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Contents:

-Classics
-Agriculture
-Beijing
-NGO Forum 95
-Women and development theory
-Clip-Art
-Women and communication
-Women and credit
-Women and culture
-Women and disability
-Economic and structural adjustment
-Gender and popular education
-Employment and labour issues
-Environment and sustainable development
-Gender analysis and planning
-Gender and institutions
-The girl child
-Women and health
-Housing
-Women and law
-Politics/Women organising
-Population and Reproductive rights
-Women, Science and Technology
-Sexualtity
-Small business and training
-Women and Trade
-Training
-Water and Sanitation
-Women’s human rights
-French and Spanish resources
-Reference
-Links related sites

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DEVELOPMENTS AT WOMEN,INK. AND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRIBUNE CENTRE

Women, Ink. is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute resources on women and development worldwide. It includes 200 titles from publishers all over the world, and is the exclusive distributor for publications from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRIBUNE CENTRE (IWTC)

Twenty years of working with women worldwide

WHO ARE WE?The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization set up in response to demands for information and resources from many of the more than 8,000 women who participated in the United Nations International Women's Year (IWY) World Conference and the non-governmental IWY Tribune in Mexico City, 1975. For the last 20 years, IWTC has played an important role as a major information, education, communication, networking, technical assistance and training resource for women worldwide. Today, IWTC continues as a networking and information clearing-house for women throughout the world, with a primary focus on the sharing of information, resources, technical assistance and training on important development issues with some 25,000 women and women's groups in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and the Middle East.

WHAT DO WE DO? Major activities include:

The Tribune, IWTC's newsletter on women and development issues: Produced in English, Spanish and French, The Tribune is intentionally designed to be adapted, reproduced and translated through the use of short articles, simple language and numerous illustrations. Development issues focused on in recent editions of The Tribune include: Women and Law; Women, Environment and Development; Women and Marketing; Claimng Our Rights; and three special editions that concentrated on plans and preparations for Beijing.

Manuals and Community Action Guides: In collaboration with partner organizations, these are designed to support women's capacity-building efforts worldwide. Productions have included those on proposal-writing and fund-raising, appropriate technology by and for women, marketing and smallbusiness, and the monitoring and implementing of plans of action that have come from UN World Conferences.

Global Faxnet/GlobalNet: Initially launched as a vehicle for sharing information on plans and preparations for the Beijing meetings in 1995, Global Faxnet --and its sister electronic network GlobalNet -- have developed into bi-weekly bulletins on follow-up activities to the Fourth World Conference and NGO Forum on Women. Global Faxnet now reaches 500 "multiplier" groups in more than 88 countries, and GlobalNet reaches tens of thousands on the Internet.

Occasional Bulletins, Conference Calendars and other Resources: In addition to its regular publications, IWTC produces materials on specific subject areas. Recent examples of these include: Preview '95 , a 24-page bulletin produced in the three years prior to Beijing, with the sixth and final edition entitled Postview '95 produced in 1996; Computer NewsNote; Funding NewsNote; Regional Focal Points for Beijing; and Conference Calendars 1, 2 and 3.

Posters, Postcards and Slide/Tape Sets: In the belief that visual materials play an important part in changing peoples perceptions and stereotypes about the roles and responsibilities of women, IWTC produces and disseminates posters and postcards that portray women as strong and purposeful players in development, and slide/tape presentations that speak of the multiple concerns and issues of women, with a focus on the gatherings of women from every world region in Mexico City (1975), Copenhagen (1980), Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995).

Technical Assistance and Training: An early leader in workshops on low-cost media production techniques, IWTC has more recently been more involved in the sharing of computer and electronic communication and information skills. Through workshops, one-on-one consultations, electronic networking, and participation in campaigns and seminars, IWTC has shared skills and information around the repackaging of information, desktop publishing and information technologies, small business and marketing strategies, proposal-writing/fund-raising, science, technology and environment issues, public policy and community action, women's human rights and development issues in general.

Women, Ink.: In 1993, IWTC branched out into a new area, that of marketing and disseminating women and development materials from a wide variety of women authors and publishers. With an emphasis on publications produced and published by women in the Global South, Women, Ink. provides "one-stop-shopping" for universities, schools, institutions and individuals who are looking for the best in writings from, for and about women involved in development issues worldwide.

WomanSource: IWTC's resource and documentation centre, WomanSource is a unique collection of materials from around the world on women and development issues. Outreach activities include electronic networking with women's documentation centres worldwide, regular bulletins on recent acquisitions, research, reference and referral services by phone, computer, fax and in one-on-one personal consultations.

WHY DO WE DO IT? Knowing that information, education and communication are key ingredients in ensuring participatory, inclusive, peaceful and sustainable development for all, IWTC collaborates with partner organizations: To increase women's access to information and resources, and to provide communicationlinks for the sharing of information, ideas and resources among individuals and groups working on behalf of women worldwide. To promote women's projects as mainstream development activities rather than as "social" programmes, and to provide technical assistance and training to support these projects wher-ever possible. To link together groups and individuals who are working on similar research, action and/or advocacy activities that are related to the improvement of the status of women, and to strengthen the institutional capabilities of women's groups that are working as advocates of change and deliverers of service to poor rural and urban women.

IWTC has publications, posters, postcards, available free of charge to groups from the South, and available at cost to groups from the North. Write for more information! iwtc@igc.apc.org

CLASSICS

Developement crisis and alternative visions

Third World Women's Perspectives

Gita Sen and Caren Grown

This classic volume is a collective effort of DAWN, the organisation of Third World activists committed to attaining social and economic justice. It links women's oppression with current crises -- debt, famine, militarisation, and fundamentalism -- that threaten women's survival, and provides recommendations for short- and long-term development.

Monthly Review Press, 1987. paper; 116 pp. ISBN 085345-718-2 US$13.00

SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL

Robin Morgan (Ed.)

Sisterhood is Global has been revered as the essential feminist text on the international women's movement since its first appearance. It features original essays from a deliberately eclectic mix of women activists, politicians, scholars, writers, and social scientists, representing 70 countries, which celebrate the similarity and diversity of women's experience and reveal shared strategies for feminist solidarity and political transformation. Each country's essay is preceded by a statistical preface data on the status of women which, despite dramatic geopolitical changes since the book's initial publication, remains virtually the same.

Sisterhood is Global became an instant classic and remains unequalled in its breadth and comprehensiveness. It includes moving essays from such distinguished writers as Marjorie Agos'n, Ama Ata Aidoo, Simone de Beauvoir, Fatima Mernissi, Nawal El Saadawi, Marilyn Waring, and Ziao Lu. With a new preface by Robin Morgan.

Feminist Press, 1996. paper; 832 pp. ISBN 1-55861-1606 US$24.95

WOMAN'S ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Ester Boserup

Boserup analyses how women have been affected by the breakdown in village-based production and by male migration to cities, and proposes new forms of education for women to ensure their participation in the modern labour force. This new edition of her classic work is superb background for those concerned with women's role in the development process.

Earthscan, 1989. paper; 288 pp. ISBN 1-853-83-0402 US$15.95

AGRICULTURE

TOOL FOR THE FIELD

Methodologies Handbook for Gender Analysis in Agriculture

Hilary Sims Feldstein and Janice Jiggins (Eds.)

Using illustrative material from 38 cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Tools for the Field provides a highly usable presentation of how development planners, trainers, and project coordinators can incorporate gender analysis in agriculture. It explains: initial diagnosis; research planning and on-farm experimentation; ongoing diagnoses; and formalising gender analysis in agricultural institutions and training programmes.

Kumarian Press, 1994. paper; 288 pp. ISBN 1-56549-028-2 US$18.95

WOMEN WIELDING THE HOE

Lessons From Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice

Deborah Fahy Bryceson (Ed.)

How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context? These and many other vital questions are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants.

Women Wielding the Hoe discusses the nature of agricultural production and social organisation, and fertility and sexuality in an agrarian context. It examines the role of outside agencies, with the objective of increasing awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development, and of exposing western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. It includes a critical review of conventional methodologies for documenting and analysing women's perspectives that will be useful in stimulating new kinds of research. Students and scholars of development, development workers, and policy-makers will find this book an important reference. Bibliography.

Berg, 1995. paper; 282 pp. ISBN 1-85973-073-6 US$19.50

BEIJING 1995

Governments in Motion One Year After the Beijing Women's Conferences

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

What are governments around the globe doing to respond to women's agendas one year after the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing? Beyond Promises constitutes a progress report on roughly half of the 189 member states that attended the Beijing conference. It includes a survey of over 50 governments on the implementation of the critical areas of concern in the Platform for Action, the main document resulting from the conference. The majority of governments surveyed reported the setting up of institutional mechanisms, while others are involving non-governmental activists in follow-up mechanisms.

Beyond Promises is a valuable guide for women's groups one year after Beijing in their efforts to monitor and remind governments of the commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women.

WEDO, 1996. paper; 87 pp. US$5.00

CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES: POST-BEIJING

This fascinating collection of essays, poems, personal narratives, and photographs commemorates progress and prospects for women's rights from the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995). It serves as a networking tool in the process established over the 10 years since the previous conference (Nairobi, 1985) and includes a range of articles that shows the commonality and the uniqueness of experiences of women within Canada and from around the world.

A historical overview and current critiques of the fight for women's rights are followed by a discussion of women's demands for social justice, with articles on sexual orientation, refugees, and education of girls and women. It concludes with a focus on current and projected consequences of the move towards global economic and political systems, and emphasises the accountability of governments to international agreements.

Canadian Woman Studies, Summer, 16 (3), 1996. periodical; 152 pp. US$8.00

ISSUES AND IMAGES OF BEIJING '95

"In September 1995 in China, two global conferences on women were held, one convened by the United Nations for the governments of the world, and one for the world's women." So begins the narrative for this slide-tape set, an audio-visual journal of the historic NGO Forum on Women '95 which was attended by at least 35,000 women from all over the world.

While not comprehensive, the slide-tape set provides a wonderful glimpse into issues and events at the Forum: workshops and meetings, marches, computer networking, book-selling, cultural events and rain-washed tents, and features groups ranging from Tibetan women in exile to women using circus acts to deal with trauma and despair. With 80 slides, a 12-minute audio tape with narrative and music, and an 8-page script, Issues and Images of Beijing '95 would be extremely useful as a stimulant for further discussion and action on behalf of women everywhere.

International Women's Tribune Centre, 1996. Slide-tape set. US$50.00

VOICES OF WOMEN

Forward With Dignity and Wholeness

Patricia Moore Harbour and Lynne Twist (Eds.)

Voices of Women reveals the courageous leadership, unforgettable spirit and global perspective from the hearts of women who attended the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995). World leaders, homemakers, scholars, CEOs, the physically challenged, grassroots activists, lesbians, policy-makers, mothers and daughters, all share their personal stories of frustration and triumph in Beijing, and the long-term commitments to action that were forged at the conference.

This anthology of essays -- on the fight for human rights, equality, sexual and reproductive rights; on spiritual quests; on the importance of families; and on the hope for world peace -- gives voice to the women who went to Beijing, what they found there, and how they became empowered to create a safe and healthy world for women and girls, men and boys.

The Fetzer Institute, 1996. paper; 92 pp. US$16.95

WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY: BEIJING AND BEYOND

Toward the Twenty-First Century of Women

Florence Howe (Ed.)

This historic double issue of the Women's Studies Quarterly provides a definitive guide to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) and the parallel NGO Forum on Women. It assembles 25 essays, reports, documents, and speeches by governmental and non-governmental leaders; first-hand reportage of the proceedings; a special section of photographs; and, the full text of the Platform for Action and accompanying commentary. It provides readers with insights into the planning preceding the meetings and the excitement of actually taking part in this unprecedented event. Since the elements of the Platform overlap significantly with those of national women's studies curricula, the volume appropriately concludes with 12 National Reports on women's studies: China, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Latvia, Korea, The Netherlands, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, and Uganda.

Beijing and Beyond is essential for anyone working to carry out the mission of the Platform and for women activists and teachers around the world.

Feminist Press, Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume XXIV Spring/Summer (1 & 2), 1996. periodical; 420 pp. ISBN 1-55861-142-8 $22.00

NGO Forum '95 Resources

The NGO Forum on Women '95 was held in Huairou, China (August 30-September 8, 1995) in conjunction with the UN Fourth World Conference on Women. The following three publications from the NGO Forum Office are available exclusively through Women, Ink.

LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES

Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions at the NGO Forum on Women, Huairou, China, September 1995

Eva Friedlander (Ed.)

The programme of plenaries at the NGO Forum '95 spanned the course of the Forum, starting on August 31 with the Opening Plenary and ending on September 8 with an Intergenerational dialogue. Look at the World Through Women's Eyes is a collection of over 70 papers delivered in the plenary sessions by renowned women activists, scholars and others who spoke on issues of critical concern to women. It is divided into three sections: Overview of Global Forces; Strategies and Mechanisms; and Accountability and Action. The message to the Forum from Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma and the address by Hilary Rodham Clinton are also included. This collection provides an invaluable overview of current global forces and the strategies women have developed to deal with them.

NGO Forum Publications, 1996. paper. US$8.95

Also available in Spanish.

THE NGO FORUM ON WOMEN '95 FINAL REPORT

The NGO Forum on Women '95 was the culminating event in a series of meetings, conferences, and work sessions convened and organised by women and NGOs in every region of the world. This report summarises regional and international preparatory activities, as well as NGO activities at the Forum in Huairou and at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. It is divided into four parts: an introduction describing the vision, goals, historical significance and organisational structures of the Forum; a description of the preparatory activities for the Fourth World Conference on Women; an outline of the activities at the Forum in Huairou; and, a list of the contributors

to the Forum.

NGO Forum Publications, 1996. paper. US$5.95

NGO FORUM '95 NEWSPAPERS

This volume contains the complete set of the NGO Forum '95 daily newspaper (nine issues) produced by an international team of journalists at the NGO Forum in Huairou. In convenient booklet format.

NGO Forum Publications, 1996. paper. US$7.95

SPECIAL PRICE FOR SET OF 3 NGO FORUM PUBLICATIONS: $14.95!

SEE ALSO: Without Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women's Human Rights.(Category: Women's Human Rights)

WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT THEORY

GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: RETHINKING MODERNIZATION AND DEPENDENCY THEORY

Catherine V. Scott

This study applies a feminist critical reading to develop modernisation and development theory further, including: conceptualisation of tradition and gender in modernisation theory; the nature and role of the state in Africa; modernisation theory in practice at the World Bank; Marxism, masculinity and dependency theory; and challenges to dependency in the context of Southern Africa. It is important reading for advanced students and scholars of development and Third World Studies.

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996. paper; 149 pages. ISBN 1-55587-664-1. US$16.95

A COMMITMENT TO THE WORLD'S WOMEN

Perspectives on a Development Agenda for Beijing and Beyond

Noeleen Heyzer (Ed.)

What is the specific development agenda that women worldwide have been calling for over the past 20 years of organising, activism, and UN world conferences? In this anthology, more than 15 authors present a multiplicity of visions of a women's development agenda for the major global issues of our time: economic restructuring, sustainable livelihoods, healthy communities, and governance and decision-making.

UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 220 pp. ISBN 0-912917-38-5 US$14.95

SEE ALSO: Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development (Category: Environment and Sustainable Development).

FEMINISM/POST-MODERNISM/DEVELOPMENT

Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart

In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested, especially between voices from the South and the North.

Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this power struggle. It brings together specialists on gender and development in an investigation of whether a more politicised and accessible version of post-modernist feminist thought could have relevance for the problems facing women worldwide. Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as of women of colour, this collection questions established development practice and suggests the need to incorporate issues of identity, representation, indigenous knowledge, and political action. It acknowledges the importance of Third World and minority women's experiences for development, and explores the limitations and strengths of post-modernist feminist insights for gender and development theory.

Routledge, 1995. paper; 275 pp. ISBN 0-415-10524-2 US$17.95

GENDER

A Caribbean Multidisciplinary Approach

Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Barbara Bailey and Christine Barrow (Eds.)

This pioneering comprehensive study of gender issues in the Caribbean region brings together a wide range of research findings, theoretical perspectives and policy prescriptions. It highlights issues and experiences in the Caribbean, with comparative perspectives from outside the region. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it shows how research, teaching, and practice of gender issues can be linked together to provide a basis for the institutionalisation of women's studies programmes and for policy prescriptions.

The book provides a framework for addressing gender issues as they relate to: the legal position of women; education and the historical context of the Caribbean woman; the arts and humanities; a research agenda and policy reform in health-care systems; and agriculture. The culmination of the faculty development aspect of a project between the University of the West Indies and the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, these papers constitute a remarkable collection of thought on the issues facing Caribbean women.

Ian Randle Press, 1996. paper; 358 pp. ISBN 0-85255-250-5 US$22.95

GENDER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Conceptual and Theoretical Issues

Ruth Meena (Ed.)

This book presents the ideas of women scholars from Southern Africa exploring alternative development models, "African feminism" -- its roots, power, and application to development -- and an African feminist critique of Western feminism. It includes a gender analysis of the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa and its relationship to poverty and the subordination of women.

SAPES Books, 1992. paper; 201 pp. ISBN 0-7974-1162-3 US$25.00

SEE ALSO: Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Category: Health).

HALF THE WORLD, HALF A CHANCE

An Introduction to Gender and Development

Julia Cleves Mosse

Half the World, Half a Chance discusses how and why women are disadvantaged by social structures and current development initiatives. Case studies of action by women's organisations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America document the efforts of women to overcome oppressive structures and to achieve genuine development.

Oxfam Publications, 1993. paper; 229 pp. ISBN 0-85598-186-5 US$15.95

RADICALLY SPEAKING

Feminism Reclaimed

Diane Bell and Renate Klein

Since the late 1960s radical feminism has articulated analyses of oppression based on an understanding of the interlocking power of racism, classism, and patriarchy. Its projects include Take Back the Night campaigns, establishing women's refuge centres, rape crisis centres, health centres, organising against pornography and developing courses in Women's Studies. The book argues that radical feminist theory and practice are often misrepresented or unknown. Radically Speaking tells this story, showing that developments in the former Yugoslavia, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Chile resonate with the experience of women in the USA, Norway, the UK, Australia, Germany and New Zealand.

This remarkable volume of 70 feminist voices, distinguished by their continuity through time, global reach, politics of engagement and passionate determination to create a better world for women, is important reading for women's studies, gender and development, and cultural studies.

Spinifex, 1996. paper; 624 pp. ISBN 1-875559-38-8 US$29.95

REVERSED REALITIES

Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought

Naila Kabeer

Reversed Realities provides a dynamic reassessment of development theory with a focus on gender. It examines alternative frameworks for analysing gender hierarchies; identifies the household as the primary site for the construction of power relations; assesses the inadequacy of the poverty line as a measuring tool; and provides a critical overview of population control. This book is appropriate for advanced students and researchers of development.

Verso, 1994. paper; 346 pp. ISBN 0-86091-584-0 US$18.95

THE ELUSIVE AGENDA

Rounaq Jahan

The Elusive Agenda reviews the progress achieved in making gender a central concern in the development process. It evaluates selected bilateral and multilateral donor agencies which play a critical role in shaping the development agenda. It presents an innovative conceptual framework for analysing women-in-development objectives and strategies, and for establishing indicators for assessing progress.

Zed Books, 1995. paper; 160 pp. ISBN 1-85649-274-5 US$17.50

SEE ALSO: Focusing on Women: UNIFEM's Experience in Mainstreaming.

WHAT IS PATRIARCHY?

Kamla Bhasin

What is Patriarchy locates women's struggles for social change in the context of patriarchal control of major social, economic, political and cultural institutions. Its question-and-answer format makes it a highly accessible introduction to understanding patriarchy and its origins.

Kali for Women, 1993. paper; 41 pp. ISBN 81-85107-73-4 US$4.95

WOMEN AT THE CENTER

Development Issues and Practices for the 1990s

Gay Young, Vidyanali Samarasinghe and Ken Kusterer (Eds.)

This anthology provides an excellent introduction to, and overview of, women and development issues. It discusses how women's encounters with development theories and practices have transformed methodologies for implementing development activities, and how women's participation is at the very core of social change in areas such as AIDS, the environment, and nationalist conflict.

Kumarian Press, 1993. paper; 222 pp. ISBN 1-56549-029-0 US$16.95

CLIP-ART

WHERE THERE IS NO ARTIST

Development Drawings and How to Use Them

Petra Röhr-Rouendaal

Where There is No Artist contains more than 500 drawings of women and men, individually and in groups, on a wide range of educational and health issues and problems in an "accessible style, well suited to the requirement of illustrations for development." It describes basic drawing skills and how to adapt the illustrations, without special equipment, to different situations and audiences. With advice on pre-testing materials and on how to make other visual aids such as comic strips and puppets, this material will be extremely useful for NGOs, fieldworkers, teachers and others who wish to produce appropriate illustrations in the community for educational purposes. List of resources.

IT Publications, 1997. paper; 123 pages. ISBN 1-85339-391-6. US$14.95

This selection of graphics from the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) offers strong positive images of women engaged in a range of activities. The clip-art may be reproduced provided appropriate credit is given.

FEMINIST LOGOS AND SYMBOLS

Feminist signs and symbols used by women's groups worldwide serve as the unifying thread in this clip art collection. Text in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. IWTC, 1984 updated/reprinted 1991. paper; 27 pp. US$5.00

RURAL WOMEN IN ACTION

Feminist signs and symbols used by women's groups worldwide serve as the unifying thread in this clip-art collection. Text in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.

IWTC, 1984 updated/reprinted 1991. paper; 25 pp. US$5.00

WOMAN

The Password is Action

This is a collection of images of women marching with signs and participating in public meetings, small groups and workshops has blank signs so users can write their own group's messages. The book also suggests how to adapt illustrations to fit different cultural settings. Text in English, French, and Spanish.

IWTC, 1988. paper; 160 pp. US$8.00

WOMEN AND COMMUNICATION

TRADITIONAL MEDIA FOR GENDER COMMUNICATION

Pamela Brooke

This training manual focuses on planning and conducting effective two-way communication through a process of community self-diagnosis, mobilisation and action. It describes how to use traditional media for participatory gender communication: conducting research at the village level; identifying issues and themes; planning the presentation; developing story dramas and skits, music, songs and dance; developing slogans and pictures; and involving the audience. With detailed description of purpose, participants, materials and activities, this manual can be used to help families and communities use traditional media for stimulating reflective dialogue on gender issues and preventing conflict. Photographs; vignettes.

PACT Publications, 1996. paper; 68 pages. US$15.00

AN UNFINISHED STORY

Gender Patterns in Media Employment

Margaret Gallagher with My von Euler

An Unfinished Story shows that, although more women work in the mass media today than ever before, progress is still slow in a range of areas. It examines gender differences in training for, and the gender division of labour in, media employment, followed by a focus on employment patterns in specific media. The report then examines the management of media organisations, identifies obstacles to women in media employment, and highlights measures to overcome these obstacles. Specific chapters provide extensive gender-differentiated statistics and charts across regions on these topics.

The global analysis and the wealth of data in this report make it a unique resource for all interested in gender issues in media and communication.

UNESCO, 1995. paper; 120 pp. ISBN 92-3-103208-9 US$13.95

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

International Feminisms

This special issue of the Journal of International Communications presents a mix of voices on international feminisms and communication, showing how new theorising in this area is enriched with the inclusion of a gender focus.

The articles critique the dominant paradigms of communications and development. They include case studies of women, media technologies, and global solidarity that analyse technological and organisational problems, and describe creative solutions. They examine the unequal access of women to new technologies, and how women make creative use of existing facilities. They argue that despite economic and cultural differences, there is a sufficiently agreed-upon agenda and shared concerns for 'global feminism' to have real meaning. This volume will be of interest to all concerned about addressing long-neglected questions about women's issues in communications, media, technology, and development.

Journal of International Communications, Vol. 3(1), 1996. periodical; 152 pp. US$10.00

WOMEN IN GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATION

Effecting Global Social Change

Pilar RiaNo (Ed.)

Women in Grassroots Communication, with contributors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America, lays out a framework of analysis, and explores informal and formal communication networks women use in their own communities to create avenues for democratic communication and foster social change. It addresses issues of identity, collective process, and leadership raised by the emergence of women in the media.

Sage Publications, 1994. paper; 332 pp. ISBN 0-8039-4906-5 US$24.95

WOMEN TRANSFORMING COMMUNICATION

Global Intersections

Donna Allen, Ramona R. Rush and Susan J. Kaufman (Eds.)

This book provides a one-of-a-kind account of the strategies for liberating communication systems from gender and cultural biases, especially in those areas where women and minorities have been traditionally excluded.

A platform for feminist discourse on topics ranging from the military and academia to grassroots communication and courtroom justice, each of the 34 chapters voices issues important to women in the 21st century. Different sections examine past, present and future visions of communications; difficulties and problems with communications and the media; and the transformation of communications into equitable and inclusive relationships in the context of traditional, informal, and alternative communications networks for women.

Sage Publications, 1996. paper; 377 pp. ISBN 0-8039-7267-9 US$38.00

WOMEN, INFORMATION AND THE FUTURE

Collecting and Sharing Resources Worldwide

Eva Steiner Moseley (Ed.)

The articles in this volume describe women's libraries and documentation centres, and the challenge of facilitating access to information for women worldwide. It addresses topics such as technology applications, classification, and archiving procedures; new information formats; the role of information in advancing human rights; access to women's health resources; implications of the interdisciplinary nature of women's studies; and outreach to minority and immigrant women.

Highsmith Press, 1995. paper; 296 pp. ISBN 0-917846-67-2 US$20.00

WOMEN AND CREDIT

MICROFINANCE AND POVERTY REDUCTION

Susan Johnson and Ben Rogaly

The potential of savings, credit and other financial services to support the livelihoods of poor people, especially women and other microentrepreneurs, is increasingly being recognised. Microfinance and Poverty Reduction points out that while microfinance interventions can raise incomes and change social relations for the better, they do not always do so. It introduces and overviews the current debates on microfinance; explores the rich variety of informal financial services used by the poor; emphasises the importance of the local context in deciding whether and how to intervene; discusses the design of a microfinance scheme; examines ways to sustain the provision of financial services in the long term; and reviews difficulties in and ways of assessing impact. Includes case-studies.

Oxfam Publications, 1997. paper; 134 pages. ISBN 0-85598-369-8. US$14.95

ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH

AN END TO DEBT

Operational Guidelines for Credit Projects

Ellen Pruyne (Ed.)

This book addresses each stage of the project cycle in establishing or managing a credit programme for women, relevant issues and decisions to be made at each stage, and policies to guide those decisions. It is based on projects of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and its partner organisations over the past 15 years to ensure access to affordable credit for poor women. UNIFEM, 1993. paper; 111 pp. ISBN 0-912917-44-X US$15.95

Also available in Spanish and French.

BEYOND CREDIT

A Subsector Approach to Promoting Women's Enterprises

Martha Chen (Ed.)

Beyond Credit introduces participatory subsector analysis as an effective approach to promoting women's enterprises, identifying new and growth sectors of economic activity to help ensure that poor women are appropriately trained. Includes case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Chile, the Philippines and Canada.

Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 1996. paper; 151 pp. ISBN 0-969662-0-2 US$19.95

FINANCING WOMEN'S ENTERPRISES

Beyond Barriers and Bias

Thea Hilhorst and Harry Oppenoorth

Integrating numerous experiences of financial programmes with insights from gender studies and women and development programmes, Financing Women's Enterprises examines the need of poor, self-employed women for financial services, and analyses the ways this demand is presently met. It suggests methods to ensure access to adequate financing and financial services.

IT Publications/Royal Tropical Institute/ UNIFEM, 1992. paper; 96 pp. ISBN 90-6832-705-4 US$18.95

MONEY MATTERS

Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs With Financial Services

Gloria Almeyda

For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services is critical to their ability to make productive investments in their business. Money Matters synthesises the results of a study by the Inter-American Development Bank of the kinds of financial services offered to these women by a range of institutions -- commercial banks, credit unions, and NGOs -- in six countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. What services are available? What are loan sizes and what are their characteristics? What activities do the services finance?

This book shows that in addition to the pioneering work of NGOs in lending to women microentrepreneurs, the current supply of financial services to women micro-entrepreneurs is more diverse than had been assumed until now, and thereby opens a window on the future of women's access to financial services.

Inter-American Development Bank, 1996. paper; 154 pp.ISBN 1-886938-15-6 US$15.00

OUR MONEY, OUR MOVEMENT

Building a Poor People's Credit Union

Alana Albee and Nandasiri Gamage

Our Money, Our Movement illustrates a fundamental tenet of the credit union movement: that financial services can be controlled and managed by the poor, rather than merely delivered to them. It describes how this goal has been reached in the working of the Women's Credit Union in Sri Lanka. This book includes people's own portrayals of their lives and illustrates how low-income people's efforts can shift the purely economic view of development to include social and cultural aspects. This is essential reading for development agency staff, and others interested in credit and savings initiatives and women's organising. Tables; illustrations; photographs.

IT Publications, 1996. paper; 46 pp. ISBN 1-85339-388-6 US$15.50

VILLAGE BANKING

The State of the Practice

From its roots in Central and South America in the 1980s, village banking is now creating autonomous institutions in more than 28 countries, enabling very poor communities, especially women, to accumulate and manage assets. This book analyses the experience of 68 programmes, their organisational structures, their strategies for attaining self-sufficiency, and their impact.

SEEP Network/UNIFEM, 1996. paper; 100 pp. ISBN 0-912-917-39-3 US$12.95

WOMEN AND CULTUR

AGAINST ALL ODDS

Essays on Women, Religion and Development from India and Pakistan

Kamla Bhasin, Nighat Said Khan and Ritu Menon (Eds.)

This book examines the institution of personal law in South Asia, presents interviews with women across the political and religious spectrum, and analyses advocacy efforts. It reviews the role that religion can play to advance social change and equality, and the resistance being mounted by women to challenge its most obvious oppressions.

Kali for Women (Second Edition), 1994. paper; 191 pp. ISBN 81-85107-74-2 US$10.00

CONNECTING ACROSS CULTURES AND CONTINENTS

Black Women Speak Out on Identity, Race and Development

Achola O. Pala (Ed.)

This collection of essays presents a cross-cultural multi-disciplinary critique of racism both as a development issue and as a challenge to the international women's movement. It provides a thought-provoking analysis of black women worldwide who are working to transcend their alienation, to validate their heritage, and to escape the tyranny of racial discrimination. Bibliography.

UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 89 pp. ISBN 0-912917-35-0 US$9.95

MUSLIM WOMEN'S CHOICES

Camilla Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro (Eds.)

This book presents a cross-cultural perspective of Muslim women's experiences and choices in diverse social settings. The papers focus on the manner in which Muslim women consciously and unconsciously accommodate religious belief to their social reality, and on gender roles and relationships in countries ranging from Iran and Egypt to Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

Berg, 1994. paper; 206 pp. ISBN 0-85496-836-9 US$17.50

OUR LIFE

A View of Maasai Women

This book focuses on the Maasai women of Kenya, who are part of an ecosystem management programme for sustainable exploitation of natural resources. The programme used a new "photo-appraisal" technique: small groups of women were asked to discuss the good and bad things in their lives, and to take photographs of these. The resulting book is a fascinating series of photographs taken by the women, supported by their own voices.

Centre of Biodiversity of the National Museums of Kenya, 1995. paper; 55 pp.ISBN 9966-9861-1-1 US$15.00

WOMEN AND RIGHT-WING MOVEMENTS

Indian Experiences

Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia (Eds.)

The contributors to this fascinating volume are activists and researchers living in India. They present a gendered perspective on Indian right-wing politics, focusing on the violent communalism which is pulling women into militant politics, particularly into the Hindu right.

Zed Books, 1996. paper; 224 pp. ISBN 1-85649-290-7 US$19.95

WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

A Study of Human Capabilities

Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover (Eds.)

This collection of papers examines social, economic, and ethical questions related to the struggle for gender equality and justice. It discusses the methodology and foundations of studies of women's equality, followed by an exposition of theories of justice, law and reason. Regional perspectives are presented from China, Mexico, India and Nigeria.

Oxford University Press, 1996. paper; 496 pp. ISBN 0-19-828964-2 US$19.95

WOMEN'S REBELLION AND ISLAMIC MEMORY

Fatima Mernissi

Women's Rebellion presents a sustained analysis of women in Islamic thought, the construction of femininity in the Muslim unconscious, and of some formulations of gender. Chronicling ten years of research, Mernissi, one of the most important and eloquent feminist intellectuals of our time, examines a range of issues fundamental to the status of Muslim women, including economic and demographic indicators. She discusses the effect of state prescriptions about women's roles, activities and spheres on women's lives and on the creative and spiritual life of a culture.

Mernissi demonstrates the existence of a more open Islam at its historical origins, from which subsequent constructions have emerged as strongly partisan. Passionately argued, this work will be essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, sociology, Middle Eastern studies and social theory.

Zed Books, 1996. paper; 131 pp. ISBN 1-85649-398-9 US$17.50

ZIMBABWE WOMEN'S VOICES

Ciru Getecha and Jesimen Chipika (Eds.)

How do you build an effective women's movement? Why do women sometimes subscribe to oppressive cultural practices? What are the obstacles to girls' education? This visually stunning book records the voices of two thousand rural and thirty urban Zimbabwean women talking about these and a whole array of other issues affecting their lives: education; health; land and environment; politics; business and economic development; formal employment; violence; media; and culture. This collection of interviews, interspersed with poetry and personal accounts, is enriched with statistics, colourful graphs, and photographs.

Created and designed by Zimbabwean women, this is a wonderful resource which, while drawing the reader into a distinct cultural experience, also speaks to the struggle of women all over the world.

Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network, 1995. paper; 175 pp. ISBN 0-7974-1522-X US$15.00

WOMEN AND DISABILITY

GENDER AND DISABILITY

Women's Experiences in the Middle East

Lina Abu-Habib

Gender and Disability looks at the situation of women with a variety of disabilities in the Middle Eastern context. Because gender discrimination is a marked feature of many Middle Eastern societies, studying the lives of disabled women in the region makes it very clear how gender and disability interact as factors of social differentiation. The implications for the work of NGOs are that much more attention must be given to the particular needs of disabled women, to supporting them as they assert their rights, and also to changing social attitudes with regard to gender as well as disability. The book contains detailed case study material and photographs, as well as a theoretical discussion of the issues.

OXFAM, June 1997. paper; 64 pp. ISBN 0-85598-363-9 US$9.95

LOUD, PROUD AND PASSIONATE

Including Women with Disabilities in International Development Programs

This book addresses an area long underrepresented in development programmes: the inclusion of women with disabilities. This volume from Mobility International will be an invaluable resource for all those working with, or interested in, issues pertaining to women with disabilities. It overviews key issues and strategies of women with disabilities around the world, with special focus on women in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Loud, Proud and Passionate describes projects organised by, and for, women with disabilities to improve opportunities for income generation, education, health, and full participation in communities. It profiles women with disabilities who have organised at grassroots, at national and international levels, and features their recommendations. It suggests practical strategies for outreach, inclusion, and support of women with disabilities that are appropriate for women's and development organisations. Its resource list includes materials and organisations in different countries.

Mobility International USA, June 1997. paper; 200 pp. US$19.95

WOMEN AND DISABILITY

Prepared by Esther Boylan

Combining information, analysis, and accounts from disabled women, this book lays bare the stigma of disability and argues for the rights of disabled women to sexuality and marriage. It discusses how disability among women can be prevented, the positive roles of rehabilitation, education, and employment, and describes innovative projects worldwide that are giving women new hope.

Zed Books, 1991. paper; 111 pp. ISBN 0-86232-987-6 US$15.95

RURAL WOMEN IN MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

A Training Manual for Extension Workers

This comprehensive training manual was developed through two years of ILO projects in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to assist extension staff working with women's enterprises. Rural Women in Micro-enterprise Development contains guidelines and materials for the workshops (3-5 days each) that were supplemented with fieldwork ("Back Home Action Plans") to provide practical skills and tools in each phase of microenterprise development and management, including: environmental scanning, group dynamics, planning and management; marketing management; financial management; and feasibility studies. With illustrations, charts and activities, this is an excellent resource for the training of trainers, and can be adapted to different socio-cultural contexts.

International Labour Office, 1996. binder; 367 pages. US$54.00

GENDER AND COMMAND OVER PROPERTY

An Economic Analysis of South Asia

Bina Agarwal

This monograph on the links between gender inequities and command over property focuses on rural South Asia, where any significant improvement in women's economic and social situation is crucially tied to their having independent land rights. But despite progressive legislation, few South Asian women own land; few ever effectively control any. Gender and Command Over Property describes a complex range of factors -- social, administrative and ideological -- that underlie the persistent gap between women's legal rights and their actual ownership of land, and between ownership and control. It also discusses the necessity of collective action to overcome these obstacles, and aspects needing a specific focus for policy and action.

Kali for Women, 1994. paper; 51 pages. ISBN 81-85107-31-9. US$6.00

A FIELD OF ONE'S OWN

Gender and Land Rights in South Asia

Bina Agarwal

This award-winning study of gender and property in South Asia argues that the huge gender gap in property ownership and control is a critical determinant of women's economic and social status. It analyses how gender relations get constituted and contested, traditional rights and practices in specific communities, and contemporary laws. Illustrations; tables.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. paper; 572 pp. ISBN 0-521-42926-9 US$36.95

GENDER, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY

Market Growth and State Planning in Asia and the Pacific

Noeleen Heyzer and Gita Sen (Eds.)

To what extent do macro-planning and poverty alleviation programmes of the Asia-Pacific region benefit women? This selection from presentations at a policy dialogue meeting (Vietnam, 1990) evaluates the extent to which current approaches have impacted on the poor and on a range of activities crucial to socio-economic development.

Kali for Women/International Books, 1994. paper; 395 pp. ISBN 90-6224-984-1 US$29.00

THE HUMAN COST OF WOMEN'S POVERTY

Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

This anthology offers regional perspectives on the priority issues of the Social Summit (Copenhagen 1995) -- poverty, employment, and social integration. Covering such topics as structural adjustment, approaches to understanding women's poverty, and inequality in access to employment, these ten articles (some in Spanish) help to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact and potential of development.

UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 161 pp. US$12.95

MORTGAGING WOMEN'S LIVES

Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment

Pamela Sparr (Ed.)

Mortgaging Women's Lives documents the effects of stringent World Bank and IMF prescriptions on women in countries as diverse as Turkey, Ghana, Egypt, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Nigeria, and Jamaica. Introductory chapters define structural adjustment in accessible language and critique its implications from a feminist perspective. Case studies then investigate long-term employment and income-generating effects.

Zed Books, 1994. paper; 214 pp. ISBN 1-85650-102-1 US$22.50

SHADOWS BEHIND THE SCREEN

Economic Restructuring and Asian Women

Maggie Paterson (Ed.)

While global restructuring has broadened economic opportunities for many women in Asia, it has also caused increased job insecurity, harsh working conditions, and even a kind of statelessness for migrant women workers. Located in the activism of the women's movement, this report provides unique insight into the microdimensions of the impact of global economic restructuring on the lives of women all across Asia. Country chapters -- on South China and Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines -- review the nature and extent of national and international interventions, present interviews with individual women, and conclude with an extensive reference section, including descriptive statistics on social and economic indicators.

Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives/ Catholic Institute for International Relations, Asian Exchange 11(1), June 1995. periodical; 237 pp. ISBN 0256-7520 US$13.50

SILK AND STEEL

Asian Women Workers Confront Challenges of Industrial Restructuring

Helene O'Sullivan (Ed.)

This compilation of research papers analyses the impact of industrial restructuring policies on Asian women workers in the industrial sector over the last decade. With a specifically Asian analytical framework of the new regional division of labour, Silk and Steel exposes the use of "young, cheap and docile" women workers as central to the development of export-processing light manufacturing industries: women workers are the first contributors to, as well as the first victims of, industrial restructuring in Asia. It contains case studies and secondary data from Hong Kong, South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh, examining technology, employment practices, and investment and market patterns.

With interviews, statistics and analysis, this book is a valuable resource for those interested in the Asian region and the impact of restructuring on the lives of women.

Committee for Asian Women, 1995. paper; 304 pp. US$21.95

SPEAKING OUT

Women's Economic Empowerment in South Asia

Marilyn Carr, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala (Eds.)

This volume draws together the experiences of seven South Asian NGOs in organising rural and urban poor women for economic empowerment. Going beyond the normal descriptive accounts of the work of these NGOs, Speaking Out throws new light on how changes are occurring at the grassroots level, and analyses and defines economic empowerment from the perspective of women themselves.

Through case studies, the book demonstrates how women are gaining increased access to, and control over, economic resources and how this has led to far-reaching socio-cultural and political changes at the individual, family, and community levels. It also shows how women are building and taking control of their own organisations which are becoming increasingly more autonomous and financially self-reliant. This book will be of relevance to students of development and women's studies, development planners and practitioners, women's organisations, and those with an interest in South Asia.

IT Publications, 1996. paper; 238 pp. ISBN 1-85339-382-7 US$18.95

THE STRATEGIC SILENCE

Gender and Economic Policy

Isabel Bakker

This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on restructuring and adjustment. It applies feminist scholarship to macroeconomics, discusses current macroeconomic methods and policies, and proposes elements of a more gender-aware economics. It also offers reflections on state, economy, and household relations based on research and case studies from Canada, Indonesia, Turkey, Mexico, Iran, and Chile.

Zed Books, 1995. paper; 170 pp.ISBN 1-85649-262-1 US$17.50

WOMEN PAY THE PRICE

Structural Adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean

Gloria T. Emeagwali (Ed.)

The fundamental thesis of this book is that structural adjustment policies have intensified the feminisation of poverty, reversing a great deal of the socioeconomic gains of the post-colonial era in Africa and the Caribbean. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines effects on women of the removal of subsidies for health and education, privatisation, and currency devaluation.

Africa World Press, 1995. paper; 165 pp. ISBN 0-86543-4298. US$16.95