Gender in the 21st century /

"From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty-first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean w...

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Corporate Author: Oxfam
Other Authors: Sweetman, Caroline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxfam, 2000.
Series:Oxfam focus on gender.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial / Caroline Sweetman
  • Moving the goalposts: Gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century / Ruth Pearson
  • Gender, globalisation, and democracy / Sylvia Walby
  • Globalisation and gender training for the media: Challenges and lessons learned / Patricia A. Made
  • Women's labour and economic globalisation: A participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development / Carol Barton and Elmira Nazombe
  • 'We are forgotten on earth': International development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia / Fra von Massow
  • Rethinking gender and development practice for the twenty-first century / Judy El-Bushra
  • 'Put your money where your mouth is!': The need for public investment in women's organisations / Siobhan Riordan
  • Culture as a barrier to rural women's entrepreneurship: Experience from Zimbabwe / Colletah Chitsike
  • 'Queering' development: Exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development / Susie Jolly
  • Challenging machismo: Promoting sexual and reproductive health with Nicaraguan men / Peter Sternberg
  • Women's health and HIV: Experience from a sex workers' project in Calcutta / Madhu Bala Nath
  • Resources / Erin Murphy Graham.