Women in Action articles from August 2004

Women in Action archives from August 2004

Global feminist activism in focus.(editorial)
August 1, 2004... The time is ripe for feminists in the women's movement to have a big sit down and think through session. It seems that everyone talks about the changing times--politically, socially, economically and culturally, about how in turn we as...

Women's social, sexual rights remain a concern for southern Nigeria.(clips)
August 1, 2004... The status of women's rights in Nigeria as been a topic of international concern in recent years, as Islamic courts have sentenced several women to death for adultery. Much of the focus has centered on Nigeria's largely Muslim North, where a...

Peep-show victims in Japan seek justice.(clips)
August 1, 2004... It is a case of a sleazy Japanese boss victimising nine Chinese girls by installing a video camera in the bathroom the women shared, so he allegedly could peep at them. And the Ministry of Commerce is now demanding that officials in...

Sexualised violence against female soldiers going largely unpunished.(clips)
August 1, 2004... Sexualised violence and harassment of women is a widespread problem within the U.S. armed services, but according to a government investigation and testimony from numerous female soldiers who have been raped, assaulted and harassed by male...

E-learning costs too expensive.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Electronic Learning (E-learning) is good for the developing countries like Zambia but it is too expensive for the Zambian people, claimed lecturer Billy Kahota, writes News Update's Zambia correspondent Timothy Kasolo. In a contribution to...

Building global solidarity through feminist dialogues.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... With the current geopolitical con text of neoliberal globalisation, resurgent fundamentalisms and escalating war and militarisation as impetus, alter-globalisation forces through the World Social Forum are consolidating their ranks. Around the...

Examining the women's movement.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... As part of the its 30th year anniversary, Isis International Manila partnered with several global, regional and local women's networks for a series of feminist debates on issues of critical concern to the women's movement. Earlier this...

Social movements, feminist movements and the state: a regional perspective.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... Introduction The task of defining a regional perspective on such wide-ranging matters as social movements, feminist movements and the State is challenging. First, it is necessary to address the diversity of South Asia, as well as the...

Beyond good and evil: notes on global feminist advocacy (1).(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... It might even be possible that what constitutes the value of those good and respected things consists precisely in their being insidiously related, knotted, and crocheted to these evil and apparently opposed things--perhaps even in being...

The case for a fifth world conference.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... Since the fourth World Conference on Women (WCW) in Beijing in 1995, I have been studying the impact of the conference process on different levels of civil society from the global governance context, including the UN, national governments, the...

Why feminist autonomy right now?(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... Writing about Autonomy Sometimes when I set out to write about the things that concern me most, matters that often keep me pre-occupied for nights on end even as they nurture and sustain my political soul, it seems to take forever to find...

Mainstreaming gender as strategy: a critique from a reluctant gender advocate.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... My encounters with gender mainstreaming have been from different vantage points, but I want to reflect on my encounters and insights into the experience of being a gender advocate within the context of the UN. I consider myself a reluctant...

At the crossroads: rethinking the critical advocacies of the women's movements.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... There have been many long strides and turning points for the women's movement since the UN Decade for Women (1975-1985), marked at each point by binding frameworks and policies enacted at international, regional and national levels to provide...

Gender mainstreaming: an obsolete concept? A conversation between two long-time feminist activists.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... This conversation took place in Sri Lanka in August 2004 during a rare free moment when Sunila Abeysekera and Marilee Karl sat down together to reflect on concerns about gender mainstreaming in the women's movement today. Marilee: Gender...

Gender mainstreaming the Ghana poverty reduction strategy or is it?(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... Introduction Since independence, efforts at national and community development have been aimed at reducing poverty and promoting growth (Ghana Government, 1995; Nikoi, 1998). In recent times, questions of equity and women's empowerment...

Gender equality in the new millenium: goal or gimmick?(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... I want to introduce my discussion by making three points: (i) I do not believe in the MDGs. (1) I think of them as Major Distraction Gimmicks--a distraction from the much more important Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) with its 12 Priority...

The imprint of nationalism and fundamentalism on sexuality.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... I would like to share with you some ideas and experiences about the relationship between nationalism, fundamentalism and sexuality in Latin America. When I refer to "fundamentalism," I follow the definition I learnt from my colleagues in Women...

The future of feminist proposals in the context of globalisation.(Examining Feminist and Social Movements)
August 1, 2004... When I first started working in NOVIB, the Dutch Oxfam, not long before the 1995 Beijing UN Women's Forum, I used to worry about my role, With which hat should I be speaking, my lesbian/feminist one, or as the director of a Dutch development...

Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality By Vera Mackie Tracing the history of feminism in Japan from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, Vera Mackie offers a fascinating account of those who rebelled...

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty This volume collects the classic and new writings of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, feminist thinker and "vanguard of Third World and international...

Gender and Development.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Gender and Development By Janet Henshall Momsen Since the classic Women and Development in the Third World was published over a decade ago, a new awareness of the importance of gender roles in development has grown. Gender and Development...

Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics As If All People Mattered.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics As If All People Mattered By Lourdes Beneria With Cold War politics gone as the organising principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of...

Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights By Rosalind Pollack Petchesky Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and...

Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia Edited by Mukul Sharma This volume documents powerful lessons in empowerment drawn from the varied experiences of four Asian NGOs engaged respectively in: (i) participatory...

Shaping Globalisation: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding.(Books)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Shaping Globalisation: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding By Nicanor Perlas Civil Society has be come a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the...

Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society Edited by Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney Bringing together methodologies from political economy, anthropology and history, the 10 essays...

Women Reinventing Globalisation.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Women Reinventing Globalisation Edited by Joanna Kerr and Caroline Sweetman Women Reinventing Globalisation focuses on one of the most urgent issues facing gender equality work: "How can we reinvent globalisation to further the rights of...

World Social Forum: Challenging Empires.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... World Social Forum: Challenging Empires Edited by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar and Peter Waterman Since it was first held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, the World Social Forum (WSF), described by Anand as "a transnational exchange...

Understanding Globalization.(book by Tony Schirato and Jen Webb )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Understanding Globalization By Tony Schirato and Jen Webb The text includes a basic, easy-to-read introduction to the discourses, practices and technologies that have been grouped together under the term globalisation. It outlines the...

Web resources.(ISIS resources)
August 1, 2004... National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded in 1966, NOW is an American activist organisation that encourages equal rights for women. It seeks the abolition of sex discrimination in all areas of American society, especially in...

More could be better: a review of the Center for Women's Resources Website <http://www.cwrweb.com>.
August 1, 2004... The Center for Women's Resource (CWR, Manila, Philippines) describes its goal as "popularising knowledge on women and development through research and publications in order to effect change in the consciousness of the larger public." It is...

Global (mal)development? A review of Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A review of Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development. Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnanin, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian How do women in the Third World make themselves heard through the din of a male-dominated world gone awry...

Something old, something new: redefining convergence of the new ICTs and the more established media.(media section)
August 1, 2004... Media used to mean only one thing--public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television, as well as those that provide entertainment. While there are several forms such as print, broadcast, audio-visual,...

Interaction and cooperation between alternative and mainstream: a study of an anti-domestic violence website in China.(ICT section)
August 1, 2004... Initially entitled "The Interaction of the Alternative Website and Mass Media in China: Case Study of www.stopdv.org.cn", this article is a rewritten version by Kristina Gaerlan of the author's presentation during a symposium on Gender and ICT...