Women in Action articles from December 2001

Women in Action archives from December 2001

Building the case for South-South movements. (Editorial).(Editorial)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... This issue of Women in Action on exploring the nuances of South-South movements or alliances was inspired by the coming together of women from the South around the issues of race, gender, and ethnicity during the World Conference against...

Letter to the editor.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2001... Hello, I would like to request a copy of Women in Action No. 2-2001 for a class project that involves feminist study of Disability. Please let me know if I can obtain a copy. Thank you and keep up the good work. Kathy Keefe Seattle,...

Women's groups call for end to crime of adultery: `law can't mend broken marriages,' they say. (Clips).(from Taipei Times, 10 January 2002)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
December 1, 2001... Five women's organisations have called for the abolition of the crime of adultery. But they said that, in order to prevent the misconception that this would further restrict, rather than expand, women's rights, the Civil Code should first be...

Prettier when pink. (Clips).(pink nipples, Hong Kong)(from Said It Newsletter, 2001)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
December 1, 2001... Last month while window-shopping, I found that pink nipples are the new measure of femininity in Hong Kong. New products and a new emphasis in advertising are creating a new social expectation of the ideal sexually attractive woman, and are...

Thai girl raped by boys copying TV love scene. (Clips).(from The Star Online, 4 January 2002)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
December 1, 2001... BANGKOK -- The alleged gang rape of a 10-year old girl by eight boys, who said they were copying a scene from a television soap, prompted calls from Thai officials for the media to tone down portrayals of sex. Police Lt. Col. Suthee...

Female genital cutter leaves lucrative trade behind. (Clips).(Senegal)(from Inter Press Service, 17 December 2001)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
December 1, 2001... DAKAR--Until 1997, Ourey Sail's occupation, as a traditional female genital cutter in the tiny Senegalese village of Ngeringe Bambara, sustained her family and helped her built the two bedroom stone house she lives in. In her late fifties,...

Central America now draws more sex tourists. (Clips).(from Inter Press Service, 19 December 2001)(Brief Article)(Reprint)
December 1, 2001... YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Due to a lack of political will and weak laws, Central American countries are fast replacing Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and the Philippines as the most sought-after destination of sex tourists, according to...

The North-South debate: moving beyond dichotomies. (South-South Movements).
December 1, 2001... Recession was knocking at the doors of the world's biggest economy before September 11, 2001. The Japanese government and the governments of the European Union were already in trouble and looking for the political and economic alliances that...

The problematique of South-South. (South-South Movements).
December 1, 2001... It is important to raise the question of South-South within the current debate on diversity/ specificity, intersectionality, multiple identities--and within the quest for equity and social justice. Such a discussion could highlight the critical...

The South touching base.
December 1, 2001... Distances were broken--in more ways than one--when women leaders from different parts of the globe came together--in real time--via a Net "chat" to discuss who are the women from the South, how they are doing, and what ought to change in their...

Women in paradoxical places: `out of place' in the South and the North. (South-South Movements).
December 1, 2001... Throughout the 1990s, extremely difficult negotiations took place in the global struggle for the recognition of the fundamental nature of women's rights. The combined and courageous efforts of feminist advocates at United Nations conferences,...

Diversity, universality and democracy: a perspective of an indigenous woman. (South-South Movements).
December 1, 2001... The "Global Conference on Feminist Leadership" held in South Africa in September 1997 had a speaker on the panel on Democracy who said: "Diversity or difference is often used to rename inequality and division, and it is also very much at the...

Partners in population and development: a South-to-South initiative. (South-South Movements).
December 1, 2001... South-to-South collaboration means many things to many people. It is a means of sharing know-how between individuals, agencies and communities of the South to improve on the success of efforts to address common problems. South-to-South is...

Local Environment and Lived Experience: The Mountain Women of Himachal Pradesh.
December 1, 2001... Rural communities throughout India, particularly those in the mountains, depend on the forest for their sustenance and livelihood. However, the introduction of inappropriate development programmes combined with the growing intrusion of a...

Women and Human Rights.
December 1, 2001... Violence affects the lives of millions of women in all socio-economic and educational classes worldwide. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate fully in society. Violence against women assumes...

Women's Education: Chronicles of a Process.
December 1, 2001... By the Gender and Education Office of the International Council for Adult Education (GEO) and Red de Educacion Popular Entre Mujeres de America Latina y el Caribe (REPEM) Women's education: Chronicles of a process trails the path walked by...

Using Both Hands: Women and Education in Cambodia.
December 1, 2001... As part of a technical assistance project carried out by the Queensland Education Consortium of Australia for Asian Development Bank, the study examines the extent to which girls and women are participating in education in Cambodia and suggests...

Women and Gender Relations: The Kyrgyz Republic in Transition.
December 1, 2001... In conjunction with drafting of the country operational strategy for the Kyrgyz Republic, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) examines the role of women and children in Kyrgyz society. This gender study lays the groundwork for broadening the...

Women and Gender Relations in Kazakhstan: The Social Cost.
December 1, 2001... This book features the results of the gender study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank in 1996 in relation to the drafting of the bank's country strategy for Kazakhstan. It tackles existing initiatives on the economy, including the...

Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World.
December 1, 2001... The process of globalisation has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn to an insecure, flexible employment for the world market. The feminisation of the labour...

Women and Work: Human Resource Management Perspective.
December 1, 2001... Entry of women in all types of workplace has brought about new challenges for organisation management specialists. Whether one likes it or not, women are the new workforce of the next century. The status of knowledge about micro level...

Employment Strategies for Women in Cambodia.
December 1, 2001... The socio-economic and employment situation of women in Cambodia is examined closely and the most vulnerable groups are identified in this study funded by the Asian Development Bank. It also discusses the results of a national survey of various...

The National Policy for Women: Cambodia.
December 1, 2001... How best is it to encourage women's participation in traditional and non-traditional sectors and ensure the equitable sharing of resources in the social, cultural and economic spheres? The National Policy for Women provides guidelines and...

Gender Discrimination in the Kashmir Valley: a Survey of Budgam and Baramulla District.
December 1, 2001... The phenomenon of "gender discrimination" exists more or less in all societies of the world regardless of differences in region, religion, economy, policies, education, culture, social structure, etc. Sociological studies carried out at the...

Gender: a Cross-Cultural Perspective.
December 1, 2001... Gender Studies is a multi-disciplinary subject where new dimensions are suggested in understanding women's positions. Gender Studies, as a discipline, is gaining immense importance with the march of time, when the need to incorporate women's...

Preferring Women.
December 1, 2001... Women constitute half of the country's population. Yet Sri Lankan women have never held more than six percent of the seats at any level of government/parliamentary, provincial or local. Mario Gomez and Shymala Gomez contend that the number...

Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology.
December 1, 2001... How do cultural notions of gender affect what kinds of technologies are produced and for what purpose? How does technology affect gender roles, either by reinforcing them or by destabilising them? What is the significance of sex and gender in...

Adolescent Sexuality in the Philippines.
December 1, 2001... Adolescent research especially in the area of sexuality and its related behaviours has been scanty not only in the Philippines but also in many parts of the Asian region. This is not to diminish the importance of the subject but it has more to...

Radical Feminism Today.
December 1, 2001... A timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as "feminism" and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of...

Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern.
December 1, 2001... Why is an alliance between ecology, peace, feminism, socialism and postcolonial movements so slow in coming? In this extraordinary polyphonic text, Ariel Salleh tells us why. Informed by a critical postmodern reading of the Marxist tradition,...

Casting Pearls: the Women's Franchise Movement in Sri Lanka.
December 1, 2001... Casting Pearls: The Women's Franchise Movement in Sri Lanka is an account of the first struggles of women for the right to vote. The 1920s was a time of political excitement and social change, a time when universal suffrage was being hotly...

Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace.
December 1, 2001... Wired Women is a fascinating look at the lives of women online. The authors have put together a collection of essays from women who definitely talk back, and have much to say about online communities and culture. This book reflects what every...

Women, Media and Consumption in Japan.
December 1, 2001... The first book of its kind examine images of women in Japanese consumerism, Women, Media and Consumption in Japan explores a variety of media targeted at women-in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer...

Women in Panchayati Raj Structures.
December 1, 2001... P. Manikyamba's work is in the nature of a response to the contemporary revival of the strategies of democratic decentralisation, coupled with concern for elevating the level of women's participation in the political process of the nation. ...

Women and The Wind of Change.
December 1, 2001... There exists an imminent need to discuss and examine on a macro level the plethora of issues adversely affecting the lives of women. Vital issues are inextricably linked to the impartial evaluation of injustices perpetrated upon the stoic...

Emancipation and Empowerment of Women.
December 1, 2001... In recent times, there has been a growing body of literature on political, social, economic and management aspects of women's concerns. In this work, the author, with her intimate knowledge and incisive analysis, coupled with personal...

The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Post-feminism.
December 1, 2001... Feminism has radically altered everyday relations between people worldwide. Since its earliest days, feminism has been organised around multiple agendas and issues including pornography, sexual identity, and politics. This diversity has allowed...

Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspective.
December 1, 2001... Patrice M. Buzzanell, who also provides frameworks and analyses that could be useful for additional critiques, examines feminist approaches to some organisational communication issues. The sections progress from theoretical analyses that...

Katipunera. (literature).
December 1, 2001... Most of the poems were written between 1965 and 1973, when Elsa Coscolluela stopped writing poetry in favor of playwriting and an academic career. She resumed writing poetry in 1993, and has won two more Palanca awards, the Philippines'...

Spaces: Earthbound, Skybound. (literature).
December 1, 2001... The poems of Aida Santos, a feminist activist from the Philippines, reflect her personal refuge and her private demons, all at the same time. It also reflects her personal and public politics. She brought out her sisters' stories into focus;...

Woman: An Intimate Geography. (literature).
December 1, 2001... A celebration of the female body: its anatomy, its chemistry, its evolution and its laughter. Natalie Angler delves into the biology of being female without falling into the sludge of biological determinism. Things that women traditionally...

Kitchen. (literature).
December 1, 2001... "The place I like best this world is the in kitchen." So begins this enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two stories about mothers, transexuality, kitchens, love, and tragedy--all seen through the eyes of a pair of...

Filipino Migrant Women in the Netherlands. (literature).
December 1, 2001... Filipino Migrant Women in The Netherlands is a collection of life stories of four Filipino women which revolves around the formation of the women's selves, their consciousness of themselves as individuals, and the identities they choose to...

Paradise. (literature).
December 1, 2001... Paradise is structured around eight chapters, each bearing a woman's name, each adding a different point of view to the narrative. It's set in Ruby, a fictitious black town founded by proud, racially pure men who emerged from the fight against...

The Language of Threads: a Novel. (literature).
December 1, 2001... Gail Tsukiyama, author of three previous novels: Women of the Silk, The Samurai's Garden, and Night of Many Dreams tells the story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a young girl. In her new novel, The Language of Threads, readers...

I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted. (literature).
December 1, 2001... I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, the latest in the series of best-selling anthologies (When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple and If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies), delves into the sometimes hidden and always...

E-resources on women and South-South movements. (ISIS resource).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Women's Movements and the Challenge of Transnationalism Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Amhrest College, writes about the implications on women's movements of the growing trend toward...

Feminism is for Everybody.
December 1, 2001... Written by bell hooks For third wave generation feminists, who are unfortunately deprived of a walking and talking feminism, bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody could not have come at a better time. Many of today's feminists come...

Let girls go online: what schools should know about the Internet and its implications for young Asian women. (ICT Section).
December 1, 2001... Images of Women and Girls in the Internet When girls and young women go online, chances are they will log on to any of these websites: MTV, J.Lo, NSync, and Barbie. All glorify what is collectively known as pop culture, where...

Tapping media for women and governance. (Media Section).(Philippines)
December 1, 2001... MANILA -- A few months after Edna Tabanda won as vice governor, the second highest political post in Benguet province in the hinterlands of northern Philippines, she realised it was not enough to try making governance work for women. In...

Judge to rule on abortion, breast cancer link. (Health Section).
December 1, 2001... The debate around whether abortion increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer has intensified in recent years, with 15 American states considering mandating that women be informed of the potential harm and two states adopting such...

Electro acupuncture eases pain after breast surgery. (Health Section).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... A shocking twist on acupuncture may help women who undergo major breast, surgery recover with less nausea and pain, a new research says. Scientists say electrical stimulation that mimics needle pricks is more effective than the leading...