Ahfad Journal articles from June 2005

Ahfad Journal archives from June 2005

Editor's note.
June 1, 2005... Dear Readers, This special issue of the Ahfad Journal is the second in the series on international gender studies since 2003. In this collection "Gender across Space and Time", prominent international scholars in the fields of anthropology...

"Reproductive relativity: time, space and western contraception in rural Gambia".
June 1, 2005... This article and the book on which it is based (Bledsoe, 2004) grew out of my involvement in a 1992-95 anthropological demography study in rural Gambia of fertility, Western contraception, and birth intervals: the temporal durations that...

"Hassiba Ben Bouali, if you could see our Algeria" women and public space in Algeria.
June 1, 2005... Secularist and Islamist groups are attempting to define and promote diametrically opposed positions by using similar strategies. In other words, the factions now struggling for power in Algeria show one fundamental ideological agreement: that...

Searching for a middle path: rights, capabilities, and political culture in the study of female genital cutting.
June 1, 2005... It is time for anthropologists to cease the relativist versus universalist polemics which has too often characterized their writing about female genital cutting (from here on, FGC). Moving on from the tired question of whether or not we should...

Gender breakthrough in contemporary Muslim Morocco.
June 1, 2005... Recent social developments have pointed at Morocco as a focus of attention for its dating gender initiatives. President George W. Bush has personally welcomed these "important reforms of the family status which will generate progress in the...

"Gendered resistance, feminist veiling, Islamic feminism".
June 1, 2005... Prelude The strand of feminism that assumes a universality of womanhood, often expressed in activists' phraseology by terms such as 'global sisterhood', has been irreversibly challenged by anthropology on systematic ethnographic and...

Profiles of infertility in southern Nigeria: women's voices from Amakiri.
June 1, 2005... Introduction When in the summer of 2002, after almost twenty years of absence, I returned to Amakiri (pseudonym) an Ijaw community in the Niger Delta, with my 16 year old daughter, I was received with jubilation. It was extremely...

Caribbean women: labor migrants and traders.
June 1, 2005... This paper focuses on the twentieth century, intra-regional, labor migration treks of eastern Caribbean women, and examines the long term structural effects that female labor migration has had on Caribbean family arrangements. The paper...

Hiba Awad Ismail Ahmed and Sanaa Ahmed Abd El- Galeel (School of Psychology and Pre-School Education, Ahfad University for Women) Qualitative Assessment of the Midwives and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).(Research notes)
June 1, 2005... Despite the negative health and other consequences of FGM, still people in the Sudan practice it. As psychologists we assume that FGM is mainly practiced by traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and midwives and rarely by medical doctors as a...

Gender Dimentions of Tuberculosis (TB) Infection in Khartoum State.(Research Notes)
June 1, 2005... --Case study: Abu Anja and Al Silah Al Tibi hospitals-Khalda Musa Sulaiman and Nada Adam Babiker (School of Family Sciences, Ahfad University for Women) The study first aimed at revealing the comparative infection prevalence of TB between...

Husbands' Violence Against Wives.(Research Notes)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... --Case study: Soba Al Aradi and Myo, Khartoum State--Charity Lua Soro and Viana Victor Leju (School of Rural Extension, Education and Development, Ahfad University for Women) The declaration of Violence Against Women (Beijing Conference,...

The Impact of Folklore on the Attitudes of Women Towards Reproduction (In Arabic) Abda Mohamed Ahmed Fedeil (School of Rural Extension, Education and Development, Ahfad University for Women).(Research Notes)
June 1, 2005... Though the folkolore has many positive aspects regarding the social and cultural status there are some negative aspects such as the discrimination between the male and female. A vivid example is encouraging women to give birth to males rather...

General News.(Ahfad University for Women, Sudan)
June 1, 2005... General News: Ahfad University for Women has participated in the Donors Meeting in OSLO, held in April 2005. Delegates of the university attended both the gender symposium and the civil society forum. The university was visited by the...

Barnet Tony and Whiteside Alan, 2002, AIDS in the Twenty First Century: Distance and Globalization.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Barnet Tony and Whiteside Alan, 2002, AIDS in the Twenty First Century: Distance and Globalization, New York, N. Y. 100010 Balgrave Macmillan ISBN 1-4039-0005-1 handbook ISBN 1-4039-0006-x paper back As knowledge increases, interventions...

Joanna Kerr, Ellen Sprenger and Allison Symington (eds) (2004), The future of women's Rights: Global Visions and Strategies.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Joanna Kerr, Ellen Sprenger and Allison Symington (eds) (2004), The future of women's Rights: Global Visions and Strategies, Zeal Books, London ISBN 1 842 77 458 1 cased, ISBN 1 842 77 459 x limp The book is a result of a two years...