FALL 2007 Volume 23 Number 1 CONTENTS • From the WID Office ..... 1 • Articles ............................ 2 • Audiovisuals ................... 5 • Monographs and Technical Reports ......... 5 • Periodicals ...................... 7 • Books ............................... 8 • Study Opportunities .... 11 Bulletin • Conferences .................. 12 • Grants and Fellowships .................. 13 • Calls for Papers ............ 14 • Online Resources ......... 15 • Cooperation Column ... 16 • Book Review ................. 16 Executive Editor: Anne Ferguson, PhD Women and International Development Managing Editor: a program of J. Christian Reed Editorial Assistants: Nichole McLaughlin Monica Mukerjee Design and Layout: Michigan State University Terri Bailey Karim, Managing Editors, at [email protected]. If the abstract suggests your paper is suitable for the Working From the WID Offi ce Papers series, the full paper will be invited for peer review and publication consideration. WID Working The Women and International Development (WID) Papers are available online at http://www.wid.msu.edu/ Program welcomes back readers of the WID Bulletin, resources/publications.htm. our tri-annual publication highlighting recent literature, resources, and events relevant to activists, Following are recently published Working Papers: researchers, and academics in the area of * WP 288 Development, Democracy, and Women’s gender and development in the Global Legislative Representation: Re-Visiting Existing South. If you are already subscribed Explanations of Gender Variations in the World’s we welcome your comments and Parliaments. By Jocelyn Viterna, Kathleen M. contributions; if you would like to Fallon, and Jason Beckfi eld. 21 pp. (April 2007) subscribe, please contact us using * WP 289 International Trade Liberalization the information printed on the cover. and Gender Wage Inequality: A Cross-National WID is now a program within the new Analysis 1975–1998. By Lisa B. Meyer. 28 Center for Gender in Global Context pp. (September 2007) (GenCen), a multidisciplinary center at Michigan State University WID welcomes Lisa Fine as Co- (MSU) focusing on gender globally, Director of GenCen! Dr. Fine is Professor promoting research, teaching, and of History and former Director of MSU’s outreach about how women and men Program in Women, Gender, and Social engage with the world and how global Justice, which is now part of GenCen. Her processes affect gender relations. interests focus on women’s history in the United States (US) and labor relations. WID publishes Working Papers Also new to GenCen is Tracy Dobson on Women and International who is Acting Co-Director while Anne Development, a peer-reviewed series Ferguson is on sabbatical. Dr. Dobson examining the relationships between is Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife; her gender and global transformation and research interests include international environmental exploring processes of change in the broadest policy, biodiversity policy, gender and environment, sense. Presenting new understandings of women’s co-management of natural resources, and indigenous ever-changing economic, social, and political positions, rights to natural resources. GenCen also welcomes the WID Working Papers offer theoretically grounded Stacey Pier as our new secretary. Stacey, who comes to analysis of empirical research in order to contribute us after years of employment outside MSU, works half- to existing literatures on gender and international time in GenCen and half-time in MSU’s Department development. The Working Papers series is currently of Theatre. We also have two new interns through accepting manuscripts for review. With a primary focus WID’s Diversity and Global Change Undergraduate on women and gender in the global South, the Working Internship Program. Nichole McLaughlin is a Papers series invites manuscripts that explore gender in sophomore in MSU’s James Madison College, relation to historical and contemporary economic and majoring in International Relations and specializing political spheres. Possible topics include but are not in both Muslim and African studies. Issues that hinder limited to: Gender, violence, and human rights; Gender development in the third world intrigue Nichole, as and agriculture; Gender dimensions of globalization well as problems resulting from development. Monica and transnationalism; Gender, health, and health care; Mukerjee is a senior in MSU’s Honors College, Gender and environment; Gender and social movements; majoring in international relations and psychology, Masculinities and international development; Fertility with specializations in political economy, international and reproduction; and Intra- and inter-family roles development, and women, gender, and social justice. and relationships. If you are interested in submitting a Monica is 2007 Truman Scholar, one of 75 students manuscript to the Working Papers series, please send selected for the honor nationwide. She has also been a a 150-word abstract summarizing the paper’s essential McNair Research Scholar and has been nominated for points and fi ndings to Anna Jefferson and Nidal this year’s Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. 1 requirements. By including the analysis of the time dimension in the sociological research, it becomes Articles possible to gain insights into the fi elds and scopes of action of the women in Al Gharaza through their Africa Today, Vol. 53, Iss. 1, Fall 2006: subjective perception. The article opens up further “Mothers on the March: Iraqw Women Negotiating research questions regarding time culture, time the Public Sphere in Tanzania,” by Katherine A. consciousness, and the interdependence of (spatio-) Snyder, pp. 79–99. This article explores the role of temporal and gender structures. women’s marches among the Iraqw in rural Tanzania. “Women and Finance in Sudan: A Case Study in It focuses on the role of mothers in gender identity Greater Omdurman and Khartoum,” by Ulrike Schultz, and how this role gives women the moral authority to Asia Maccawi, and Tayseer El-Fatih, pp. 36–49. In act collectively, demonstrating how this article, the authors look at the gender roles have been redefi ned saving habits and credit relations in the colonial and postcolonial of women in Greater Khartoum eras. In particular, the article and Omdurman, demonstrating focuses on the effects of imposing that fi nancial behavior of women a divided public/private sphere is not only infl uenced by market- and the subsequent devaluation oriented forces but also by the of the social roles of women, and needs of the household and the more specifi cally mothers. Finally, it moral economy. The article examines how Iraqw mothers, through investigates how Sudanese the cultural institution of the protest march, are seeking women use fi nancial institutions they have access to reclaim a role in the public sphere. to in order to organize their lives between market, household, and the community. Within a gender Ahfad Journal, Vol. 23, Iss. 1, June 2006: ideology that enforces the role of the male provider “Engendered Spaces in Al Gharaza Village at the and the female housekeeper, women seem to have Edge of Omdurman,” by Balghis Badri, pp. 3–19. This some room for maneuvering. Furthermore, the moral article investigates how women and men capitalize economy is still a powerful institution leading to on the options and tools at their disposal to defi ne redistribution and reciprocity. This is not only refl ected spaces, engage within their boundaries, and negotiate in the traditional institutions of the moral economy, to cross or change them. The story of women’s such as wajib, but also in the way social relations are encapsulation, of the siege of boundaries in a village reshaped in the urban neighborhoods. only a few kilometers from the capital, raises many questions about the interface between culture, space, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 80, Iss. 1, Winter 2007: and development. It questions the abilities of the “Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: current modernization institutions, media, and civil Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women’s society to crack the siege, raising concerns as to the Empowerment,” by Lauren Leve, pp. 127–172. Islamist project as part of a modernity project or rather Academics, military strategists, and the development a conservative one that intends to leave the people industry have become fascinated by rural women’s isolated from modern institutions as well as the modern active support for the decade-long Maoist insurrection material basis. in Nepal. This article analyzes how the ‘failed “Use of Time—An Indicator for Women’s Spaces development’ hypothesis and ‘conscientization’ model in the Rural Sudan,” by Hardine Knuth, pp. 20–35. explain this phenomenon. Based on testimonies of This study aims at revealing women’s spaces by the women in the Gorkha district, the author argues that time dimension. It becomes clear that the structural both of these prevalent theories refl ect assumptions dimension of time is closely connected with the about social subjectivity that are critically disconnected spatial, economic, and cultural structures that govern from the realities of rural Nepal. Instead, the author daily lives. The temporal aspects of women’s lives fi nds that Gorkhali women’s activism embodies a in Al Gharaza are analyzed in regard to labor, powerful critique of neoliberal democracy and the keeping households, raising children, leisure time, Nepal state, and that their rebel support is morally