RESOURCE BULLETIN Fall 2011 Volume 27 :: Number 1 endered erspectives Gon InternationalP Development IN THIS ISSUE Gree ngs from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State Articles . 1 University, the host center for the Gender, Development, and Globaliza on (GDG) Program, formerly the Women and Interna onal Development (WID) Program! Audiovisuals . .4 Monographs and Technical The Gendered Perspec ves on Interna onal Development Working Papers series Reports . .6 is pleased to announce the publica on of its newest paper, “Prolonging Suff ering: Domes c Violence, Poli cal Economy, and the State in Northern Vietnam,” by Lynn Periodicals . 12 Kwiatkowski. While the Vietnamese state has recently made domes c violence a prominent concern, it has con nued to emphasize a reconcilia on approach which Books. 13 has had the unintended eff ect of prolonging the suff ering of many abused women. Study Opportunities. 17 This paper examines the links between a state approach to domes c violence, transna onal processes, and women’s physical and emo onal health and suff ering. Grants and Fellowships . 18 This paper, along with much of the Working Papers series, is available for free Conferences. .20 online at gencen.msu.edu/publica ons/papers.htm. Calls for Papers. .23 As always, we encourage submissions and sugges ons from our readers! We especially invite graduate students, scholars, and professionals to review one of a Online Resources . .24 number of books that are available for review. We also encourage submissions by Book Review . .26 authors and publishers of relevant ar cles and books for inclusion in future issues. Remember, the current issue of the Resource Bulle n, along with the most recent back issues, are now online! Visit gencen.msu.edu/publica ons/bulle n.htm. Thank you very much, and enjoy the Fall 2011 issue of the Gendered Perspec ves on Interna onal Development Resource Bulle n! Execu ve Editor: Anne Ferguson, PhD **The contents of this publica on were developed under a Title VI grant Managing Editor: Meskerem Glegziabher from the U.S. Department of Educa on. However, those contents do Editorial Assistants: Varsha Koduvayur not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Rebecca Farnum Educa on.** Edited by: Galena Os pow AArticlesrticles Affilia and par cipant observa on, inspired Comparative Studies of South Asia, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2011 by feminist standpoint analysis as a Africa and the Middle East “The Impact of Unintended theore cal interest. Volume 31, Issue 1, 2011 Consequences of the 1996 U.S. “Islamic Feminism Revisited,” by Haideh Immigra on Reform Act on Women,” Volume 26, Issue 1, 2011 Moghissi, pp. 76-84. Women in almost by Maria Gomes and Fariyal Ross-Sheriff , “Gendered Ma ers: Undocumented every Muslim society have placed issues pp. 117-124. One of the unintended Mexican Mothers in the Current of women’s rights fi rmly at the heart consequences of the 1996 Illegal Policy Context,” by Michele Belliveau, of their socie es’ poli cs. Women- Immigra on Reform and Immigrant pp. 32-46. Feminist theorists have centered secular religious and/or Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), also known exchanged an exclusively gendered nonreligious perspec ves and ac vi es, as the 1996 Immigra on Reform Act, analysis for an intersec onal lens that through their resistance against Islamist which was designed to address the accounts for the mul ple marginalized gender poli cs, have introduced a new issues of illegal immigra on in the loca ons occupied by individuals in dynamism into debates over religion United States, is the fracturing of a hierarchy. This ar cle uses both and the secular and the separa on of families. For some female deportees intersec onal and feminist standpoint state and faith. This essay ques ons who have lived in the United States theories to analyze the fi ndings from the outcome for women who in their since infancy, deporta on is a case of a qualita ve study of undocumented con nued and persistent intellectual double despair because they are sent Mexican mothers’ strategies of a aining tendencies push for Islamic feminism as away from both the country to which resources for their children in the the only homegrown, locally produced, they have been socialized and their current policy context. Standpoint and culturally appropriate frame for families and are exiled to their countries theory foregrounds the voices of feminist ac vism in Muslim-majority of birth, where they are strangers. undocumented Mexican mothers, while countries. Despite the interlocking and overlapping intersec onal analysis illuminates their oppressions of gender, migra on status, mul ple and interac ng social loca ons. “Ij had and Lower-Middle-Class and social class, many of these deported The fi ndings that mothers accessed Women: Secularism in Rural mothers and grandmothers (as well some needed resources but not others Bangladesh,” by Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, as fathers and grandfathers) have to are analyzed to demonstrate the pp. 124-132. Scholars who argue for the use their social loca on and mul ple relevance of intersec onal analysis to compa bility of Islam with democracy iden es to develop crea ve strategies policy development and prac ce. tend to gloss over the fact that the for coping with the myriad challenges separa on of religion and state has not of reintegra on or rese lement and “Experiences of Racism by Female taken place in the history of the Muslim paren ng from strange lands, their Minority and Immigrant Nursing world. In fact, li le research has been birthplaces. Assistants,” by Natsuko Ryosho, pp. carried out on contemporary eff orts 59-71. In the long-term care system, to make this structural dis nc on, an “To Be or Not to Be a Feminist in gender, race, ethnicity, and class impera ve of the democra c state. India,” by Adi Mitra, pp. 182-200. intersect. While both care providers The author begins this ar cle with an This study was situated in the context and consumers are predominantly analysis of the nineteenth-century of a postcolonial understanding of women, their caregiving and working debates between Islamic scholars and feminism by women in social ac on rela onships refl ect a hierarchical European posi vists and how they work. It analyzed how urban middle- pa ern that is based on race and created a polarized perspec ve that and upper-class women in Kolkata, socioeconomic status. This qualita ve frames Western secular tenets as India, constructed a feminist praxis study explored perceived racism inherently opposed to Islamic religious in terms of their everyday lived and cultural confl icts of eight female principles and that con nues to the experiences as volunteers and social minority and immigrant cer fi ed nursing present day. The author then examines ac vists and as urban Indian women assistants (CNAs) who work at the the call by scholars and ac vists to working in the social work sector of bo om of the nursing home industry separate religion and state in the Indian society. The cri cal issue was hierarchy. On the basis of the fi ndings, Muslim world as well as the Bangladesh the women’s concep on of feminism. the author discusses implica ons Supreme Court’s decision in 2001 to Tes monies from 21 women form the for feminist prac ce in addressing declare the fatwa uncons tu onal. crux of the data that were collected via interracial and cultural issues in nursing The author inves gates to what extent semi-structured bilingual interviews homes. this decree has led to the separa on 1 of religion and state and how it has Women’s Associa ons in Rural South “Gender and the Global Food-Price infl uenced the future of poli cal Islam India,” by Jonathan Pa enden, pp. Crisis,” by Agnes Quisumbing et al., in Bangladesh. Since fatwas target 469–498. This ar cle argues that the pp. 488-492. This ar cle argues that low-income rural women, the author laboring class poor are best able to it is impera ve to take gender into concludes by exploring the implica on access social protec on when they have considera on when evalua ng the of this decision on no ons of gender, suffi cient economic autonomy from their impact of the global food-price crisis Muslim iden ty, and ci zenship in village’s dominant class to allow them and developing crisis-related policies. Bangladesh. to act poli cally. To this end, the ar cle Considera on of gender is important, analyzes the capacity of associa ons given the key role that women play in Development and Change of scheduled caste female laborers in agriculture, the dispropor onate impact Volume 42, Issue 2, 2011 rural Karnataka (south India) to access that the crisis has on women, and the “Between Affi lia on and Autonomy: social protec on through collec ve poten al role that women can play in Naviga ng Pathways of Women’s ac on. It iden fi es links between resolving the crisis. Recent research Empowerment and Gender Jus ce in modifi ca ons of the material condi ons on diff eren al impacts of the crisis is Rural Bangladesh,” by Naila Kabeer, of the laboring class, their capacity to discussed, as are gender dimensions—or pp. 499-528. Inasmuch as women’s take poli cal ac on and the social and lack thereof—in policy responses. subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of Ethiopian Journal of Health constraint that prevail in specifi c and Development contexts, pathways of women’s Volume 16, Issue 3, 2002 empowerment are likely to be “The Role of Men in Fer lity and “path dependent.” They will be Family Planning Programs in Tigray shaped by women’s struggles to Region,” by Gebrekidan Mesfi n, act on the constraints that prevail pp.