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NEW! NEW! NEW! Here is a compilation of publications from the past six months relevant to women's and gender politics and feminist debates. The list is comprehensive and arranged alphabetically by title. >> See also:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007 Plan International 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls', highlights the appalling situation in which girls find themselves - sometimes through poverty, sometimes because they are young but often simply because of their gender. The report is the first in a series of global reports on girls to be published over the next nine years by Plan. Timed to be released on the United Nation's International Day of the Family, 'Because I am a Girl' raises awareness of the threats and broken promises that blight the lives of millions of girls. Download the report as a >> [PDF File] "Bottom of the Ladder" UNICEF's study Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma Children in South East Europe, focuses on the 1.7 million Roma children living in South East Europe. Roma children suffer from poverty, discrimination and a lack of prospects for their future in eight states of South East Europe: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. C "Crossing the Red Line" Kar, Mehrangiz. "Crossing the Red Line: The Struggle for Human Rights in Iran" 2007 ISBN: 156859 1926 This is a remarkable book.It chronicles the life of a woman in Iran- a leading feminist activist and human rights lawyer-under the monarchical and Islamic regimes. From such unique perspective, Mehrangiz Kar ties together micro and macro histories to provide a feminist, intellectual, and political portrait of Iran during the 1960s and after. The volume deserves to be read by both generalists and specialists on Islamic law and revolutionary change in Iran. This book occupies a special place in the study of Iran and human rights. It is engaging because it tells the story from the perspective of a lawyer involved in the details of her work. It provides a deep insight into the historical processes of social change, demonstrating the current problems of an uneven world. D Discrimination in the European Union 2007 European Commission. "Discrimination in the European Union 2007" January 2007 26 pp. The findings from a survey about discrimination and inequality in Europe that was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social on behalf of the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities in the twenty-five Member States of the EU in June and July of 2006. Download the report as a >> PDF File Download the summary as a >> PDF File E Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence Jackson, Nicky Ali (Ed.) "Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence." Routledge, Febuary 2007 ISBN: 978 0415 969 680 704 pages. $160.00 The Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence is a modern reference from the leading international scholars in domestic violence research. This ground-breaking project has created the first ever publication of an encyclopedia of domestic violence. The primary goal of the Encyclopedia is to provide information on a variety of traditional, as well as breakthrough, issues in this complex phenomenon. The coverage of the Encyclopedia is broad and diverse, encompassing the entire life span from infancy to old age. The entries include the traditional research areas, such as battered women, child abuse and dating violence. However, this Encyclopedia is unique in that it includes many under-studied areas of domestic violence, such as ritual abuse-torture within families, domestic violence against women with disabilities, pseudo-family violence and domestic violence within military families. It is also unique in that it examines cross-cultural perspectives of domestic violence. F Feminisms in Development Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead (eds). "Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges" 272 pages 2007 ISBN 1 84277 819 6 This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presented feminists with some enormous challenges. Here, emphasizing the importance of a plurality of approaches, the authors argue for the importance of what 'feminisms' have to say to development. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development. G Gender & Development Journal - Oxfam: Gender-Based Violence Issue Gender & Development Journal Oxfam Volume 15, No.1 2007 The new issue of Oxfam's gender mainstreaming journal 'Gender & Development' (G&D), is out now. Gender-based violence against women and girls is now firmly recognised as both a development and a human rights issue (although the same can not be said for violence directed at other groups on the basis of their gender identity). There is less tolerance for arguments that such violence is a 'private' or a 'cultural' matter and the legislative framework to protect women and girls from specific forms of gender-based violence is now quite extensive, at both the national and international levels. Articles in this issue of the journal describe successful intervention programmes in very different settings, and show that that the attitudes and beliefs that support and justify gender-based violence against women can and are being challenged at every level of society, and that these attitudes can be changed. Abstracts of articles appearing in the issue can be found at [informaworld] Gender and Sexuality A 'Cutting Edge Pack' from BRIDGE Brighton: BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 2007 English (soon available in French and Spanish) ISBN 9781858646316 Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being. How can we make possible more joy and less misery? This pack hopes to inspire thinking on this question. The pack is a concise & practical resource consisting of - Overview Report - by Pinar Ilkkaracan (Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-NEW WAYS in Turkey) and Susie Jolly (BRIDGE) outlining the main issues, examples of innovative practice and recommendations - Supporting Resources Collection, including summaries of new thinking, case studies, tools, online resources and contact details for relevant organisations. - Gender and Development In Brief bulletin These packs, along with all other BRIDGE publications including In Brief, can be downloaded free from the [BRIDGE website]. Paper copies are available for sale through the [IDS virtual bookshop] or from the IDS bookshop, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE E-mail: bookshop@ids.ac.uk, Telephone: 01273 678269, Fax: 01273 621202. Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice UNFPA, UNIFEM. "Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual" 73 pages 2006 Languages: English, Spanish, French ISBN: 1-932827-60-9 This training manual was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM strategic partnership aimed at developing a coordinated approach for effective technical assistance to gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). It is intended to build capacity in the application of gender budget analysis. The manual seeks to build understanding of GRB as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women's rights, and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes. The training manual adds value to the wealth of training resources on GRB, first, through a focus on the applicability of gender-responsive budgeting to reproductive health and, second, through a presentation of sector-specific examples and case studies dealing with maternal health, gender and HIV/AIDS, and violence against women. Read more on the website of [UNFPA] Gender, Society & Development Royal Tropical Institute. " Gender, Society & Development." March 2007 The Gender, Society & Development (GSD) series aim to contribute to the exchange, sharing and dissemination of information on women's and gender issues in developing countries in particular. The annual books in the series combine original contributions with an annotated bibliography and web resources on a topic area. The production of the global sourcebooks is a joint activity of KIT ILS, KIT Development, Policy and Practice, published by KIT Publishers in association with Oxfam UK , and, on occasion, with IIAV and CTA as co-publishers. In March 2007, no. 10 has been published entitled 'Revisiting gender training - the making and remaking of gender knowledge'. Guest Editors: Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Franz Wong, KIT Development, Policy and Practice. [More Information] Girl Soldier McDonnell, Faith J.H. and Grace Akallo. "Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children" June 2007 For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced to commit unspeakable crimes. Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story, which is the story of many Ugandan children, recounts her terrifying experience. This unforgettable book—with historical background and insights from Faith McDonnell, one of the clearest voices in the church today calling for freedom and justice—will inspire readers around the world to take notice, pray and work to end this tragedy. Read more on the website of [Institute on Religion and Democracy] I If I Kept it to Myself: Women Intervene in a World of AIDS World YWCA, The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS 2006 96 pages Languages: English, French and Spanish In this book you will meet young women from all over the world, who have shaken their communities as peer counselors and educators, as care givers and as people living openly with HIV or AIDS; giving hope to many and promoting a humanistic response to the pandemic. Launched at the International AIDS Conference 2006 in Toronto, Canada, “If I Kept it to Myself” features 21 young women working to make a difference in a world with AIDS. The book categorises the profiles according to their area of work namely advocacy, education, care and support, and media and communication. Each section contains a ‘Tool Box’ - tips and tools inspired by the stories in the section that young women can use in their work. Read more on the website of [World YWCA] INSTRAW Gender Research Guide United Nations International Research & Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. "Gender Research Training Guide" INSTRAW, in collaboration with other organizations, promotes and produces knowledge and information on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The Institute encourages people and organizations to carry out action-oriented research on gender-related issues, particularly in developing countries, that will have a concrete impact on policies and programmes. This Gender Research Guide is intended to help both researchers and development practitioners integrate gender issues into their work. The Guide includes:
L Let Women Rule Hunt, Swanee. "Let Women Rule" Foreign Affairs May/ June 2007 Download document as a >> PDF File O One Perfect Day Mead, Rebecca. "One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding" Penguin Press HC May 2007 ISBN: 1594200882 256 pages Rebecca Mead hopes her audience will respond to her book, "One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding" the way she did to the wedding industry -- with a mixture of amusement and horror. Marketing is replacing organized religion and extended family in people's lives, Mead writes, and as wedding ceremonies become more and more elaborate, there is plenty of humor -- and plenty to turn your stomach -- in the business of pledging undying love. This is the first book for Mead, a staff writer for the New Yorker, who has written about everything from human egg-trading for infertile women to the Christian diet movement. Whether her subject is childbearing, religion or love, Mead gravitates toward the same theme in her work: people making money off things that seem like they should be outside of the commercial sphere. Mead writes about how professionals in the wedding industry play on the fears and insecurities of the bride, pressuring her to make the day perfect. She cites an article from Vows, a magazine for wedding dress retailers, which reminds readers, "Just when the bride thinks she'll have to spend no more, it's your job to remind her that her bridal image looks incomplete." Wedding dress retailers are advised to capitalize on what is called the "Oh, Mommy" moment -- when the bride falls in love with a dress -- and pressure them to buy it immediately, regardless of the cost. And videographers appeal to a bride's emotions by telling her that her wedding day will literally be "lost" if she doesn't preserve it on videotape. Read more about the book [here] R Recent Studies on Indian Women Misra, Kamal K. and Janet Huber Lower (eds.). "Recent Studies on Indian Women: Empirical Work of Social Scientists" Rawat Publications, New Delhi February 2007 ISBN: 8131600491 461 pages, $49.00 This volume, which is an Indo-American academic venture, contains 18 theoretically innovative and empirically penetrating essays, including an introductory chapter. The contributors to the volume are distinguished scholars from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, population studies, economics, English literature, geography, economics, etc., with a sustained interest in gender studies in the Indian context. Therefore, multi-disciplinarity with empirically grounded research is the greatest strength of this volume. The volume contains chapters which can cater to the academic needs of scholars having interest on gender issues in India, no matter what is there academic training and background. Some of the chapters in the volume are the down-to-earth experiences of the contributors that have immense policy-oriented import. The issues covered in the volume are wide-ranging as are the expertise of its contributors which include the philosophy of ideal womanhood, issues of women’s empowerment, legal dimensions of widowhood, paternalism and domestic violence, images of matriliny, literary and political dimensions of gender, dalit and tribal women and their varied perception vi-a-vis other Indian women, scientists and entrepreneurs, matrimonial preferences, marriage timings, politics of population control, and so on. The volume will be of special interest equally to students, researchers and policy makers on gender. Further Information and Ordering at [Akhil Books Ltd.] Relationships for Aid Rosalind Eyben (ed) 188 pages 2006 ISBN 1 84407 280 0 International aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on issues of poverty relief and aid like never before but have not focused on the quality of relationships that can make aid succeed or fail. This book, authored by an internationally renowned group of aid practitioners reveals the contradictions and challenges. International development organisations combine the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia with serious and innovative efforts to create a more democratic world, to support transformative learning and to strengthen accountability. The book explores recent attempts from within aid agencies to go against the current flow of top-down results based management by learning how to build lasting partnerships that transfer power to those at the receiving end of aid. More than just a critique, the authors offer a practical framework for understanding relationships in the international aid system and look at the relevance of organizational learning theory that is widely used in business. Rosalind Eyben is a social scientist with a life-time career in international development policy and practice including in Africa, India and most recently in Latin America. She was Chief Social Development Adviser at the UK Department for International Development and since 2002 has been a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. S "The Shame of War" "The Shame of War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict" March 2007 This publication is a reference book as well as photo essay of portraits and testimonies of the sexual violence women suffer when men go to war, and is now available online to IRIN readers T Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World Arab Human Development Report 2005 335 pages The rise of women in Arab countries goes beyond redressing historical injustices against them and ensuring their equitable treatment - notwithstanding that both are due obligations for Arab societies. Indeed, the advancement of women is a pre-requisite for a comprehensive Arab renaissance. Societal reform aimed at enabling the rise of women, in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), is envisioned as one of the two wings of the bird symbolising the rise of women in the Arab world. A bird, however, needs two wings to fly. The other wing would be a wide-ranging and effective movement in Arab civil society that engages both women and their male supporters in steadily extending and consolidating targeted societal reform initiatives on the one hand, and on the other, empowering women - and the society at large - to benefit from them. In particular, the report calls for the adoption of time-bound affirmative action, tailored to the specificities of each Arab society, in order to expand the participation of women in all fields of human activity. This is considered imperative to dismantle the structures of centuries of discrimination. Read more on the website of [UNDP] Trafficking in Persons Report Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State June 12, 2007 Country Narratives Access the report online at the website of the [U.S. State Department] U UN Reform: What's In It For Women? Heinrich Boell Foundation and International Women's Tribune Centre. 93 pages 2006 Abstract from the introduction: The magnitude and complexity of the issues that touch on the broad range of socio-political and economic aspects of global governance and the elaborate international infrastructure involved make UN reform no easy feat. But since many of us believe that it is still the only international body we have that will put women’s human rights and gender equality on the global map, we need to do our part in re-establishing its legitimacy, in holding Member States accountable to all the international agreements they have signed and in monitoring and demanding coherence between global policies and what the UN does on the ground. At time when the UN is undergoing the most extensive and ambitious reform process by far, we need to stay engaged; we need to be in the middle of the discourse. This publication is an effort to broker and sustain women’s discussion on UN Reform. Download as a >> PDF File V Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement Sayigh, Rosemary Digital Book Now accessible on Internet: the voices of women in different regions of historic Palestine - Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel/1948 Palestine - telling their stories of loss of home, whether through displacement, refugeedom, demolition and threat of demolition, deportation, imprisonment, and total transformation of environment. The stories of about 70 people, mainly women with a few men, are recorded here. They are not known leaders but 'ordinary' Palestinians of varying ages and social backgrounds - urban, rural, Bedouin; citizens and refugees. This is a multi-media project, a digital book in which you can hear the speakers' voices, see portraits of their faces and surroundings, and read texts that describe individual speakers and give historical background. The site will be expanded as new information and readings become available. The book is avaible at [Website] W Women, Girls, Boys, & Men "Women, Girls, Boys, & Men. Different Needs - Equal Opportunities" IASC Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action 119 pages 2006 The document is a chapter from a forthcoming handbook on gender mainstreaming in humanitarian action developed by the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee and partner organisations. It is meant to serve as a resource for policy-makers and practitioners on how to ensure that gender concerns are integrated into all protection and assistance programmes in humanitarian emergencies. Download the document as a >> PDF File For a complete list of new publications please visit the German version [Neuerscheinungen] Aktualisiert: 20.09.2007, meb |