate Symposium what kinds of changes are needed in feminist studies and a dialogue that on Women’s and Gender History the world right now and how needs att empts to understand an interweaving March 3-5 and responses might vary in diff erent history of objecti fi cati on, struggle, and ti nyurl.com/2wwubtt cultures. Other questi ons to be potenti al for agency. How do we read This year’s theme, “Genealogies,” addressed include: Can feminist art Black and Brown women in Hip Hop references two trends in the fi eld—the practi ces aff ect people in order to make culture? What readings of Black and emergence of kinship and the family changes? Are art practi ces enough in Brown women other than conventi onal as tools for interpreti ng the past, on themselves, or does art need to move black feminist readings and Lati na the one hand, and the conti nuing people to social acti on in order to be feminist analyses are cogent? What importance of the method Foucault worthwhile? How does Third Wave theories enable those readings? A called “genealogy,” on the other—and Feminism deploy arti sti c and craft select number of accepted papers will seeks to ask a questi on about the practi ces as part of its philosophy? be included in a one-day, academic connecti ons (and contenti ons) that What kinds of feminist community art conference at the University of Texas might unite them. How might a history practi ces are eff ecti ve, and what does at San Antonio as a part of UTSA’s of the family be aff ected by Foucault’s “eff ecti ve” mean? celebrati on of Women’s History Month insistence on refusing origin stories, on March 4 with a Hip Hop performance and how might the new scholarship Association for Women in from local Texas as well as nati onal hip on inti macy-kinship infl uence an Psychology hop arti sts on the evening of March 5. understanding of the instability and Generati ng Feminisms: Building This conference will be an opportunity disconti nuity of history? Is it possible, in Partnerships, Recognizing Conti nuity, for presenters to share views and other words, to construct a genealogy and Growing Community Across the concerns on the growing intersecti ons of genealogy? In gathering together Feminist Generati on(s) between Black and Brown women in hip what we hope will be a geographically, March 3-6 hop culture. For more informati on, email temporally, and disciplinarily diverse awp2011.blogspot.com [email protected]. body of papers, the conference will The theme of the 2011 conference is create opportuniti es for dialogue and intended to honor and refl ect on the Middle Tennessee State University’s discussion across these diff erent fi elds. many ways in which feminists have Women’s and Gender Studies collaborated in the ever-diversifying, Program University of York’s Centre for ever-changing projects of feminisms. Global Discourses in Women’s and Women’s Studies This year’s conference is centered on Gender Studies A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Acti vism building partnerships, recognizing the March 24-26 March 3-5 conti nuity of our ideas, and helping www.mtsu.edu/womenstu/conference 1199 Scholars, acti vists, nonprofi t alternati ves. The Conference will take professionals, students, and others place at Georgia State University. who engage issues of social justi ce are invited to gather to promote University of Missouri Kansas City feminist perspecti ves in examining and the American Men’s Studies connecti ons between local/nati onal Association and global issues relati ng to gendered Men, Masculiniti es and the Common existence. The keynote speaker will be Good in an Era of Economic Uncertainty internati onally-renowned Cambodian March 31-April 3 sex slave trade survivor and anti -human mensstudies.org/?page_id=941 traffi cking acti vist Somaly Mam, one of The Nineteenth Annual “Men and Time Magazine’s “100 Most Infl uenti al Masculinity Conference” of the People of 2009.” The Conference will American Men’s Studies Associati on include a professional development will take place March 31-April 3 at workshop and a fi lm series. the University of Missouri Kansas City. Pre-conference workshops Southeastern Women’s Studies will take place March 31. Professor German Historical Institute of Association Michael Kimmel (SUNY Stony Brook), Warsaw Structural Adjustments: Queering author of The Politi cs of Manhood Dynamizati on of Gender Roles Privati zati on, Framing Disaster and The Invisible Sex: Masculinity in in Warti me: An East European March 24-26 Contemporary America, will keynote. Perspecti ve on World War II and its sewsa.nwsa.org/sewsa2011.html Aft ermath NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender Recent devastati on in Haiti and Chile, March 31-April 2 and its resonance with the breached and Sexuality ti nyurl.com/34uem7l levees in New Orleans, compel us Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian The East European theatre of war is to put these events in sociopoliti cal Masculiniti es known to have been, in many ways, context. Crumbled edifi ces, fl ooded March 31-April 1 quite disti nct from the other theatres and abandoned neighborhoods, and mensstudies.org/?p=829 of war: most East European countries sensati onalized images of the newly This conference will focus on both experienced not one, but two occupying displaced surrounded by piles of rubble tracing and revisiti ng archetypes of forces during the war, being either speak less to the physical weaknesses of masculinity from medieval Iberia to occupied by NS-Germany and Soviet buildings and more to the bankruptcy the present, by placing them in the Union, or being occupied by Germany of social insti tuti ons that determine context of the divergent counter-images and then “liberated” by the Soviet which populati ons and communiti es that exist, and have always existed, Union with the eff ect of becoming part will be most aff ected. As with offi cial below the radar. The conference will of the socialist bloc in the Cold War. narrati ves of war and militarizati on be especially concerned with the While numerous studies have explored (cast as “just” or “necessary”), or explorati on of alternati ve models the eff ects of the occupying regimes development and democracy (cast as for being a man which examine or on the respecti ve societi es, the impact “progress” or “inclusion”), the recourse challenge the traditi onal links between of World War II on gender relati ons to the framework of “natural disasters” machismo and Hispanic culture, and/ has generally been treated as a rather overlooks the realiti es of systemic or suggest more egalitarian models of marginal issue. This conference intends inequaliti es, and their gendered, manhood. Papers will investi gate both not only to piece the existi ng puzzle sexualized, racialized, and classed the constructi on and deconstructi on together, but to explore the interplay of dimensions. The theme sheds light on of masculinity in Iberian cultures and World War II and gender roles in East such issues as the structural adjustment literatures, from any genre and historical Europe in a broad context. programs that have devastated period, from diff erent disciplines and indebted economies, the impact on methodological perspecti ves. The Associated Colleges of the South’s buildings of these (un)natural disasters, conference is parti cularly interested Gender Studies/Women’s Studies and the shift ing spaces resulti ng from in revisions of Iberian masculiniti es, and the University of Richmond gentrifi cati on and privati zati on. SEWSA especially as they are manifested in Emancipatory Knowledge: Women’s 2011 will bring together scholars Catalonia, the Basque country, and and Gender Studies NOW interested in asking how feminist, Galicia, in non-Christi an cultures in the April 1-2 womanist, and queer modes of analysis Iberian Peninsula, and in the Americas, ti nyurl.com/2voj997 can intervene in these narrati ves and including Lati no cultures in the U.S. and This conference will explore feminism open up possibiliti es for revisioning Canada. and issues in educati on. The theme is 2200 CCONFERENCESONFERENCES inspired by the work of keynote speaker ineff ecti ve, or simply to look the other Motherhood Studies Meets Other Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, sociologist, way? Why are so many contemporary Disciplines; When Documentary Film and feminist scholar, and author of Black societi es complicit in, or tolerant of, this Pornography Collide; LGBTQ Identi ti es Feminist Thought. Dr. Collins is a social human tragedy? What is the history of in Lati n America; Homosexual Women theorist whose research and scholarship human traffi cking or modern slavery, in Italian Literature, Cinema and other have examined issues of race, gender, including eff orts to address these issues? Media; (Re)Imagining Expatriates: social class, sexuality and nati on. Queer Transnati onalisms in American The conference will also feature a University of Missouri St. Louis Literature; Transnati onal Women’s plenary session on Feminist Media led Race, Gender and Sexuality in the State Writi ng in 20th-Century Europe; Not by Courtney E. Marti n and Samhita of Missouri Through My Skin: Sexuality and the Mukhopadhyay. April 7-8 Female Body in East-Central European ti nyurl.com/37ramgg Film; Contemporary Black Briti sh Cornell University Department of This two-day conference will confront Women’s Writi ng; and Womanhood Music and interrogate the gendered, raced, and freedom of choice: rethinking Arab Music, Gender, and Globalizati on and/or sexualized positi ons of individuals women as keepers of the traditi on. April 1-2 and groups in politi cal, legal, historical, www.musicgenderglobalizati on.org social, educati onal, and creati ve arenas Feminism and Teaching Network This conference seeks to examine the in the state of Missouri from the Feminism and Teaching Symposium relati onship between music, gender, and pre-colonial period through the 1820 April 8-9 globalizati on. While att enti on to gender Missouri Compromise to the present feminismandteaching.org and sexuality has becomemainstream day. Situated in the middle of the U.S., This interdisciplinary symposium held at in Western music, academic research comprised of the old South, the fronti er the University of Notti ngham will explore oft en isolates this issue from those West, and lower Midwestern values and the relati onships between feminism and of globalism, imperialism, travel, and cultures, Missouri is an intersecti onal teaching. Presentati ons will be made by migrati on. Anthropological research border state. Its ongoing debates on postgraduates, early career researchers, examining the fl ow of music too oft en race, gender and sexuality have oft en led teachers, arti sts and acti vists of all neglects Western arti culati ons of gender to compromised positi ons, negoti ati ons genders. and sexuality. The conference will focus and agreements that mark on academia that has combined these the sites of multi ple, oft en three areas, answering questi ons such as muffl ed purposes and how can we develop accounts of cultural meanings that have had globalizati on in which “gender” does unsett ling or sustaining not simply act as a placeholder for “the ramifi cati ons for individuals, feminine” or “the local” and how music, groups, and the state. gender, and globalizati on can be taught together or in relati on to one another. Northeast Modern Language Association University of Denver/Iliff School of (NeMLA) Theology NeMLA 2011 Conventi on Conference on Religion, Human April 7-10 Traffi cking, and Modern Slavery www.nemla.org/conventi on/ April 1-3 index.html www.denverconference.net The NeMLA 2011 What is human traffi cking exactly? Why Conventi on will include is it a central and increasingly compelling a wide variety of agenda not only for internati onal justi ce topics and disciplinary agencies, but for women’s groups, perspecti ves. Proposed latt er-day aboliti onists, religious groups, sessions include: Women, and NGOs? What are some of the Love, and Eroti cism in identi fi able factors and causes that have Lati n American Poetry; propelled the global spread of human Queer Ecocriti cism and traffi cking? What insti tuti ons, ideologies, Literature; Transnati onal or social mechanisms are primarily to Relati ons: Sexuality and blame? What causes many governments Body Traffi c across the or enforcement agencies to be Global Village; When CCONFERENCESONFERENCES 2211 University of Sunderland Centre ti nyurl.com/38nbzy5 society. “The Unacceptable” Conference, for Research in Media and Cultural The theme this year is “Gender and held in Sydney, Australia, will seek to Studies and the Women’s Film Educati on: Past, Present and Future.” gain this understanding. Issues will History Network Conference att endees and presenters include body modifi cati on, homophobia, Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing will “take stock” of the fi eld, looking obesity, pornography, sexual subculture, Cinema Past and Future backwards and forwards in order to and racism. April 13-15 assess what has previously consti tuted htt p://ti nyurl.com/4dj22v9 the fi eld of gender and educati on, what Ohio State’s English Department This conference seeks to assemble is shaping it now and what it may look Women Reading/Writi ng the (King researchers, archivists, librarians, like in the future. James) Bible fi lmmakers, website and database May 5-7 designers to discuss developments in Simon Fraser University’s kingjamesbible.osu.edu women’s involvement in fi lmmaking Department of Gender, Sexuality, The English Department at The and fi lm history. Issues explored will and Women’s Studies Ohio State University will host an include gender-oriented fi lm research, The Medicalizati on of Sex internati onal conference on the 400th the impact of women on cinema as April 29-30 anniversary of the publicati on of the audiences, women’s careers in the www.sfu.ca/gsws/Medicalizati onofSex.html King James (or Authorized) Version of fi lmmaking process, relati onship of fi lm Topics will include sexual “normalcy” the Bible. The conference will focus on to feminism and women’s history, cross- and deviancy, sexual “functi on” and the making of the KJV in the context nati onal connecti ons and comparisons, dysfuncti on, sexual “hygiene” and of Reformati on Bible translati on and and using fi lm to teach women’s issues polluti on, the sexuopharmaceuti cal printi ng as well as on the KJV’s long and history. The conference will also industry, sexology, queer sexualiti es, and literary and cultural infl uence from consider how globalizati on, digital intersexualiti es. Milton and Bunyan to Faulkner, Woolf, media, and changes in archiving and and Toni Morrison. Papers may focus on databasing may change the future of Macquarie University’s Department authors from the seventeenth century to women’s fi lm history. The conference of Media, Music, Communication the present. Topics might include modes will take place in Sunderland, UK. and Cultural Studies and methods of allusion and adaptati on, “The Unacceptable” Conference biblical women, and negoti ati ng the The Association for Theatre in April 29-May 1 patriarchal text and its language. Specifi c Higher Education’s LGBT Focus htt p://ti nyurl.com/4vd3d4c texts are open within the general area, It wasn’t so long ago that with heroin Group but should encourage wide-ranging chic and SM clubbing what had been A Queerer Time, A Queerer Place themati c discussion, which will comprise considered unacceptable became a April 11-14 much of the actual conference. www.athe.org/conference/index voguish pretext for mass marketi ng. The Conference (themed “Performance Now, with global hysteria about violent Lille 3 University’s Center for Remains, Global Presence: Memory, computer games and increasing calls for Studies in Civilizations, Foreign Legacy, and Imagined Futures”) will internet censorship, the unacceptable Languages and Literature (CECILLE) include a session on LBGTQ issues in is being reinvented as an object of “Women of the World:” Women’s theater and higher educati on. As the policing. The issue of what is “fi t to” Internati onal Acti vism in Nati onal conference challenges parti cipants present has always haunted culture, Contexts from the 19th to the Mid-20th to transcend nati onal borders and especially in its relati onship with social Century disciplinary lines, as well as to think insti tuti ons: the proscripti on of heresy, May 13 about theatre’s ostensible insistence the erasure of bodies (because of their ti nyurl.com/36l4ntf on repeti ti on and presence, the LGBT age, gender or race), the silencing of This workshop seeks to understand to Focus Group is interested in sessions sexualiti es, the purging of languages, the what extent women’s mobilizati ons exploring the specifi c ways in which classifi cati on of desires as pathologies at internati onal conferences (either LGBTQ scholars, performers, audiences, marking things as well as the practi ce informal or insti tuti onal ones) since educators, and students negoti ate the of everyday life. Conversely, resistance 1945 and in parti cular aft er the 1970s local, the global, ti me, space, and their to the banning of texts and practi ces have helped to consolidate collecti ve queer interpenetrati ons. has long been one of the hallmarks consciousness-raising, reinforced of movements for liberalizati on. interacti on and the comparison of Gender and Education Association Understanding how bodies, images their respecti ve situati ons and claims. Internati onal Gender and Educati on and practi ces are judged unacceptable Topics of interest will include: anti - Conference is key to understanding how culture, slavery, pacifi st, feminist, imperialist, April 27-30 communicati on and creati vity fi t into suff ragist groups; professional 2222 CCONFERENCESONFERENCES organizati ons; “regional” bodies; politi cal and children and increasing women’s Sexual (In)Equality organizati ons; and other nati onal or access to educati on, property, and work July 6-9 local bodies involved in this process show the key role that women can play www.iasscs.org/2011conference of internati onalizati on including trade in development processes. Moreover, The 2011 Conference theme focuses unions, single-issue pressure groups, these processes help to remove on the multi ple ways that equality politi cal movements, whether female- discriminati on on the basis of gender and inequality are arti culated through only or mixed. Papers may cover one and to alleviate the inequaliti es and sexuality. This year presentati ons will or more nati onal spaces, as long as the injusti ces that discriminatory practi ces explore diverse situati ons of (in)equality analysis focuses on the arti culati on and traditi ons produce. Scholars and in sexuality around the world and between trans- or internati onal acti vists in development are increasingly criti cally share proposals, approaches, mobilizati ons and nati onal politi cal and using the concept “gender justi ce” to possibiliti es, victories, inspirati ons, and insti tuti onal contexts. replace the terms “gender equality” challenges that inform and inspire new and “gender mainstreaming.” However, forms of acti on and thinking about The Interdisciplinary Research there is no single defi niti on of gender sexuality. Themes will include HIV/ Center on Family Violence and justi ce and much disagreement among AIDS and sexual inequality; beyond Violence Against Women (CRI-VIFF) local, nati onal, and internati onal heterosexuality: LGBTQI challenging Violence Against Women: Complex power-holders about what consti tutes and reproducing sexual hegemonies; Realiti es and New Issues in a Changing gender injusti ce and how to alleviate or sexualized states, from sexual repression World eliminate it. This conference will explore to sexual democracies: the role of the May 29-June 1 these controversies and work towards law, public policies, educati on, medicine ti nyurl.com/3ybu8fy fi nding soluti ons. and religion; development work and the Topics will include violence against reproducti on of sexual inequality; sexual women in vulnerable situati ons, Women’s Worlds tourism: tensions between development insti tuti onal violence, domesti c violence Inclusions, Exclusions, and Seclusions: and cultural colonizati on; the races, (including same-sex couples), honor Living in a Globalized World ethniciti es, social classes and ages crimes, forced marriage, spousal and July 3-7 of sexual (in)equality; translati ng (in) family homicide, sexual violence, www.womensworlds.ca equality: cultural globalizati on of both parenti ng in a violent situati on, Around the world, women are grappling sexual discriminati on and sexual rights. intergenerati onal violence, and children with changing politi cal, cultural, exposed to domesti c violence. The economic, social, and environmental Gender Leadership and Social Conference will also explore social realiti es. And the eff ects of numerous Sustainability (GLASS) Research reacti ons to violence, including issues crises—economic, ecological, or Unit, Monash University such as legislati on against violence, health-related—intensify obstacles Gender and Climate Change: Women, government policies, psychosocial to women’s equality. Globalizati on Research and Acti on programs and therapy for women, has contributed to the destabilizati on September 15-16 men, or children, police, court and and marginalizati on of women and apo.org.au/node/22873 penal system responses, possibiliti es communiti es. Yet certain consequences Gender and Climate Change is an for preventi ng violence, intersectoral have yielded positi ve results for women. internati onal conference that seeks to dialogue and partnership, and the Globalizati on has meant enhanced bring together the latest research in key assessment of eff ects and impacts of communicati ons and organizing— areas of gender and climate change, to various social responses. transnati onal connecti vity that must be highlight impacts of climate change on deepened as women’s organizati ons and women, and to draw together a body The International Development networks struggle to sustain themselves of knowledge for input into the 2011 Ethics Association (IDEA) and maintain resilience in the face of United Nati ons Framework Conventi on Gender Justi ce and Development: Local forces that oppose women’s equality. (COP 17) and the Earth Summit 2012. and Global The conference will explore these The conference aims to bring together June 9-11 complex matt ers through refl ecti on, researchers, advocates, and policy community.eldis.org/.59deebce learning, and sharing a variety of ideas makers and to form a coherent picture Many organizati ons at the local, and experiences—especially those of of the diff erenti al impacts of climate nati onal, and global levels now women most deeply aff ected. change and to convey that knowledge understand gender to be a central in formats that assist in policy factor in policies for alleviati ng poverty International Association for the development. The conference will take or promoti ng economic growth. The Study of Sexuality, Culture and place in Prato, Italy. changes wrought by measures such Society (IASSCS) as improving health care for women Naming and Framing: The Making of CCONFERENCESONFERENCES 2233 CCallsalls forfor PapersPapers

Women’s Studies Journal provided a forum for academic research relevance; the issue of “mother- Deadline: February 15 and theory, professional practi ce and daughter” dynamics within feminist htt p://ti nyurl.com/4f9opcn community experience since 1976. movements and theories, and in society This special issue focuses on the more broadly; the ways in which race, moti vati ons, modes, and meanings of The Association for Feminist Ethics class, and sexuality impact (or are left women’s travel in the 20th and early and Social Theory (FEAST): Crossing out of, or marginalized within) debates 21st centuries. Submissions dealing with Borders about feminism and generati onality; any intersecti ons of gender, space, and Deadline: February 28 and how diff erent generati ons of mobility are welcome. Transformati ons htt p://ti nyurl.com/4dtuw5v feminists defi ne and reshape ideologies in technologies of transportati on, an Organizers are now accepti ng and practi ces of feminism(s). The editors expanding economy, and advances submissions for the 2011 “Crossing welcome submissions from a wide in women’s rights legislati on collided Borders” conference. The conference range of disciplinary and geographical in the early 20th century, increasing will have special panel topics such as perspecti ves. Submissions from women’s parti cipati on in forms immigrati on and transnati onal feminism. emerging feminist scholars, including of travel ranging from tourism to Theoreti cal papers on all topics within graduate students, researchers from the careerism. Growing numbers of the areas of feminist ethics and social social sciences, humaniti es, educati on, women moved increasingly further theory are welcome. Proposals for law, and women’s/gender studies are from family homes to att end colleges presentati ons other than papers parti cularly encouraged. All submissions and establish careers. Possible topics (e.g., workshops, discussions, etc.) to the journal must be submitt ed include: Women, Global Volunteerism, should include detailed descripti ons electronically through the online and Social Entrepreneurism; Gender demonstrati ng that the ideas are as submission process. and Sustainable Tourism; Gendered developed as they would be in a paper. Spaces at Home and Abroad; Gay and FEAST strongly encourages members International Association for Lesbian Tourism; Women’s Virtual of groups that are underrepresented in Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Travel Communiti es; and Women and both the discipline of philosophy and at Reorienti ng Economic Theory, Policies, Surgical Tourism. Book reviews related feminist philosophy conferences to send and Insti tuti ons: Feminist Perspecti ves to the topic are welcome. Manuscripts submissions. The conference will be held in the Aft ermath of the Global and questi ons should be addressed to September 22-25 at Illinois Beach Resort Economic Crisis Shealeen Meaney at [email protected]. and Conference Center, in Zion, Illinois. Deadline: March 1 ti nyurl.com/2gyy5f3 Women and Environments Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist The global economic crisis that began International Magazine (WEI) Theory and Culture in 2008 has resulted in widespread Deadline: February 15 Generati ons of Feminism criti ques of mainstream economic www.weimag.com Deadline: February28 thinking. This has created intellectual The objecti ve of this issue is to www.thirdspace.ca/journal/index and policy space to rethink economic criti cally examine women’s labor (paid The editors of Thirdspace invite theory and policies in a variety of criti cal and unpaid) in the context of the submissions for a themed issue areas: economic development and environment—natural, built, social. of their journal, “Generati ons of industrializati on; growth, environment WEI aims to gather content from both Feminism.” Papers on the following and climate change; inequality by the North and the South. Submissions topics are welcome: contemporary gender and ethnicity; and the role of may be in the form of criti cal studies, and historical debates and discussions the state. Feminist economic thought essays, case studies, book or fi lm about generati onal divides within has a great deal to contribute at this reviews, poetry, photography, and feminism(s); refl ecti ons on geographic period of ripe intellectual ferment. or visual art. Submissions should be and global disti ncti ons within debates Further, feminists are positi oned to be sent electronically to weimag@yorku. and discussions about generati onality able to contribute to ongoing debates ca using “Women, Environment and and feminism; the politi cs of on how to reform the global fi nancial Labor” as the subject heading. WEI is seniority and generati on in feminist architecture, and with that, insti tuti ons a magazine that examines women’s organizati ons, acti vist groups, and of global economic regulati on, such relati ons to their natural, built, and academic communiti es; the noti on as the World Bank, World Trade social environments from feminist of feminist “waves” and its remaking, Organizati on, and Internati onal and anti -racist perspecti ves. It has conceptualizati on, and contemporary Monetary Fund. The theme of the 2244 2011 IAFFE annual conference off ers an academy. The theme is opportunity to bring together scholars meant to acknowledge whose contributi ons can sti mulate the academic and thinking in these criti cal areas. Paper sociodiscursive spaces that submissions on the theme of the feminisms, and rhetorics conference as well as topics of interest on or about feminisms, to feminist economics are welcome. inhabit. The conference Papers do not have to explicitly address seeks to address questi ons gender, but should be gender-relevant. such as: Where are the The conference will take place June discourses of feminism 24-26 in Hangzhou, China. located? What does feminist scholarship look Iran and the World: Contemporary like in the 21st century? Developments How has interdisciplinarity Deadline: March 1 impacted the feminist www.iranoworld.ir agenda? What are the This virtual conference will be held challenges faced by October 5-7. Though common with feminists inside and other nati ons in the world, Iran has outside of the academy? unique characteristi cs too such as its The conference will be ancient history, oil rich and exporti ng held October 12-15 at economy, strategic locati on in the Minnesota State University, Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea Mankato. regions and its religious democracy shape of government. Iran has also Sexual Violence experienced two full-scale revoluti ons Research Initiative in the twenti eth century, the latt er of Deadline: May 31 which had large and important regional www.svri.org/forum2011/ abstracts.htm and internati onal consequences that of abstract submissions among early- The Sexual Violence Research put Iran on the radar screen of the career researchers at the Forum. Initi ati ve’s 2011 Conference Theme great status quo powers. Now in the Submission takes place online; please is “Moving the Agenda Forward” and twenty-fi rst century, it confronts issues see the above website for more details. and experiences problems which have will be held October 10-13 in Cape Town, South Africa. Three sub-themes important implicati ons for its future Women’s Studies International have been identi fi ed as priority for development and external relati ons. Forum strengthening our responses to sexual Themes include Islamic human rights, Deadline: Rolling gender rights and acti viti es, educati on, violence globally: Primary Preventi on, ti nyurl.com/3yd8ln8 health, and the environment, in additi on Responding to Rape: Models of Care, The Forum is a bimonthly journal to many others. and Confl ict and Crisis. The Committ ee to aid the distributi on and invites submission of abstracts for oral exchange of feminist research in Coalition of Women Scholars and poster presentati ons. The Sexual the multi disciplinary, internati onal Feminist Challenges of Feminist Violence Research Initi ati ve would like area of women’s studies and in Rhetorics: Locati ons, Scholarship and to encourage abstract submissions from feminist research in other disciplines. Discourse new and emerging researchers in the The journal seeks to criti que and Deadline: April 15 fi eld of sexual violence. This Program reconceptualize existi ng knowledge, to femrhet.cwshrc.org/?page_id=30 will provide opportunity for young/ examine and re-evaluate the manner Proposals are sought that speak to the less-experienced abstract submitt ers in which knowledge is produced challenges and diversiti es of feminist to receive feedback on their abstracts and distributed, and to assess the rhetoric and discourse, in public and from more experienced researchers. implicati ons this has for women’s private life, in the academy, and in the The program is especially targeted at lives. Contributi ons are invited from media. Proposals are welcome on topics researchers from developing countries people, individually or collecti vely, that signifi cantly engage disciplines who lack access to opportuniti es for from diff erent countries and diff erent other than Rhetoric and Compositi on, mentoring in research and writi ng. backgrounds, who are engaged in and that have consequences for By providing this opportunity, we feminist research inside or outside communiti es located outside of the also expect to increase the number formal educati onal insti tuti ons. CCALLSALLS FORFOR PAPERSPAPERS 2255 Papers are welcomed from a variety gender and development initi ati ves [email protected]. of approaches and resources through and feminist perspecti ves. Gender the whole range of disciplines: papers & Development aims to inform and World Pulse: Ending Gender-Based geared toward acti on-oriented improve development policy and Violence research as well as those which address practi ce through debati ng experience, Deadline: Rolling theoreti cal methodological issues; and identi fying lessons, and advancing new www.worldpulse.com historical reassessments of the lives and ideas. Contributi ons are welcome from World Pulse is looking for real life works of women are encouraged. all involved in development initi ati ves: stories and soluti ons about violence policy makers and practi ti oners, against women for a feature in the Gender & Development researchers both inside and outside upcoming print editi on. Share personal Deadline: Rolling academia, and feminist acti vists. In and observed experiences of violence htt p://ti nyurl.com/4sroxl8 recogniti on of common causes of against women, in any form, and Gender & Development is the only poverty and marginalizati on across the contribute your ideas and innovati ve journal to focus specifi cally on gender world, writers focus on both Southern soluti ons on how to use the World Pulse and development issues internati onally, and Northern contexts. Contributi ons journal as an instrument for change. and to explore the connecti ons between and questi ons should be addressed to OOnlinenline RResourcesesources

IANSA Women’s Network concrete ways of mainstreaming gender for free online so all sexual rights and www.iansa.org/women/index.php perspecti ves in all relevant initi ati ves reproducti ve health advocates can New guidelines for gender and operati ons, and at all stages, from communicate their goals clearly and mainstreaming for the eff ecti ve informati on gathering and planning reach a wider audience with their implementati on of the UN Programme to implementati on, monitoring and message. The kit includes best practi ces of Acti on are now available online. evaluati on, in the process of eff ecti ve for pitching a story to a reporter, writi ng With these guidelines, UNODA/RDB implementati on. The guidelines can be press releases (with good and bad and IANSA want to contribute further downloaded at ti nyurl.com/384exm9. examples), ti ps for doing an interview, to the understanding of the signifi cance The Statement of the IANSA Women’s plus informati on about creati ng media, of the diff erent roles played by men, Network to the Fourth Biennial Meeti ng including blogs and online videos. The women, boys and girls both as part of States on Small Arms is available at tool kit is available for free online and of the SALW proliferati on problem ti nyurl.com/38wyrlw. can be downloaded from the IWHC’s and in fi nding soluti ons to it, and of website. the signifi cance of mainstreaming International Women’s Health gender perspecti ves for the eff ecti ve Coalition (IWHC) Media Advocacy Video Games for Social Change implementati on of the Programme of Toolkit ti nyurl.com/3aebpou Acti on. The guidelines have thus been ti nyurl.com/27xktqe How can video games be used for developed as a user-friendly resource The ability to engage with the media good? This video interview with Heidi that will help practi ti oners identi fy and raise public awareness is important Boisvert from Breakthrough explains for any advocate. The how video games, oft en seen as IWHC has developed promoti ng violence, racism or sexism, a media advocacy tool are now being used for positi ve change. kit to give sexual rights The website Games for Change (www. and reproducti ve health gamesforchange.org) hosts games such advocates the resources as “Darfur is Dying” and another game needed to develop called “Peacemaker” which unites Israel an eff ecti ve media and Palesti ne. Heidi has been personally strategy as you plan involved with a game called “ICE (I can your work. IWHC uses end deportati on).” Heidi explains that these materials in their there are no examples of games for Advocacy in Practi ce change being used for gender equality. trainings, and they The large majority of studios and game have now made these producti on companies are male-driven. resources available She explains how there is a real 2266 opportunity to create an environment fi lms and online books. dossiers in the GCG portal are spin-off s for more female designers who will bring from themati c books published in KIT’s more sensiti vity to the fi eld. Also there is The Rwandan Men’s Resource Gender, Society & Development series. opportunity to bring designers together Center (RWAMREC) The portal will be updated with new with acti vists to start producing media www.rwamrec.org informati on resources added regularly, collaborati ons that will arti culate some The Rwandan Men’s Resource Centre and has an RSS and email alert service of the experiences that 21st century website off ers various informati on to keep subscribers informed of new women face today. outputs including forums, documents additi ons. and training courses all aimed at Rwanda Women’s Network alleviati ng gender based violence (GVB). World Bank eAtlas of the www.rwandawomennetwork.org A number of essays on the topic look Millennium Development Goals Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) is a at how to involve men in reducing htt p://ti nyurl.com/6f686z5 nati onal humanitarian NGO dedicated incidents of GVB, explore the term The World Bank eAtlas of the Millennium to the promoti on and improvement “positi ve masculinity,” and support Development Goals allows users to of the socioeconomic welfare of every man’s eff orts at positi ve change. visualize and map the indicators that women in Rwanda by enhancing their The website provides essays on how measure progress toward the MGDs, eff orts to meet their basic needs. The men can help reduce GBV and links to with clear explanati ons of each goal Rwanda Women’s Network implements other organizati ons addressing issues of and its related targets as the context. three core programs. These include masculinity and GBV. The consti tuti on The eAtlas creates a world map keyed provision of health care and support, of the Rwandan Men’s Resource Centre to selected indicators, with country educati on and awareness programs is also available which outlines how rankings and data in either tables or on human rights and legal procedures, the initi ati ve aims to promote men’s graphs. Users can pan or zoom to view socioeconomic empowerment and atti tudes and behaviors towards diff erent countries or regions, view the insti tuti onal capacity building for the non-violence and gender equality in dynamic change in that map with a ti me network. RWN off ers appropriate Rwanda and facilitate networking, series, and compare two maps and sets training for the women in the respecti ve support, and informati on sharing of data. areas, with peace and reconciliati on between men and women. It is also being the ulti mate goal of all their possible to become a member of the Plan International programs. Their website off ers initi ati ve by downloading and completi ng ti nyurl.com/32ze8rp informati on on their programs, their a form. “Because I am a Girl: The State of the networking and advocacy acti viti es, their World’s Girls 2010—Digital and Urban accomplishments and analyzes some of Gender, Citizenship and Governance Fronti ers,” 2010, 199 pp. This report is the challenges the RWN has faced. (GCG) the fourth in a series of annual reports ti nyurl.com/6xww8h published by Plan examining the rights Avega Agahozo–Rwanda Genocide GCG provides access to more than of girls throughout their childhood, Women Association 500 free, full-text internet resources adolescence and as young women. www.avega-agahozo.org on women’s politi cal parti cipati on Focusing on two of the 21st century’s AVEGA, the Associati on of the Widows and representati on, women’s civil and fastest growing areas, the boom in of Rwanda, is a nonprofi t organizati on politi cal rights, women/gender and local city populati ons and the explosion of which works with widows, orphans, government, gender and accountability, IT and communicati on technology, parents whose children have died, the gender and insti tuti onal mainstreaming, the report looks at the prospects and elderly and the disabled. They work with and gender in policy processes. The perils facing girls. While there are great women on small income-generati ng resources include epublicati ons, websites opportuniti es, prejudice and poverty is projects (such as animal husbandry), (including weblogs), enewslett ers, excluding millions of girls from taking mental health care and HIV-AIDS care. audiovisuals, and bibliographic and advantages of the possibiliti es on off er. They also provide fi nancial support to project databases. These are selected Urban poverty, lack of proper housing women in situati ons of crisis, ranging by informati on specialists and can be and sexual harassment can make from the incapacity to feed children, the searched by keyword(s), author, resource many girls feel unsafe. Cyberspace can lack of funds to pay for children’s school type, year of publicati on. The portal has also be hazardous—a hunti ng ground fees, a leaking roof or a non-culti vated been launched by the Royal Tropical for traffi ckers and bullies. The report fi eld. The website provides news on Insti tute (KIT) in December 2008 and is argues that girls need to be able to gain their projects, their centers and relevant ongoing. The portal also provides access the skills to protect themselves and resources, including annual reports. to dossiers, informati on guides that off er to recognize both the threats and the Currently a secti on of the website is in-depth informati on and selected key opportuniti es that await them on the city being set up which will host relevant resources on a parti cular theme. The streets and online. OONLINENLINE RRESOURCESESOURCES 2277 UN Non-Governmental Liaison forced evicti ons, and to take steps as their essenti al roles in planning, Service before forced evicti ons occur to ensure implementi ng, monitoring and htt p://ti nyurl.com/6du3kx8 that these rights are not violated. The evaluati ng (M&E) soluti ons. This Toolkit “Closing the Gaps: Gender Equality and Guidelines place emphasis on preventi ng responds to practi ti oner demands for Development Eff ecti veness,” 2010, 8 and addressing the phenomenon of informati on, tools and guidance to pp. Since 2000, various UN processes violence against women within the facilitate the design, implementati on have provided opportuniti es to make context of forced evicti on, noti ng that and management of Community- the links between gender equality and governments need to provide training Based Adaptati on (CBA) projects. The development eff ecti veness and the to all personnel involved in carrying CBA Toolkit off ers a practi cal “how-to” need to ensure a greater and more out evicti ons on respectf ul treatment guide for project teams in completi ng equitable allocati on of resources across of women during evicti on, and need the project cycle for CBA projects and all populati on groups. These links to communicate and enforce a zero- includes step-by-step guidance and have become increasingly relevant tolerance policy on gender-based recommended tools for all stages of as world leaders look for ways to harassment and violence. But violence the project cycle, along with links to accelerate progress on the Millennium against women is not the only concern useful resources and checklists for key Development Goals (MDGs), including during evicti ons. In its Guidelines, project documents. It also includes CBA women’s empowerment and gender COHRE urges States to ensure the Project Standards to help ensure high equality, while confronti ng the multi ple conti nuity of girls’ educati on and quality analysis, design, implementati on global crises of food, fuel, fi nance and women’s livelihoods should an evicti on and informati on and knowledge climate change. Yet actual fi nancing for occur, and ensure gender equity in management (including monitoring and gender equality remains limited. On a rehabilitati on, relocati on, resett lement evaluati on) for CBA projects. growing scale, gender acti vists and other and compensati on schemes. civil society groups are advocati ng for International Center for Research innovati ve fi nancing for development Food and Agricultural Organization on Women (ICRW) initi ati ves, such as a fi nancial transacti on of the UN (FAO) www.icrw.org/media/blog tax, a Robin Hood/Maid Marian tax, Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit The ICRW works to make women or an airfare solidarity tax that could www.fao.org/gender/agrigender/en in developing countries an integral generate additi onal resources to fund This database presents examples of part of alleviati ng global poverty. ways of countering global poverty or gender relevant questi ons and tables The organizati on identi fi es women’s communicable diseases, for example. jointly developed by nati onal stati sti cians contributi ons as well as the obstacles Financing for gender equality goes and FAO for agricultural censuses that prevent them from being beyond securing greater resources for undertaken in Africa between 1993 and economically strong and able to fully projects targeted to women. To bring 2006. Stati sti cs producers and users parti cipate in society. ICRW translates about meaningful change, it must also alike called for the development of such these insights into a path of acti on entail aligning economic, trade and a database to improve the producti on that honors women’s human rights, environmental policies with gender of reliable sex-specifi c agricultural data ensures gender equality and creates equality goals, providing access to needed for targeted policy formulati on the conditi ons in which all women can decent work, food security, and social and planning of agricultural and rural thrive. protecti on to all segments of the development. The database has been populati on, both women and men. developed in line with the framework of Contestations “Women’s the 2010 round of the World Programme Empowerment: What do Men have Centre on Housing Rights and for the Census of Agriculture. to do with it?” Evictions (COHRE) ti nyurl.com/38xbnv9 ti nyurl.com/25hx2rw CARE International Representati ons of men as perpetrator The Guidelines, based on internati onal Community-Based Adaptation and patriarch have profoundly shaped human rights standards, tackle head-on Toolkit the terms of gender and development’s a government’s duty to pursue gender- www.careclimatechange.org/toolkits engagement with masculiniti es discourse sensiti ve alternati ves to evicti on— Adaptati on is now recognized as and practi ce. Many of those working including through consulti ng with an essenti al part of the global in the fi eld have remained hesitant, aff ected women—and to take steps so response to climate change. Based on tentati ve, oft en hosti le to the noti on that women are not disadvantaged or decades of experience, development that men might be potenti al allies in abused when evicti ons do take place. actors are increasingly promoti ng a the struggle for gender justi ce. Yet, in COHRE’s Guidelines stress that States “community-based” approach that another corner of the internati onal have concrete responsibiliti es to uphold recognizes the unique risks faced by development world, it has come to women’s rights within the context of poor and marginalized people, as well feel as if there has never been so 2288 OONLINENLINE RRESOURCESESOURCES much att enti on paid to men. Men’s BRIDGE, in partnership with Choike, Siyanda Database on Experts and engagement is sought as the key to based in Uruguay, has transformed the Consultants in Latin America and addressing men’s violent and abusive Cutti ng Edge Pack on Gender and Care the Caribbean behavior, and galvanizing changes into a dynamic web-based output in htt p://ti nyurl.com/4beul2u in their personal and interpersonal Spanish, which includes resources and This Siyanda database contains over relati onships. As interest in men 1,400 profi les and can be used as and masculiniti es has proliferated, a networking tool for connecti ng so too has ambivalence amongst practi ti oners, researchers, acti vists, feminists about what this “men students and experts with like- agenda” is all about. For some, minded colleagues, persons it’s a diversion from the real working on similar themes, or in task of working with women to the same geographical locati on. enable them to gain greater voice, The database is also an excellent agency and resources. For others, resource for those seeking experts it’s a nuisance and a threat, for gender-focused consultancies. draining away vital funding and Each profi le contains the Expert’s att enti on from women’s rights. contact details and areas of For others sti ll, it’s a fashion experti se, and highlights their without politi cal substance. As publicati ons. “men and masculiniti es” has been rolled out by development Toolkit on Developing Gender agencies, it too has been Statistics depoliti cized in the process, ti nyurl.com/2b8g9tk soft ening the very real concern The UN Economic Commission about the “harder” power issues of Europe and the World Bank at stake. In the process, we have Insti tute have digiti zed the stati cs lost the criti cal insights which manual, Developing Gender characterized early debates Stati sti cs: A Practi cal Tool. The around masculiniti es, and which manual is now available for held such promise for injecti ng free download. This manual new possibiliti es into a narrow provides practi cal instructi on for gender agenda. organizati ons on the producti on and use of gender stati sti cs. International Development Chapters 1 and 2 explain the Research Center (IDRC) importance of producing and Gendered Terrain: Women’s analyzing stati sti cs on gender Rights and Access to Land in diff erences. Chapter 3 provides Africa guidance on data producti on www.idrc.ca/gender_land and Chapter 4 looks in detail at Parti cipants from over 20 IDRC- selected topics relevant to gender funded research projects on stati sti cs and the implicati ons for gender and land in 14 African countries organizati ons that are specifi c to the data collecti on. Chapter 5 examines presented their work, including ILC Lati n American context. The web site methods for improving the use of project partners in the “Securing includes regional issues, case studies gender stati sti cs through communicati on Women’s Access to Land:Linking and materials relevant to care in Lati n strategies and disseminati on platf orms Research and Acti on” project in Eastern American. Choike is a portal dedicated such as interacti ve databases and and Southern Africa. Presentati ons and to improving the visibility of the work websites. An important component of summaries of projects presented at the done by NGOs and social movements any initi ati ve to develop stati sti cs on Symposium can now be found on the from the South. It serves as a platf orm gender is advocacy and partnership IDRC website. where citi zen groups can disseminate building. Chapter 6 provides guidance on their work and at the same ti me enrich making it happen through campaigning BRIDGE and Choike’s Cutting it with informati on from diverse sources, for top management support, creati ng Edge Pack on Gender and Care (in which is presented from the perspecti ve legislati on and defi ning a gender Spanish) of Southern civil society. stati sti cs program. htt p://ti nyurl.com/4ljqspl OONLINENLINE RRESOURCESESOURCES 2299 BBookook RRevieweview

Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventi ons, by Bernadett e P. Resurreccion and Rebecca Elmhirst, eds.; 2008, 268 pp. Available from Earthscan, 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012 USA. Reviewed by Julia Wartenberg, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia.

Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventi ons is an edited volume which off ers the reader an examinati on of the gender and resource management connecti on in Asia. Twenty-one contributors in twelve arti cles off er insight, experti se and knowledge on the shape of gender policies and practi ces, within an ever-changing arrangement of resource access, control and management in various contexts. The chapters are divided into three parts: contextualizing gender and natural resource governance in neoliberal ti mes; gender interventi ons: targeti ng women in sustainable development projects; and responding to interventi on: gender, knowledge and authority. The aim of the editors in this book is to bridge theory, policy and practi ce and in so doing, to prompt a dialogue and off er a response to the concern that gender is no longer uti lized as a criti cal concept. To guide the rest of the volume, the editors off er an introductory chapter in which they point out that within natural resource management development initi ati ves, gender no longer has a “criti cal or politi cized edge,” but rather has become extremely mainstream as a “technical fi x” (3). The editors go on to discuss the ever-evolving gender-environment debates before asserti ng the overarching importance of recognizing the social constructi on of gender as well as the intersecti onality of gender and natural resource management. The argument for recognizing the importance of the social constructi on of gender in resource management is evident throughout the volume. Fundamentally, the contributors’ writi ngs show gender is relati onal not only in interacti ons between men and women in the household, but also in macro-micro relati ons–such as how one’s agency is structured by social norms and insti tuti ons and thereby impacts how one enacts that agency within certain contexts. Barbara Earth and her colleagues analyze the commoditi zati on of silk producti on (sericulture) in northeast Thailand. They state that the producti on of sericulture has always been performed by women and is vital to the local economy. The chapter details how macro policies are enacted by the government and how new technological and producti on methods can revalue work and the people performing that work. The social constructi on of gender is also shown through the gendered relati ons of power at work within NGOs and how those relati ons are refl ected in fi eldwork. Kathleen O’Reilly draws on her study of a drinking water supply project in northern India to show how women fi eldworkers produce and reproduce gendered relati ons of power. Most fascinati ng is how these relati ons play out both among staff and between staff and women’s groups in the village. Throughout the volume, the contributors arti culate the importance of considering the intersecti onality of gender with ti me, space, ethnicity and class. As a result, they demonstrate why neither women nor men should be seen as a homogeneous group, something which development projects have been prone to do. Instead, projects and fi eldworkers must recognize the specifi c macro and micro contexts, how these interact, how they have shaped relati ons and how they have changed over ti me. Another theme communicated throughout the volume is the feminizati on of natural resource management and its linkage to neoliberalism. Pointi ng to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), the editors write that this is the “social face of neoliberalism” (12). Melinda Herrold-Menzies shows how a micro-credit scheme which incorporated women, but was not initi ally directed solely at women, actually increased the workload of women. In failing to address the gendered division of labor which existed within the society, the micro-credit scheme merely added another layer of work for women. Instead of confronti ng gendered hierarchies, this scheme intensifi ed them. The book’s overarching strengths lay in its ability to exemplify the importance of understanding the diversity of gender and, perhaps more importantly, to understand gender relati ons within cultural, politi cal and socioeconomic contexts. While this is done artf ully, in a unifying fashion, the book is less able to depict the consequences of neoliberalism on the micro community level. While various chapters do provide a certain focus on this subject matt er, parti cularly on the interacti on between neoliberalism and gender relati ons, this theme is not woven in throughout the book as thoroughly as the other. Uti lizing Judith Butler’s performati ve approach to understanding the presentati on of gender, this volume will serve as a resource for students, academics and practi ti oners alike. It challenges the reader to rethink how gender is considered in the context of development and how to adjust natural resource conservati on programs so that they improve, rather than hinder, the social standing of women. Additi onally, the book points readers to new areas of research and inquiry. By challenging current confi gurati ons of natural resource management, the editors bring the concepts of power, access and control back into the gendered analysis.

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