Social Research articles from September 2002

Social Research archives from September 2002

Editor's introduction.
September 22, 2002... The position of women in the United States, and in many other places in the West, has improved dramatically in the last 50 years, so that there are fewer and fewer limits on what we can do and how we can live. However, there are many other...

Human security: a conversation.
September 22, 2002... On May 12, 2002, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP), an international nongovernmental organization dedicated to empowering women living in the global South, organized a conversation to map out an approach to a...

The changing role of women in Sri Lankan society.
September 22, 2002... THE role of women in Sri Lankan society is a topic that has been debated and fought over for several centuries. During the British colonial period, for example, a significant strand of nationalist, anticolonial agitation centered on the role...

"A conspiracy of women": the women s movement in South Africa's transition to democracy.
September 22, 2002... Because transition politics are periods of crisis and thus of intense politicization, they bring new ideas and institutions into political life... they provide a rare window on how social structures underlie political structures and practices...

Puzzles of women's rights in Brazil.
September 22, 2002... BRAZIL has the dubious distinction of being the Latin American country with the lowest level of women's representation in national politics. Yet Brazil has Latin America's largest, most vibrant, and most diverse feminist movement, and has...

Women, sexuality, and social change in the Middle East and the Maghreb.
September 22, 2002... Introduction IN THIS age of globalization, women's bodies and sexuality are increasingly becoming arenas of intense conflict. Conservative and religious right political forces are fiercely trying to maintain or reinforce traditional...

Configuring "global," "national," and "local" in governance agendas and women's struggles in Nigeria.
September 22, 2002... GLOBALIZATION--the apparent integration of the world into a single economic space through the redistribution of labor and capital across the political boundaries of nation-states--is often represented as an inevitable and irreversible phase of...

Bridging the local and the global: feminism in Brazil and the international human rights agenda *.
September 22, 2002... SOCIETIES have incorporated gender hierarchies into the manner in which they organize power and into their value systems and their social perceptions of what is masculine and what is feminine along different points in history. To redefine...

Seen and starting to be heard: women and the Arab media in a decade of change.
September 22, 2002... Introduction WOMEN'S unequal access to the media is a universal concern, because negative stereotyping of women and lack of promotion for female editorial staff not only reflect wider disadvantages facing women but also help to sustain and...

The global-local intersection of feminism in Muslim societies: the cases of Iran and Azerbaijan.
September 22, 2002... THE arguments made in this paper are based on empirical studies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as on a review of studies of several other societies in the Muslim and non-Muslim global South. Through a...

Algerian women in the liberation struggle and the civil war: from active participants to passive victims?
September 22, 2002... We had visited the site and noted several possible targets. We had been told to place two bombs, but we were three, and at the last moment, since it was possible, we decided to plant three bombs. Samia and I carried three bombs from the Casbah...