CD97 - women and health

WOMEN AND HEALTH

HEALTH CARE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Helen M. Wallace, Kanti Giri and Carlos V. Serrano

With over 70 essays by doctors, health-care practitioners, and policy-makers, Health Care of Women and Children in Developing Countries is one of the most comprehensive volumes available on the topic. Section I overviews women's health, including issues such as poverty, family planning programmes, and urbanisation. Section II examines sexual and reproductive health. Section III emphasises infant and child mortality in different countries, and is followed by chapters on child health, touching on immunisations, respiratory infections, nutrition, street children, and school health services. Adolescent health is reviewed in Section V. Section VI analyses maternal, child health, and family planning programmes of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, and USAID.

Coming after the Earth Summit (Rio, 1992) and the Population Conference (Cairo, 1994), this edition is a valuable reference for all those interested in the health of women and families in the South. Bibliography; tables; graphs.

Third Party Publishing Company (Second edition), 1995. paper; 754 pp. ISBN 0-89914-043-2 US$34.95

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH BOOK

The Women's Health Project

This remarkable volume, reflecting the collective work of nearly 500 women from all communities in South Africa, is a comprehensive handbook that provides basic information about women's health. It includes clear and accessible chapters on gender, culture, healthy living, violence, work, disability, sexuality, reproductive health, fertility control, pregnancy and childbirth, ageing, and alternative medicine. Packed with information and useful illustrations, and with women's authentic stories woven throughout, this book helps women make informed decisions about their mental, physical and social health, and well-being. It offers medically authoritative, holistic approaches to health, and guidelines for health and gender education. Although rooted in the South African context, this book will find a valued place in the offices of health professionals and academics, in clinics and community centres, and in the home, all over the world. Includes: list of resources and organisations in South Africa; guidelines for building self-help groups; and further reading.

Oxford University Press, 1996. paper; 516 pp. ISBN 0-19-571254-4 US$22.95

WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR

A Health Guide for Women

Arlene Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell and Kathy Shapiro

The first comprehensive community-based health book for women, Where Women Have No Doctor helps women and girls from different cultures and educational backgrounds learn how to take care of themselves. The book combines medical information with an understanding of how poverty, discrimination, and culture affect women's health and access to health care. Topics include: how the body works; proper use of medicines; AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; pregnancy, birth and breast-feeding; sexuality; mental health; refugee health; violence against women; disabilities; and a special section on the politics of women's health.

From the publishers of the popular Where There Is No Doctor, this book was developed with the help of community-based groups, village health workers and women's health experts in more than 30 countries. Written in simple English, all 32 chapters, as well as the 1500 illustrations from women artists worldwide, have been field-tested and reviewed for appropriateness.

The Hesperian Foundation, March 1997. paper; 600 pp. ISBN 0-942364-25-2 US$20.00

WOMEN, POVERTY AND AIDS

Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence

Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors and Janie Simmons (Eds.)

The face of AIDS is increasingly that of a woman: in some regions women already constitute the majority of those infected. This timely book overviews the status of women in the global AIDS pandemic, and analyses large-scale economic, political, and cultural forces that continue to place millions of women at increased risk for HIV infection.

The first section reflects on AIDS from the perspectives of poor women. This is followed by a critique of the relevant social science, public health, and clinical literature. The last section describes the AIDS-related work of organisations working for poor women. With mini case studies, charts, discussion, glossary, and an extensive bibliography, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for all those concerned about AIDS and public health issues.

Common Courage Press, 1996. paper; 473 pp.ISBN 1-56751-074-4 US$19.95

SEE ALSO: Gender in Southern Africa: Conceptual and Theoretical issues (Category: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues).

HOUSING

WOMEN AND URBAN SETTLEMENTS

Caroline Sweetman (Ed.)

The Second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II; Istanbul, June 1996) focused attention on the increasingly inadequate availability of housing and basic services, and the growing number of de facto female-headed households. This new title in Oxfam's Focus on Gender series thus comes as a timely resource to understand the links between people's -- especially women's -- physical surroundings and what they do to survive. Case studies from Jordan, China, Guayaquil, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia examine issues such as gender-sensitive urban planning; work-migration; government and NGO community urban regeneration schemes; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees. List of resources; bibliography.

OXFAM, 1996. paper; 64 pp. ISBN 0-85598-348-5 US$11.95

WOMEN AND LAW

ADVOCACY KIT ON THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 and ratified by 139 UN member states, is essentially a bill of rights for women. This kit contains five booklets and nine information sheets on its provisions, its relevance to women's human rights, and the compatibility between CEDAW and the Child Rights Convention.

UNIFEM/UNICEF, 1995. paper; 45 pp. US$5.95

Also available in Spanish and French.

EMPOWERMENT AND THE LAW

Strategies of Third World Women

Margaret Schuler (Ed.)

The 50 case studies in this book describe how women worldwide are gaining the skills needed to enforce the law or to challenge it in order to assert rights, redress injustices or gain access to economic and political resources. Issues addressed include: the state, law and development; custom, religion, ethnicity and law; and violence and exploitation.

OEF International, 1986. paper; 472 pp. ISBN 0-912917-11-3 US$20.00

LEGAL LITERACY

A Tool for Women's Empowerment

Margaret Schuler and Sakuntala Kadirgamar-Rajasingham (Eds.)

This book explores legal literacy as a process for women's empowerment, and critiques existing methods and programmes. Presenting experiences and strategies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Legal Literacy examines ways of promoting women's capacities to understand the law; to assert rights; and to change limiting definitions of gender roles, status, and rights in the law and in daily practice.

OEF International/UNIFEM, 1992. paper; 340 pp. ISBN 0-912917-25-3 US$24.00

STATE RESPONSES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Current Status and Needed Improvements

Women, Law and Development International

What laws exist to address domestic violence? How effective have they been? What can be done to improve the situation? Answers to these questions and an overview of current legal responses to domestic violence are provided in this report, which draws on both a review of laws and a survey of women's rights advocates worldwide. It outlines international human rights instruments that support the adoption of laws in this area, and provides a model for drafting legislation.

State Responses is also intended to serve as a resource for both governments and NGOs worldwide to use in advocating for specific changes in the treatment of domestic violence within their country's legal system.

Women, Law and Development International, 1996. paper; 151 pp. US$10.00

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS STEP BY STEP

A Practical Guide For Using International Law And Mechanisms To Defend Women's Human Rights

Women's Human Rights Step by Step provides an overall guide to human rights mechanisms and strategies at all levels and in all regions. It describes, in simple language, the concept and content of human rights law and its applicability to women, and provides tools which can be adapted to suit different legal and political contexts. Case studies show how women's human rights advocates are using the human rights system successfully to enforce their rights. The manual can be used as a beginning 'course' for activists; as a reference to selected human rights mechanisms; as a process tool for developing human rights strategies; and as a guide for documenting abuses. Glossary; list of instruments and ratifications; resources.

Women, Law and Development International/ Women's Rights Project, 1997. paper; 200 pp. US$20.00

WOMEN, LAW AND DEVELOPMENT

Action for Change

Margaret Schuler (Ed.)

These case studies present actions that have been taken by women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to improve women's legal status. Also included are papers on the growth of networks on women, law and development in each of the three regions, as well as projections for future work.

OEF International, 1990. paper; 116 pp. US$8.00

WOMEN OF THE WORLD

Formal Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives

This book reviews the formal laws and policies of Brazil, China, India, Germany, Nigeria and the United States, identifies the factors underlying policy differences in each country, and provides summary statistics on a range of issues: population and family planning; contraception, including abortion and sterilisation; sexually transmitted diseases; safe motherhood; sexual violence; and patient rights.

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1995. paper; 40 pp. US$5.00

WOMEN

Watched and Punished

Latin American Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights

This report, based on a regional seminar on Criminal Law and Women (Brazil, 1992) analyses the position of women in the justice systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses a range of women's human rights violations, strategies to achieve legal reform, and the experience of groups struggling against these problems.

CLADEM, 1993. paper; 316 pp. US$25.00

POLITICS/WOMEN ORGANISING

A RISING PUBLIC VOICE

Women in Politics Worldwide

Alida Brill (Ed.)

This book recounts, through essays, profiles, and interviews, the experiences of women politicians from over two dozen countries with respect to politics and lawmaking; their agendas and political styles relative to those of men; their management of family and national responsibilities; and the intense public scrutiny of their personal lives.

The Feminist Press, 1995. paper; 284 pp. ISBN 1-55861-111-8 US$17.95

ASSERTIONS OF SELF

The Nascent Women's Movement in Central Asia

Assertions of Self is a fascinating -- and rare -- report on women in the newly independent states of the former USSR. It looks at the problems they face across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), be it in the more European lifestyles of the Baltic States or the essentially feudal ones of Central Asia. The essays address concerns central to women's groups in the CIS such as rights of women workers, ecology and related health issues, status within the family, and violence against women.

Given the absence of a prior tradition of independent academic research, data or experience in gender analysis in this region, this volume represents a particularly useful resource for all those interested in women's movements in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Shirkat Gah/Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 1995. paper; 44 pp. US$12.00

GENDER IN THIRD WORLD POLITICS

Georgina Waylen

This book is a gendered analysis of Third World politics that examines both "high politics" and political activity at the grassroots level, as well as the impact of state policy on different groups of women. Waylen first discusses the major theoretical questions involved in the study of gender in Third World Politics. She then discusses the topic in the context of colonialism, revolution authoritarianism, and democratisation, richly illustrating her discussion with a broad range of examples. The book offers an excellent introduction that combines theoretical perspectives and substantive themes in a clear and convincing synthesis. Engaging and original, the book is ideal for use in courses on women and politics, women's studies, and gender and development courses.

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. paper, 163 pp. ISBN 1-55587-633-1 US$18.95

GENDER AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Explorations of South Asian Systems

Alice W. Clark (Ed.)

This volume examines the particularities, traditions, and historical roots of South Asian systems that contribute to the inequitable burdens shouldered by women. It focuses on production and reproduction in regional economies, analyses the complex interrelationships of class, gender and economic forces, and discusses economic and political organising by women in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Oxford University Press, 1995. paper; 375 pp. ISBN 0-19-563-461-6 US$11.95

THE HISTORY OF DOING

The Women's Movement in India

Radha Kumar

This book traces the development of the women's movement in India from the nineteenth century to the present. Kumar portrays the diversity of the movement and raises key questions about present-day feminism in India: its directions; its difference from Western movements; and the relationship of women's organisations to political parties, especially those on the left.

Verso, 1993. paper; 220 pp. ISBN 0-86091-665-0 US$19.95

SUBVERSIVE WOMEN

Women's Movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Saskia Wieringa (Ed.)

This lively anthology of feminist writings analyses women's history as subversion and demonstrates the complexity and diversity of women's movements and organisations in the South. It shows how women empower themselves and confront existing power structures through rebellion, unions, popular theatre, and poetry.

Zed Books, 1996. paper; 256 pp. ISBN 1-85649-318-0 US$22.50

SEE ALSO: Women and Right Wing Movements (Category: Culture).

WHERE WOMEN ARE LEADERS

The SEWA Movement in India

Kalima Rose

This narrative history of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) -- the 40,000 strong union of India's poorest women -- offers inspiration for a new development model relevant to low-income women worldwide. It tracks SEWA's work from its initial organising to its current national and international influence on employment and resource policy.

Zed Books, 1993. paper; 288 pp. ISBN 1-85649-084-X US$19.95

SEE ALSO: Women and Right-Wing Movements (Category: Culture).

WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT

Participation and Decision-Making

Marilee Karl

Women and Empowerment examines women's increasing participation in political, social and economic life. It describes challenges and strategies, and the mobilisation of women in and around the United Nations, with a focus on women's organising at the various UN World Conferences. Includes: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); a list of organisations; bibliography.

Zed Books, 1995. paper; 173 pp. ISBN 1-85649-192-7 US$17.50

WOMEN AND POLITICS IN THE THIRD WORLD

Haleh Afshar (Ed.)

Women and Politics in the Third World presents an innovative feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation, and negotiation used by women in Third World states. Case studies -- of fundamentalism in Iran, media concerns in China, political resistance in Latin America, and women's activism in Palestine -- are used to focus on difference as a theoretical basis for investigating women's political activism. The contributors show that choices made by non-western women regarding motherhood, marriage, religious devotion, and domesticity, often attributed to weakness by Western analyses, are actually used by women to seek resources, welfare, or freedom from oppression for their children.

Routledge, 1996. paper; 210 pp. ISBN 0-415-13861-2 US$17.95

WOMEN AND POLITICS WORLDWIDE

Barbara J. Nelson and Najma Chowdhury (Eds.)

This accessible, well-organised book charts the political history, institutions, and women's movements in 43 countries, and analyses women's political demands and governments' responses to them. Descriptions of the methodologies used and detailed explanations of the patterns emerging from the study enhance the value of this book as a reference resource.

Yale University Press, 1994. paper; 818 pp. ISBN 0-300-05408-4 US$27.50

WOMEN, GENDER AND WORLD POLITICS

Perspectives, Policies, Prospects

Peter R. Beckman & Francine D'Amico (Eds.)

This book presents profiles and personal accounts from national leaders around the world. With essays on the "glass ceiling" at the UN, the role of women in the Green Movement, revolutionary women in Central America and American attitudes about gender and leadership, it is an excellent introductory text for students in women's studies, comparative politics and international relations.

Bergen and Garvey, 1994. paper; 250 pp. ISBN 0-89789-306-9 US$19.95

WOMEN IN WORLD POLITICS

Francine D'Amico & Peter R. Beckman (Eds.)

Including contributions from diplomats, scholars, and political activists, Women in World Politics uses gender analysis as an alternative perspective for understanding world politics. It reviews and critiques Western feminist, Third World feminist, pluralist and critical perspectives on world politics; examines women's issues and the UN; the cold war; international violence; and discusses avenues for creating change.

Bergen and Garvey, 1995. paper; 230 pp.ISBN 0-89789-411-1 US$19.95

Series: Reflecting on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The three books in this new series describe the efforts of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to support the political empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean, enabling them to participate in decisions that affect not only their own lives but also society at large.

BUILDING DEMOCRACY WITH WOMEN

Ana Maria Brasileiro (Ed.)

The women's movement has been a vital component in the evolution of democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last two decades. Women have demanded the right to participate within existing structures of democracy, and to expand the very concept of democracy so that it embraces women's rights. The articles in Building Democracy with Women offer practical examples of gender-sensitive ways in which women have organised to integrate development and democracy and to elaborate the concepts of rights and citizenship. These projects range from seed money to capacity-building, from work with parliamentarians and gender-sensitisation of judges and lawyers to empowering women to participate in the national planning process.

UNIFEM, 1996. paper; 81 pp. ISBN 0-912917-39-3 US$7.95

GENDER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Ana Maria Brasileiro (Ed.)

The concept of sustainable development owes its power to the energetic and effective alliance between women's organisations and environmental activists. Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, women have organised to integrate the concept of gender-sensitive sustainable development into all development planning and projects. The practical examples described in this book range from seed money to capacity-building, from single conferences to multi-project programmes.

UNIFEM, 1997. paper; 79 pages. US$7.95

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IN A CHANGING WORLD

Ana Maria Brasileiro (Ed.)

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the recognition of the differential nature, power, and potential of women's leadership has emerged simultaneously with the increasing inability of governments to meet the basic needs of their citizens and the growing demands of women to participate in the public arena.

The articles in this book offer practical examples of how women are organising to meet this challenge: working to help new grassroots leaders empower themselves in their communities; to develop new leadership skills through increased opportunities in business and other sectors; and to restructure and refinance their own organisations to be sustainable without sacrificing the non-hierarchical principles derived from feminism.

UNIFEM, 1996. paper; 76 pp.ISBN 0-912917-40-7 US$7.95

POPULATION AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

PROMOTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

A Global Mandate

Reed Boland and Anika Rahman

In analysing the international advances in promoting reproductive rights, this report focuses on recognition of these rights at the major UN conferences of the 1990s: declaration of women's rights as human rights; endorsement of the right to reproductive decision-making; affirmation of the right of access to reproductive health services; and condemnation of violence against women. Promoting Reproductive Rights also emphasises that the move has to be made from rhetoric to real improvements, and that resources must be allocated for implementation.

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1997. paper; 48 pages. US$10.00

POPULATION POLICIES RECONSIDERED

Health, Empowerment, and Rights

Gita Sen, Adrienne Germain and Lincoln C. Chen (Eds.)

This volume brings together a rare combination of scholars, policy-makers and women's health advocates. Its underlying premise is that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people, rather than simply attempting to limit the ultimate size of the world's population. It aims to contribute to a new consensus on population policy directions for the 21st century, centred on health, women's empowerment, and human rights.

Harvard University Press, 1994. paper; 280 pp. ISBN 0-674-69003-6 US$16.95

POWER AND DECISION

The Control of Reproduction

Gita Sen and Rachel C. Snow (Eds.)

Power and Decision argues that reproductive technologies are chosen, designed, and promoted by various political communities to reflect the values of those communities and are imbued with gender, race, and class considerations. The book exposes the implications of current legislative, economic, political, and scientific trends for gender relations and women's health and well-being. Case studies.

Harvard University Press, 1994. paper; 348 pp. ISBN 0-674-69533-X US$16.95

SEE ALSO: The Right to Know (Category: Women's Human Rights).

POWER, REPRODUCTION AND GENDER

The Intergenerational Transfer of Knowledge

Wendy Harcourt (Ed.)

This comparative study of gender, power, and reproduction around the world explores issues that are fundamental to the ongoing debate on population and gender: health, empowerment, sexuality, and reproductive rights. With case studies from Brazil, Ghana, Italy, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Tanzania, it investigates when and why people change their reproductive and sexual behaviour, and how knowledge is transferred within and across generations. The contributors confront the ethical dilemma for feminist researchers and activists: can and should we change cultural knowledge, codes, and practice in this field?

Highlighting issues and concerns which are too often ignored, Power, Reproduction and Gender is an important new resource for all those interested in women's studies, population and development studies, health, and the sociology of knowledge.

Zed Books, April 1997. paper; 240 pp. ISBN 1-85649-426-8 US$22.50

THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE

A Study in International Law

Corinne A.A. Packer

This book presents the underlying rationale for the right to reproductive choice, defines this right in international law, and examines the complex web of rights which give it content. It discusses contemporary cultural, religious, and demographic issues that pose challenges to the application of the right to reproductive choice, such as national population policies, abortion, and medically assisted reproduction. Listings of countries party to universal and regional human rights instruments, and excerpts from these and other texts, make this comprehensive study an excellent reference for advocates of reproductive rights.

Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi University, 1996. paper; 213 pp. ISBN 951-650-546-5 US$32.00

WOMEN, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DO IT HERSELF

Women and Technical Innovation

Helen Appleton (Ed.)

Do it Herself investigates the contributions of women to technical innovation at the grassroots level, using 22 case studies from 16 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Despite diverse social, economic and political environments, certain central themes are identified in women's use, production, and adaptation of technology.

IT Publications, 1995. paper; 310 pp. ISBN 1-85339-287-1 US$28.50

MISSING LINKS

Gender Equity in Science and Technology for Development

UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development

This unique collection of essays on gender, science, and technology explores specific issues, illustrates the differential gender impact of science and technology developments, and discusses strategies to promote greater gender equity, especially in decision-making. The book aims to stimulate action and research, and to persuade governments, the scientific community, donors, and NGOs about the link between gender, science, and sustainable human development.

IDRC/UNIFEM/IT Publications, 1995. paper; 200 pp. ISBN 0-912917-37-7 US$24.95

WOMEN, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOLARSHIP (WITS)

H. Jeanie Taylor, Cheris Kramarae and Maureen Ebben (Eds.)

The essays, bibliographies, and digests in this volume highlight the major, often unforeseen, implications of new information technologies for the politics and reconstitution of gender, race, and class in universities. Key issues include the involvement of women in creating a "cyberspace of our own," and for electronic scholarship, and sharing and ownership of electronic resources. This book is an important reference for all those concerned about the politics of information technologies processes at major universities, which has increasingly broader significance with the spread of such technologies worldwide. Annotated bibliography.

Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship (WITS) Colloquium, 1993. paper; 127 pp. ISBN 1-882875-00-1 US$10.00

WOMEN'S ROLES IN TECHNICAL INNOVATION

UNIFEM

This book describes the wealth of women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions across a whole range of food cycle activities. It highlights the value of consulting local women and adding to their experience, and urges technological institutions to support women's efforts to find solutions to technical problems. Case studies; list of contacts; bibliography.

IT Publications/UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 86 pp. ISBN 1-85339-307-X US$15.50

SEXUALITY

LEARNING ABOUT SEXUALITY

A Practical Beginning

Sondra Zeidenstein and Kirsten Moore (Eds.)

Family planning and reproductive health programs have rarely considered sexuality, gender roles, and power when designing and providing services. These issues are perceived as too private, impossible to change, or sensitive, within the context of clinically oriented service-delivery programs. Despite research on factors affecting contraceptive use, sexually transmitted disease, and unwanted pregnancy, there is still a gap in understanding how these outcomes are affected by the dynamics of sexuality and gender.

Learning About Sexuality is a unique reference tool to address this gap. Chapters describe approaches to understanding the experience of sexuality, presenting both the voices of women in a cultural context and of academics on researching sexuality; bringing sexuality into family planning services, reproductive health interventions, and biomedical research; and challenging entrenched attitudes and behaviour related to sexuality. Throughout, it brings experience from a wide variety of cultures and outlines areas of human interest that, so far, have not been addressed in a programmatic way.

The Population Council/The International Women's Health Coalition, 1996. paper; 404 pp. ISBN 0-878-34085-8 US$20.00

SMALL BUSINESS AND TRAINING

A QUESTION OF ACCESS

Training Workshops on Planning Credit Projects that take Women into Account

This participatory training manual is designed to raise awareness about gender issues in credit projects. Structured for a 5-7 day workshop, the manual follows the components of the project cycle: Project Identification, Formulation, Implementation, Monitoring, and Transition. Includes: Case studies from Asia, Latin America, and Africa; handouts.

UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 180 pp. ISBN 0-912917-36-9 US$15.95

CHANGING WOMEN'S LIVES AND WORK

An Analysis of the Impact of Eight Microenterprise Projects

Lucy Creevey

This book analyses eight microenterprise projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa by organisations specialising in technology-driven solutions and community-development approaches. Using a single analytical framework, each project is described in detail. Methodology and statistical results are provided in an Appendix.

IT Publications, 1995. paper; 300 pp. ISBN 1-85339-319-3 US$28.50

DOING A FEASIBILITY STUDY

Training Activities for Starting or Reviewing a Small Business

Suzanne Kindervatter (Ed.)

This training manual, for women who want to start or expand a business, explores a range of enterprise options and assists in developing a business plan and budget. Written at a very basic level, it explains how to research the viability of an enterprise, investigate market demands, and make cost and income projections.

OEF International, 1987. paper; 170 pp. ISBN 0-912917-07-5 US$17.00

Sorry, Spanish and French versions are now out of print!

EXPORT MARKETING FOR A SMALL HANDICRAFT BUSINESS

Edward Millard

This manual, written for the small-scale handicraft producer, is based on Oxfam Trading's 25 years of importing crafts from Third World countries. It discusses: reaching and maintaining contact with customers; designing and producing for overseas markets; packaging; quality control; and the formalities and documentation of exporting.

IT Publications/Oxfam, 1992. paper; 184 pp. ISBN 1-85339-106-9 US$18.95

FAIDIKA!

Business Training for Women's Groups: The Tototo Way

Kevin Kane

Faidika, a Swahili word meaning "profit," is a business skills training manual based on practical experience in Kenya. Embodying a participatory and nonformal education approach, the 14 easy-to-follow lessons deal with basic business topics ranging from start up to profit and loss, cash control, bookkeeping and financial statements, to feasibility analysis, business planning, and marketing.

World Education, 1993. paper; 66 pp. ISBN 0-914262-13 US$20.00

GENDER, SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY

I.S.A. Baud and G.A. de Bruijne (Eds.)

This book examines the role of small-scale industrial units in the development process, the changing division of labour along gender lines in such units, and the way women combine employment with reproductive and community roles. Lessons are drawn from programmes directed towards women in small-scale industries or the informal sector.

IT Publications, 1993. paper; 214 pp. ISBN 1-85339-156-5 US$28.50

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

A Training Manual for Businesswomen

Uschi Kraus-Harper and Malcolm Harper

Getting Down to Business is a valuable resource for designing, managing or conducting business training for women. It provides detailed guidelines for a 29-session course that can be used on its own or as a component in other programmes. It includes material on the special training needs of business women, recruitment, and evaluation of training.

IT Publications, 1992. paper; 166 pp. ISBN 1-85339-113-1 US$22.95

MARKETING STRATEGY

Training Activities for Entrepreneurs

Suzanne Kindervatter with Maggie Range

This handbook utilizes an innovative board game -- "Marketing Mix" -- which is especially effective with groups of varying literacy skills. Designed for women with existing businesses, the game introduces key aspects of marketing: product, distribution, promotion and price. After playing, participants identify concrete ways to increase sales and improve practices.

OEF International, 1986. paper; 96 pp. includes game board. ISBN 0-912917-08-3 US$15.50

Also available in Spanish and French.

WOMEN AND TRADE

GLOBAL TRADING PRACTICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN SOUTH ASIA

A Gender Perspective

Aasha Kapur Mehta and Camilla Otto

The first in a series of regional publications on the impact of trade liberalisation on women from UNIFEM, this publication includes recommend-ations from a regional seminar on women and trade (New Delhi, 1995). The seminar -- organised in response to growing concerns from the women's movement in South Asia about the impact of trade liberalisation on women in the region -- involved 40 participants from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, and Bhutan. The book also includes background papers on gender biases in macroeconomics and trade liberalisation; case studies that explore the impact of trade liberalisation on specific industrial sectors; and country papers that present an overview of national economic trends and their impact on women.

UNIFEM/The Swedish International Development Authority, 1996. paper; 283 pp. ISBN 0-912917-47-4 US$9.95

THE TRADE IN DOMESTIC WORKERS

Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of International Migration

Noeleen Heyzer, Geertje Lycklama a Nijeholt and Nedra Weerakoon (Eds.)

This collection of thematic papers discusses ways in which to craft responsive policies and programmes that affect the international migration and overseas employment of women domestic workers. It analyses national and international structural forces that affect women migrant workers -- within the family, household, and wider kinship and community networks.

Zed Books, 1995. paper; 247 pp. ISBN 1-85649-286-9 US$25.00

THE TRADE TRAP

Poverty and the Global Commodities Market

Belinda Coote

This best-selling book explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities are caught in a trap: the more they produce, the lower the price falls on the international market. Attempts to add value to their commodities by processing them are discouraged by the tariff barriers imposed by rich industrialised nations. Worse, they have to compete with subsidised exports from rich surplus-producing countries.

This new edition contains material on the outcome of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the creation of the new World Trade Organisation. It examines the impact of rapid economic liberalisation on the livelihoods and natural environments of poor communities, and recommends ways in which trade could be regulated to protect their rights. Although not focused specifically on women, the focus on the global commodities market clearly has implications for women in their role as producers and consumers in this sector.

Oxfam Publications, (Second Edition) 1996. paper; 243 pp.ISBN 0-85598-351-5 US$18.50

WOMEN AND THE NEW TRADE AGENDA

Susan Joekes and Ann Weston

Women and the New Trade Agenda reviews recent trends and issues in world trade, analyses lessons learned from export-oriented strategies in different countries and regions, and considers the potential gains and limitations for women of trade-related employment. It includes recommendations for advocacy work to ensure that women's economic prospects are protected and enhanced by regional and global trade agreements.

UNIFEM, 1995. paper; 100 pp. ISBN 0-912917-34-2 US$7.95

TRAINING

ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW

A Gender Analysis Training Manual for Grassroots Workers

A. Rani Parker

This training manual highlights the effects of gender in formulating and implementing development programmes, focusing on grassroots workers and their communities. It offers a guide for conducting a four-day workshop with grassroots people, and describes a community-based technique for the analysis of gender differences. Includes: pre-workshop and evaluation questionnaires; case studies; participant handouts; follow-up activities; glossary; additional reading.

UNIFEM, 1993. paper; 106 pp. ISBN 0-912917-41-5 US$15.95

DOING THE GENDER BOOGIE

Power, Participation and Economic Justice

Debbie Culbertson (Ed.)

Doing the Gender Boogie is a development education toolkit with a range of activities for involving groups in exploring gender and global justice. It contains step-by-step instructions for organising workshops and all of the supporting materials needed to put each session together. Although developed within a Canadian context, workshop materials have a global focus, providing examples from both the South and the North.

Ten Days for Global Justice, 1995. paper; 64 pp. US$12.95

GENDER RELATIONS ANALYSIS

A Guide for Trainers

A. Rani Parker, Itziar Lozano and Lyn A. Messner

This gender training guide links current theory with field-relevant practice. It provides a framework for gender relations analysis with respect to programmes and organisational structure and discusses interventions at personal, institutional, and methodological levels. It summarises key concepts in gender analysis, presents a 5-day training curriculum for technical and management practitioners, with additional perpectives for training of trainers. Gender Relations Analysis will enable trainers with some experience in participatory methods to develop and conduct their own gender relations training.

Save the Children, 1995. paper; 142 pp. ISBN 1-888393-00-9 US$19.95

IMAGINATIVE EVENTS FOR TRAINERS

A Trainer's Sourcebook of Games, Simulations, and Role-Play Exercises

Ken Jones

Imaginative Events for Training offers games, simulations, role-play exercises and puzzles that can be used to make development training activities more effective and workshop participants more creative, better team players and communicators, and skilled negotiators. It features a step-by-step guide to planning, running, debriefing and evaluating each of the 48 events included in this sourcebook. Special handouts; questionnaires; self-assessment sheets.

McGraw Hill, 1993. paper; 310 pp. ISBN 0-07-033019-0 US$24.95<p/

LISTENING FOR A CHANGE

Oral Testimony and Community Development

Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson

Listening for a Change helps community workers improve their listening and learning skills so that they make the knowledge, experience, culture and priorities of local people central to their work. It demonstrates how to assemble oral testimonies and describes practical measures for collecting, interpreting, and applying oral testimony to community development issues. It also explores the limits, ambiguities and ethics of using oral testimonies. Case studies; bibliography.

New Society Publishers, 1995. paper; 172 pp. ISBN 0-86571-304-9 US$14.95

POWER, PROCESS AND PARTICIPATION

Tools for Change

Rachel Slocum, Lori Wichhart, Dianne Rocheleau and Barbara Thomas-Slayter (Eds.)

This book offers innovative collaborative tools that are sensitive to cultural and social differences, and have been designed to increase the capacities of local communities, NGOs, and public sector agencies. The book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that address the practical needs and strategic interests of the disadvantaged and disempowered, paying particular attention to gender issues. It also examines how differences of race, caste, religion, age, and status may lead to the "politics of exclusion."

IT Publications, 1995. paper; 272 pp. ISBN 1-85339-303-7 US$17.50

REDUCING RISK

Participatory Learning Activities for Disaster Mitigation in Southern Africa

Astrid von Kotze with Ailsa Holloway

Based on the experience of practitioners working in Southern Africa, this collection aims to increase understanding about community risk and vulnerability, and to strengthen the training capacities of those involved in community-based disaster management. Each activity has been developed and extensively tested with organisations working in this field, and the approaches and activities are applicable, with adaptation for local differences, across the world. Reducing Risk is primarily a tool for practitioners working with highly vulnerable communities. It is also useful for facilitating learning activities in disaster reduction, both as a reference and as a 'how to' manual. Fully illustrated.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, 1996. paper; 300 pp. ISBN 0-85598-347-7 US$29.95

SEEING AND SHOWING OURSELVES

A Guide For Using Small Format Videotape As A Participatory Tool For Development

Maria Protz

Despite the current enthusiasm for small-format videotape as a medium in developmental efforts, approaches and methodo-logies for its use in development processes are generally unavailable. Seeing and Showing Ourselves addresses this gap by offering practical "how to" suggestions for using video as a medium for non-formal, participatory adult education. It suggests an approach concentrating on communication for rural development, particularly that involving women. The strength of the material is its focus on the participatory process and the suitability, effectiveness and role of videotape within this process, rather than on technical production information.

Given the relatively extensive use of the medium in India, this guidebook is a useful starting point for the consideration of small format videotape as a developmental tool. Comprehensive, simply written, and well-illustrated, the material is particularly appropriate for grassroots activists and trainers working at the village level. List of contact groups using media for development; readings on development communication.

CENDIT, 1990. paper; 96 pp. US$12.00

TEAM GAMES FOR TRAINERS

Carolyn Nilson

Team Games for Trainers presents over 100 exercises and activities -- illustrations, stories and activities -- for developing team-centred work processes and environments. These can be usefully adapted not only for team-building within development organisations but also at the grassroots level for community building. Each game is self-contained and clearly explained, and is suitable for use by experienced trainers and novices alike.

McGraw Hill, 1993. paper; 322 pp. ISBN 0-07-046588-6 US$24.95

THE OXFAM GENDER TRAINING MANUAL

Suzanne Williams with Janet Seed and Adelina Mwau

Based on OXFAM's international experience, this manual incorporates over 100 learner-centred gender training activities with participatory methodologies, each accompanied by objectives, methods, facilitator notes and suggested activity adaptations. It includes: key gender and development concepts; gender analysis; gender-sensitive appraisal and planning; gender perspectives on conflict, the environment, economic crisis and culture; gender and communication; and strategies for change. This comprehensive one-of-a-kind manual is an excellent resource for trainers with some experience of facilitating workshops.

OXFAM, 1994. paper; 634 pp. ISBN 0-85598-267-5 US$45.00

THE WINNING TRAINER

Julius E. Eitington

This updated and expanded third edition of The Winning Trainer is the one-stop sourcebook every trainer needs, with participatory training techniques for a variety of development-related training activities. It has more than 100 handouts and activities, with sections on managing diversity in the classroom, cross-gender leadership training, gender differences in communication styles, and cross-cultural training. It describes each technique and its effective usage, presents examples of using participatory training methods, and explains how to design various training activities.

Gulf Publishing (Third Edition), 1996. paper; 625 pp. ISBN 0-884-159-0 US$49.95

WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR PERSONAL, ECONOMIC, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Suzanne Kindervatter

The 40+ participatory learning activities in this handbook for field workers and adult educators use local materials and are adaptable for literate or preliterate groups. The book can be used in non-formal education programmes or to increase women's participation in development programmes especially as they relate to women and their families, work, and rights.

OEF International, 1983. paper; 100 pp. ISBN 0-912917-01-6 US$13.50

Also available in Spanish and French.

SEE ALSO: Two Halves Make a Whole: Balancing Gender Relations in Development (Category: Gender Analysis).

Action Guide for Girls' Education (Category: The Girl Child).

Choose a Future: Issues and Options for Adolescent Girls (Category: The Girl Child).

On Our Feet: Taking Steps to Challenge Women's Oppression (Category: Education).

A Manual for Socio-Economic Gender Analysis (Category: Gender Analysis).

Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Education in Muslim Societies (Category: Women's Human Rights).

See Small Business category for a number of subject-specific training resources.

CEDPA TRAINING MANUAL SERIES

VOLUME 1: TRAINING TRAINERS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Conducting a Workshop on Participatory Training Techniques

Training Trainers for Development presents a six-day curriculum on participatory training techniques. It prepares trainers to use interactive, learner-centred methods that are most effective for adult learners, to conduct needs assessment, and to design, implement, and evaluate participatory, competency-based training. Adult educators, community organisations, groups working with young adults, and organisations that need to strengthen in-house training skills will find this manual useful. Field-testing was conducted at regional workshops in Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, and Ukraine.

The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), 1995. paper; 92 pp. US$15.00

VOLUME 2: PROJECT DESIGN FOR PROGRAM MANAGERS

Conducting a Workshop on Planning Community-based Projects

In a time of scarce and uncertain resources, carefully designed projects are crucial to an organisation's effectiveness. This manual, the second in the CEDPA Training Manual Series, enables trainers to conduct a six-day workshop in all phases of project design: needs assessment, problem identification, development and implementation of solutions, assessment of outcomes, and planning for the future.

Emphasising project design as an ongoing process and a foundation for organisational sustainability, Project Design also provides exercises that will be helpful to managers in improving their skills in planning, implementing, and managing projects. The workshop content is applicable to managers in any sector.

CEDPA, 1994. paper; 140 pages. US$15.00

VOLUME 3: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

The third volume in the CEDPA Training Manual Series, Gender and Development details a five-day workshop to strengthen the capacity of organisations to incorporate gender perspectives in their work. For trainers of programme managers and development workers in the private and public sectors, the workshop improves the knowledge, attitudes, and skills so as to create gender-responsive institutions, policies, programmes and projects.

It examines gender influences in the participants' lives, cultural and societal expectations of men and women, how systems and institutions create and maintain gender roles and relationships, and how these factors affect the development process. Its practical relevance has been demonstrated in rigorous field-testing by development organisations in the Caribbean, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Romania, South Africa, Vietnam and elsewhere.

CEDPA, 1996. paper; 98 pages. US$15.00

WATER AND SANITATION

TOGETHER FOR WATER AND SANITATION

Tools to Apply a Gender Approach

Based on a workshop (Sri Lanka 1993) for middle-level managers in water supply projects in over nine Asian countries, this field guide presents tools for applying a gender approach to overcome problems encountered, such as gender-sensitisation of project teams, identification of women's needs, the use of appropriate technologies, and gender-specific investigation of the impact of different projects. Case studies; checklists; illustrations.

IRC, 1994. paper; 110 pp. US$13.00

WORKING WITH WOMEN AND MEN ON WATER AND SANITATION

A Field Guide from Africa

How can gender be brought into the project cycle in African water and sanitation projects? This field guide summarises the themes of a documentation workshop for middle-level managers working in rural water supply and sanitation projects in nine African countries. It defines key project concepts and describes how to deal with gender at each step of the project cycle. Case studies.

IRC, 1994. paper; 110 pp. US$13.00

SEE ALSO: companion volume on Latin America: Mejor cuando es, de a dos: el genero en los proyectos de agua y saneamiento.

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS

GENDER JUSTICE

Women's Rights are Human Rights

Elizabeth Fisher and Linda Gray MacKay

Gender Justice distills the Beijing Platform into accessible, easy-to-use material designed to educate and inspire action to engage women and men in the global struggle for women's rights and "bring Beijing home." This comprehensive training manual is structured as a six-session two-hour workshop series, addressing key areas based on the Platform's Critical Areas of Concern: gender, human rights and global organising; women's human rights; health, sexuality and reproductive rights; value of work and economic issues; access to education, media and communications; environmental sustainability; and developing local plans for action on women's human rights. Each topic is introduced by flip charts, video clips, role plays and readings, with a background section and resource list for every workshop.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 1997. paper; 331 pages. US$15.00

DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LA MUJER

Perspectivas nacionales e internacionales

Rebecca J. Cook (Ed.)

A translation of the well-respected The Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (with 3 additional chapters by Latin American legal scholars), this volume combines reports and case studies with scholarly assessments of international human rights law and its equitable application to women in different cultures and traditions. It addresses international human rights law; feminist studies; family law; political science; Third World Studies; jurisprudence; and philosophy.

Profamilia, 1997. paper; 602 pages. ISBN 958-96004-0-9. US$15.00

A WORLD OF WIDOWS

Margaret Owen

Neglected by social policy researchers, international human rights activists and the women's movement, the legal, social, cultural, and economic status of the world's widows is an urgent issue given the extent and severity of the discrimination against them. Presenting widowhood as a human rights issue and describing how widows are organising for change all over the world, this fascinating volume is a long-overdue reference on a range of themes: poverty and social security in the context of widowhood; different laws and customs regarding widows' inheritance; the situation of widows who remarry; and issues of sexuality and health. The book examines the needs of specific groups such as refugees, child widows, and older widows, and discusses widowhood in the context of AIDS. Throughout, it shows the prevalence of discrimination against widows in inheritance rights, land ownership, custody of children, security of home and shelter, nutrition and health.

Zed Books, 1996. paper; 214 pp. ISBN 1-85649-420-9 US$19.95

CLAIMING OUR PLACE

Working the Human Rights System to Women's Advantage

Margaret A. Schuler (Ed.)

Claiming Our Place analyses international and regional human rights law, and conceptual and structural challenges in women's global struggle to "claim" their rights and to develop and implement new policies. It examines the conflict involved in acknowledging the universality of women's human rights versus the preservation of national, cultural, and religious particularities.

Women, Law, and Development International, 1993. paper; 163 pp. US$10.00

CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS

A Manual for Women's Human Rights in Muslim Societies

Mahnaz Afkhami and Haleh Vaziri

This manual presents an educational model to promote awareness of the universal human rights concepts inscribed in the major international human rights documents to grassroots women in Muslim societies. Since this transmission process is affected by the prevailing economic, social, cultural, and political conditions, the model can be easily used to convey universal concepts in association with indigenous ideas, traditions, myths, and texts rendered in local idiom.

Claiming Our Rights is a valuable training manual, with chapters containing learning exercises, activities and scenarios structured around questions and verses for discussion from the Qur'an pertaining to women's rights with respect to: the family; autonomy in family-planning decisions; bodily integrity; subsistence; education and learning; employment and fair compensation; privacy, religious beliefs and free expression; conflict; and political participation.

Sisterhood is Global, 1996. paper; 154 pp. US$12.00

DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY

The Global Campaign and Tribunal for Women's Human Rights

Charlotte Bunch and Niamh Reilly Demanding Accountability presents a comprehensive history and analysis of women's organising around the UN World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993), with especially detailed insights into the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights. Includes sections of the Vienna Declaration pertaining to women; a list of UN Human Rights divisions; the petition to promote and protect women's human rights; and a reading/contact list.

UNIFEM/Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994. paper; 165 pp. ISBN 0-912917-29-6 US$15.00

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

FAITH AND FREEDOM

Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World

Mahnaz Afkhami (Ed.)

Faith and Freedom is the first detailed study of Muslim women's rights as human rights, examining domestic and political violence against women resulting from cultural segregation, conflicting legal codes, and the monopoly on the interpretation of Islamic texts by a select group of male theologians. It includes recommendations on empowering Muslim women to participate in general socialisation and in public policy.

Syracuse University Press, 1995. paper; 244 pp. ISBN 0-8156-2668-1 US$17.95

SEE ALSO: Muslim Women's Choices.

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

A Call for Global Action

Nahid Toubia

Female Genital Mutilation provides a compelling overview of the global prevalence of clitoridectomy and infibulation. It lays out the medical facts about, and consequences of, female genital mutilation (FGM). The book discusses the cultural significance of this practice in Africa, and suggests legal, religious, social, and political steps to eradicate it. Personal narratives; photographs and illustrations; statistics.

Rainbo (Second Edition), 1995. paper; 48 pp. US$9.95

Also available in French.

FROM BASIC NEEDS TO BASIC RIGHTS

Women's Claim to Human Rights

Margaret A. Schuler (Ed.)

The essays and case studies in this book focus on the struggle to create an effective and responsive system for enforcing women's human rights. Topics include: gender and hierarchy in human rights; social, economic, and reproductive rights; religious, cultural and ethnic identity challenges to the exercise of women's human rights; and strategic dimensions of the women's human rights movement.

Women, Law and Development International, 1995. paper; 597 pp. US$21.00

GENDER VIOLENCE AND WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA

This book presents ideas and strategies from some of Africa's foremost human rights activists. It discusses issues such as the meaning of "universal" human rights for African women in a world dominated by the West, women's sexual and reproductive rights within Islamic culture, and grassroots strategies to tackle violence against women.

Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994. paper; 42 pp. US$7.00

HUMAN RIGHTS PACKAGE

Rebecca Cook

This package of 4 articles from leading law and human rights journals provides a unique analysis and overview of the application of international human rights law to women's human rights. The first article reports on an international consultation which brought legal theory and practice to bear on the relationship between international human rights and women's rights. The second discusses state responsibility for breaches of human rights guaranteed by international conventions. The third article focuses on women's reproductive rights as a human right, including the application of CEDAW to such rights. The last article is a bibliography referencing over 400 select works on the development, interpretation, and implementation of women's human rights.

Limited quantities, available exclusively from Women, Ink!

Package contains reprints of 4 articles, 1992- 1995, approximately 50 pp. each. US$9.95

HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN

National and International Perspectives

Rebecca J. Cook (Ed.)

This volume combines reports and case studies with scholarly assessments of international human rights law and its equitable application to women in different cultures and traditions. It addresses international human rights law; feminist studies; family law; political science; Third World studies; jurisprudence; and philosophy.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. paper; 634 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1538-9 US$22.95

IT'S ABOUT TIME!

Human Rights are Women's Right

Amnesty International

It's About Time launched Amnesty International's 1995 campaign for the protection of women's human rights. It highlights the situation of women in some 75 countries. The book addresses women's rights in the context of war; political, economic, and social risks faced by women; and women's activism in these areas. UN conventions; glossary.

Amnesty International, 1995. paper; 152 pp. ISBN 0-939994-98-4 US$8.95

OURS BY RIGHT

Women's Rights as Human Rights

Joanna Kerr (Ed.)

Here are the voices of leading women lawyers and activists from 35 countries in the campaign for women's rights as human rights, based on a 1992 conference hosted by the North-South Institute. The book presents a number of case studies and discusses barriers to funding women's rights, aid conditionality, government accountability, and strategies for implementation.

Zed Books, 1993. paper; 192 pp. ISBN 1-85649-228-1 US$19.95

STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

A Resource Manual

This comprehensive UN policy document examines the nature, causes and prevention of domestic violence, and details ways in which the problem can be confronted -- by police, prosecutors, health/social service workers, women's groups, and government agencies. Includes a training section and methods for gathering information on domestic violence.

UN Publications, 1993. paper; 122 pp. US$19.95

SEE ALSO: Women's Human Rights Step by Step.

State Responses to Domestic Violence.

TESTIMONIES OF THE GLOBAL TRIBUNAL ON VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS

This book compiles the full transcripts of 33 testimonies by women from 25 countries at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights (Vienna, 1993). They give compelling voice to violations of a wide spectrum of human rights.

Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1994. paper; 79 pp. US$15.00

THE HOSKEN REPORT

Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females

Fran P. Hosken

This is one of the most comprehensive sourcebooks available on female genital mutilation (FGM). It emphasises the special role of health education and health care services in exposing the disastrous consequences of FGM. It critically evaluates organisations and activities that contribute to the perpetuation of FGM, while featuring positive initiatives by women's groups to eradicate it.

Women's International Network News, 1993 (Fourth Edition). paper; 444 pp. ISBN 0-942096-09-6 US$35.00

THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH GLOBAL REPORT ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Human Rights Watch

The Global Report focuses on the role of governments in perpetuating, condoning, and tolerating various kinds of abuse: rape as a tactic of war and political repression; trafficking of women; custodial violence against women; abuses of women workers; domestic violence; sexual abuse of refugee women; and reproductive and sexual violations. Case studies.

Human Rights Watch, 1995. paper; 458 pp. ISBN 0-300-06546-9 US$15.00

THE RIGHT TO KNOW

Human Rights and Access to Education

International Centre Against Censorship

This book articulates a strategy for using international human rights law to provide women with information necessary for maternal and child health. Ten country studies -- Algeria, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, and the US -- analyse cultural and political factors that control information on family planning, abortion, education about AIDS, and other health threats.

Article 19, International Centre Against Censorship, 1995. paper; 400 pp. ISBN 0-8122-1588-5 US$26.95

THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT VIOLENCE

Women's Proposals and Actions

The Right to Live Without Violence reports on the Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights (El Salvador, 1993) which exposed the violence present in women's lives, and examines legal provisions and recourse in dealing with violence in the region. It was produced as an informative and activist tool for those working to research and denounce violence against women in Latin America. It includes conceptual essays and research findings on violence, especially domestic and sexual violence. Appendices include the 1994 Inter-American "Convention of Belem do Para" and the 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women. With photographs, case studies, examples of groups in action and a description of their activities, and statistics, focusing on nine countries in the region, this volume represents a unique and moving resource on the topic of violence against women.

Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, Women's Health Collection, Vol. 1, 1996. periodical; 139 pp. US$25.00

UNSPOKEN RULES

Sexual Orientation and Women's Rights

Rachel Rosenbloom (Ed.)

The 30 country reports in this unique volume document human rights violations based on sexual orientation, touching on a whole host of legal, cultural, social and economic issues. Placing lesbian rights within the framework of the broader struggle for women's human rights, this book demonstrates how women's rights and lesbian rights are linked in substantive ways. Both highlight how human rights distinctions between the private and public, as well as reluctance to address female sexuality, have perpetuated violations of women's rights and kept them invisible. Furthermore, the defense of lesbian rights is integral to the defense of women's right to determine their own sexuality, to work at the jobs they prefer and to live as they choose with women, men, children, or alone. Unspoken Rules is also inspiring in its recounting of lesbian organising that is flourishing in many parts of the world despite many obstacles.

Cassell, 1996. paper; 257 pp. ISBN 0-304-33764-1 US$14.95

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

New Movements and New Theories in India

Gail Omvedt

Omvedt revisits establishment liberal viewpoints, conventional Marxism, and radical feminist theories of patriarchy and violence to describe and explain the nature of violence against women in India. The book also discusses recent theoretical approaches to the role of caste, women's labour, and destruction of the environment by modern capitalist systems.

Kali for Women, 1990. paper; 42 pp. ISBN 81-85107-28-9 US$4.95

WITHOUT RESERVATION

The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women's Human Rights

Niamh Reilly (Ed.)

Without Reservation documents the last in a series of tribunals held at the major UN world conference: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women's Human Rights (September 1995). In these 22 testimonies, women break the silence on abuses they suffer, and move from being victims to survivors. They engage as political actors in changing their own lives and in creating the conditions necessary to end human rights abuses in the lives of millions of women around the world.

This book addresses a range of women's human rights violations in specific categories: conflict situations; family issues; health and bodily integrity; and political persecution. It provides an extensive analysis that expands our understanding of women's human rights by focusing on issues of strategies for accountability. Together with the report from the Vienna Tribunal, this book constitutes an important reference for all those interested in the women's human rights movement.

Center for Women's Global Leadership, 1996. paper; 190 pp. $15.00

WOMEN AND VIOLENCE

Realities and Responses Worldwide

Miranda Davies (Ed.)

This book highlights gender-based violence and efforts to combat it with case studies from over 30 countries. The writings examine the incidence of domestic violence and child sexual abuse, sexual harassment in the workplace, rape and torture in war, genital mutilation, and the effects of male violence on women's reproductive health.

Zed Books, 1994. paper; 264 pp. ISBN 1-85649-146-3 US$22.50

WOMEN'S RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS

International Feminist Perspectives

Andrea Wolper and Julie S. Peters

With contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from 21 countries, this book maps the direction being taken by the women's human rights movement, and the concomitant transformation of prevailing notions of rights. Topics include: the rapes in the former Yugoslavia; domestic violence; trafficking of women; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.

Routledge, 1995. paper; 450 pp. ISBN 0-415-90995-3 US$21.95

SPANISH AND FRENCH RESOURCES

DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LA MUJER

Perspectivas nacionales e internacionales

Rebecca J. Cook (Ed.)

Profamilia, 1997. paper; 602 pages. ISBN 958-96004-0-9. US$15.00

English Edition available! Human Rights of Women

HACIENDO CAMINO AL ANDAR: Guia Metodologica para la Accion Comunitaria (NO ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Marcy Fink (Ed.) This book, conceived as a methodological guide for community action, is based on experiences in Peru, Chile, Honduras, Venezuela, and Costa Rica, among other counbies. It emphasises the need to combine popular education with action and provides the steps needed to achieve successful community action.

Includes participatory activities and case studies which illustrate each of the steps.

OEF Internacional, 1991. paper; 244 pp. ISBN 0-912917-23-7 US$19.50

MEJOR CUANDO ES, DE A DOS: El genero en los proyectos de agua y saneamiento (NO ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

This guide was developed for the implementation of water and sanitation projects in Latin America, with an emphasis on integrating women. A useful tool for all those involved in similar work, Mejor cuando es, de a dos offers a gender perspective which looks at the changes necessary in social relations to guarantee women's participation.

IRC, 1993. paper; 72 pp. US$13.00

Part of IRC's Water and Sanitation Series

NUESTROS PROYECTOS: Como financiarlos (NO ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Maria Negroni y Joanne Sandler

A new edition, corrected and enlarged of Mi Proyecto: Como finaciarlo, Nuestros Proyectos offers guidelines, ideas and worksheets for women's groups to develop a more organised and strategic approach to fund-raising. It includes a directory of funders, especially useful for those groups working around the theme of violence against women.

CTIM, 1993. paper 128 pp. US$19.95

NAVAGAMA: Actividades de entrenamiento para la integracion de grupos, programas de salud y generacion de ingresos (SPANISH)

NAVAGAMA: Formation Visant a Renforcer les Projets Collectifs, la Sante et les Activites Remuneratrices (FRENCH)

Dian Seslar Svendsen y Sujatha Wijetilleke

This resource book and participatory training manual helps experienced trainers, particularly those who work with grassroots groups, to design training strategies which relate health to improved economic situation. Some of the topics covered in the manual are: group development, mobilising of local leaders, and administering small scale projects.

OEF Internacional, 1983. paper; 176 pp.ISBN 0-912917-04-0 (Spanish); ISBN 0-912917-06-7 (French) US$15.00

Sorry, NAVAMAGA (English edition) is now out of print!

LA VIOLENCIA CONTRA LA MUJER: Un obstaculo para el desarrollo (SPANISH)

LA VIOLENCE CONTRE LES FEMMES: Un obstacle au Developpement (FRENCH)

Roxanna Carillo

This is an invaluable resource on violence against women which presents alarming statistics on gender violence around the world and analyses its economic and human costs. The booklet includes directories, a very complete section of resources, and a fact sheet on gender violence - a compilation of five pages of global statistics.

UNIFEM, 1992. paper; 38 pp. US$7.95

Sorry, Battered Dreams (English edition) is now out of print!

GUIA SOBRE LAS POLITICAS Y LOS PROGRAMAS SOBRE LA MUJER EN LOS ORGANISMOS ESPECIALIZADOS Y LOS DEPARTEMENTOS DE LAS N.U. (NO FRENCH)

This handbook provides a brief history of each UN agency, its main programme policies, objectives, and evaluation process. It is a valuable aid in the efforts to mainstream women's programmes within the UN system, to track cross-agency coordination, and to enable those working on international women's issues to use the UN more effectively.

Quaker United Nations Office, 1994. paper; 45 pp.US$6.00

English Edition available! Guide to Women-Specific Policies

SITUACION DE LA MUJER EN EL MUNDO: Tendencias y Estatisticas 1970-1995 (SPANISH)

LES FEMMES DANS LE MONDE: 1970-1995 (FRENCH)

This volume presents comprehensive data and analysis on women with respect to economic life, population and health, family life, education, public life, human settlements, media, and the effects of war. A pioneering depiction of women's conditions and contributions across the world, The World's Women is an essential resource for all those interested in the role and situation of women.

UN Publications (Second Edition), 1995.paper; 188 pp. ISBN 92-1-361172-2 (Spanish); ISBN 92-1-261153-2 (French); US$15.95

English Edition available! World's Women

SORRY, OUT OF PRINT!

COMO HACER UN ESTUDIO DE FACTIBILIDAD: Entrenamiento para iniciar o reexaminar una pequena empresa

(SPANISH)

REALISATION D'UNE ETUDE DE FAISABILITE: Activites de Formation pour Creer ou Faire le Bilan d'une Petite Entreprise (FRENCH)

OEF International, 1987. paper; 170 pp. ISBN 0-912917-15-6 (Spanish); ISBN 0-912917-16-4; (French); US$17.00

English Edition available! Doing a Feasibility Study

ESTRATEGIA DE MERCADEO: Entrenamiento para empresarias (SPANISH)

STRATEGIE DE MARKETING: Activites de Formation pour Entrepreneurs (FRENCH)

This handbook utilizes an innovative board game--"Marketing Mix"--which is especially effective with groups of varying literacy skills. Designed for women with existing businesses, the game introduces key aspects of marketing: product, distribution, promotion and price. After playing, participants identify concrete ways to increase sales and improve practices.

OEF International, 1986. paper; 96 pp. includes game board. ISBN 0-91297-13-X (Spanish); ISBN 0-912917-14-8 (French); US$15.50

English Edition available! Marketing Strategy

CONVENCION SOBRE LA ELIMINACION DE TODAS LAS FORMAS DE DISCRIMINACION CONTRA LA MUJER (SPANISH)

CONVENTION SUR L'ELIMINATION DE TOUTES LES FORMES DE DISCRIMINATION A L'EGARD DES FEMMES (FRENCH)

UNIFEM/UNICEF, 1995. paper; 45 pp. US$5.95

English Edition available! Advocacy Kit on CEDAW

EL FIN DE LA DEUDA: Directrices para proyectos de credito (SPANISH)

LA FIN DE LA DETTE: Guide Pratique Pour Les Projets de Credit (FRENCH)

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 Fued 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. US$15.95

English Edition available! An End to Debt

LAS MUJERES TRABAJAN UNIDAS para el desarrollo personal, economico y de la comunidad (SPANISH)

FEMMES TRAVAILLONS ENSEMBLE pour le Developpement Personnel, Economique et Communautaire (FRENCH)

The 40+ participatory learning activities in this handbook for field workers and adult educators use local materials and are adaptable for literate or preliterate groups. The book can be used in non-formal education programmes or to increase womenÕs participation in development programmes especially as they relate to women and their families, work, and rights.

OEF International, 1983. paper; 100 pp. ISBN 0-912917-03-2 (Spanish); ISBN 0-912917-05-9 (French); US$13.50

English Edition available! Women Working Together

MUJER: La consigna es actuar (SPANISH)

LE MOT D'ORDRE DES FEMMES: L'action (FRENCH)

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

English Edition available! Woman: The Password is Action

MUJER RURAL EN ACCION (SPANISH)

SCENES DE LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE DES FEMMES DES ZONES RURALES (FRENCH)

Feminist signs and symbols used by womenÕs 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

English Edition available! Rural Women in Action

SIMBOLOS Y LOGOTIPOS FEMINISTAS (SPANISH)

EMBLEMES FEMINISTES (FRENCH)

Feminist signs and symbols used by womenÕs 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

English Edition available! Feminist Logos and Symbols

MUTILATION GENITALE FEMININE: Appel a la mobilisation mondiale (NO SPANISH)

Rainbo (Second Edition), 1995. paper; 48 pp. US$9.95

English Edition available! Female Genital Mutilation

SOUTHERN PARTNERS PROJECT

In addition to serving as an important distribution vehicle for women's presses and women's information-producing organizations in the South, Women, Ink. also supports women's publishers from the South through other services. For example, Women, Ink. organized a hugely successful "women's bookstore" at the NGO Forum '95 on Women in Beijing, which displayed and sold women's publications from over 100 organizations worldwide.

The key vehicle to strengthen the information-producing and dissemination capacities of women's organisations and presses in the South has been the development of its Southern Partners Project. The very name of the project signals its cooperative nature: a joint effort by Women, Ink. with partners in different regions to support women's publishing in the South through a programme of South-South and North-South networking, communication and training.

The Southern Partners Project has made an important contribution to the understanding of factors influencing women's publishing in countries of the South through a series of papers written by the regional partners documenting and analysing the state of women's publishing in Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, South Africa, Southern Africa, Morocco, South Asia and the Pacific. ts first regional initiative was held in Africa, at the region's most high-profile publishing and literary event, the 1996 Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF'96, Harare). (More information about ZIBF 1997.) Funding was raised to bring together key women in publishing from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Egypt and Zimbabwe. Women, Ink., together with Kali for Women (India), coordinated a 1 1/2 day training workshop on marketing and distributing of publications, followed by a panel discussion on African women's publishing. A planning meeting was held which explored other possible activities including a listing of material produced by women's groups and women's publishing houses in Africa in the last ten years in English, French and Arabic, and an anthology of short stories by African women

THE FOLLOWING TITLES ARE NOW OUT OF PRINT

FOCUSING ON WOMEN

Unifem's Experience in Mainstreaming Women

Mary B. Anderson

This paper discusses the broader experience of individuals, institutions and governments involved in mainstreaming women in development, with a specific focus on the approach of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). UNIFEM's experimental approaches to mainstreaming are examined to address controversial questions and to suggest strategies.

UNIFEM, 1993. paper; 28 pp. ISBN 0-912917-42-3 US$7.95

COMO HACER UN ESTUDIO DE FACTIBILIDAD

REALISATION D'UNE EDTUDE DE FAISABILITIE

(Spanish, French translations of "DOING A FEASIBILITY STUDY"

Suzanne Kindervatter (Ed.)

OEF International, 1987. paper; 170 pp. ISBN 0-912917-07-5 US$17.00

English language edition still available!

NAVAGAMA

Training Activities

Dian Seslar Svendsen y Sujatha Wijetilleke

OEF Internacional, 1983. paper; 176 pp. US$15.00

Spanish and French language editions still available!

BATTERED DREAMS

Roxanna Carillo

UNIFEM, 1992. paper; 38 pp. US$7.95

Spanish and French language editions still available!

REFERENCE

ENGENDERING STATISTICS

A Tool for Change

Birgitta Hedman, Francesca Perucci and Pehr Sundström

Engendering Statistics is a welcome addition to the effort to have statistics reflect the realities of women's and men's contributions to society and their different access to and needs for resources. It presents the fundamentals of the new field of Gender Statistics; reviews gender issues, especially those pertaining to development and policies; discusses relevant statistics and how to identify and work with gender statistics; reviews data availability and quality; and discusses its analysis and presentation. Including a 5-day training workshop on the production and dissemination of gender statistics, this book will be invaluable to those in national statistical offices and departments, to scholars interested in correcting gender bias in statistics, and to trainers as a resource manual.

Statistics Sweden, 1996. paper; 144 pages. ISBN 91-618-0859-8. US$33.00

ADVANCING WOMEN'S STATUS

Women and Men Together? Critical Reviews and a Selected Annotated Bibliography

Advancing Women's Status examines the influence of social gender roles and inequalities on women's status, education and training, economic participation, and sexual and reproductive health in countries of the Global South. Each chapter presents a critical review, followed by an annotated bibliography of current key references with abstracts.

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), 1995. paper; 200 pp. US$19.95

GUIDE TO WOMEN-SPECIFIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES WITHIN UN DEPARTMENTS AND SPECIALIZED AGENCIES

Berit Collett (Ed.)

Quaker United Nations Office, 1994. paper; 45 pp. US$6.00

Also available in Spanish.

SEE ALSO: Category: Beijing '95 Resources.

An Unfinished Story: Gender Patterns in Media Employment.

Advocacy Kit on the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1995

United Nations Development Programme

For the first and only time so far, the sixth edition (1995) of the Human Development Report focused on gender inequality and the formulation of an "engendered" development paradigm. This report still represents the most up-to-date compilation of gender-differentiated human development indices. It highlights the wide and persistent gap between women's capabilities and opportunities; introduces measures for ranking countries by their performance in gender equality; analyses the undervaluation of women's work in 31 countries; and offers a five-point strategy for equalising gender opportunities. Tables; figures.

Oxford University Press, 1995. paper; 230 pp. ISBN 0-19-510023-9 US$18.95

THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN 1997

Carol Bellamy (Ed.)

The State of the World's Children report from UNICEF has become the best-known and most widely used of all UN publications. The 1997 report focuses on the widespread problem of the hundreds of millions of child workers, with most of the work being palpably destructive to their schooling, recreation and rest. It explores some of the implications of a groundbreaking treaty drawn up at the international Convention on the Right of the Child -- now on the verge of becoming the first universal law -- which posits that no child should labour in hazardous and exploitative conditions. This report provides insight into the range of ideas existing on how to break the cycle of child labour and poverty, including information on and analysis of the state of the girl child. Illustrations; statistical tables.

Oxford University Press, April 1997. paper; 110 pp. ISBN 0-19-262-8712 US$12.95

THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN, 1948-1996

This new edition has been updated to include the outcome of the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women, including the Platform for Action. With more than 130 documents on the UN's efforts to promote gender equality, the book chronicles the UN's evolution from an early focus on political and family life to more urgent issues such as poverty, violence, education, employment, and health care. It is an excellent primary reference tool for scholars, policy makers, librarians, and journalists. Statistics; resolutions; conventions.

United Nations Publications (Third Edition), 1996. paper; 845 pp. ISBN 92-1-10060-1 US$49.95

THE WORLD'S WOMEN

Trends and Statistics

UN Publications (Second Edition), 1995. paper; 188 pp. ISBN 92-1-161372-8 US$15.95

Also available in Spanish and French.

WISTAT: WOMEN'S INDICATORS AND STATISTICS DATABASE

United Nations

This edition of the WISTAT database presents data on women up to mid-1994, with some projections up to 2025. Over 1,500 statistical series cover economic and social indicators in 200 countries. The Wistat CD is self-installing, and lends itself to custom data searches; the data are also in Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1) format. As the most authoritative international source of statistics on women, WISTAT is a must for reference collections.

United Nations Publications, 1995. Version 3, CD-ROM.ISBN 92-1-161375-2 US$149.00

WOMEN: A WORLD SURVEY

Ruth Sivard

Illustrated with colourful maps, graphs, vignettes and tables, Women: A World Survey is an easy-to-consult handbook with up-to-date statistics, concise narrative, and analysis of the situation of women with respect to the following areas: work, education, health, legal rights, and political power. A statistical annex looks at national profiles, historical trends (1950-1995), and gender comparisons (1960 versus 1995) for 139 countries.

World Priorities, 1995. paper; 48 pp. ISBN 0-918281-10-5 US$7.50

WORLD EDUCATION REPORT 1995

UNESCO

This third edition of a biennial series addressing trends and policy issues in education focuses on educational opportunities for women and girls, which in virtually all countries have tended to be more limited than those for males. It analyses female access to formal education in both industrial and developing countries, focusing in particular on male-female disparities and gaps in key indicators: literacy rates; enrollment ratios; years of schooling; school retention; and fields of study. The Report also examines girls' experience of the educational process itself and its effects on adult life chances, and reviews various remedial measures being taken in different countries.

The Appendices include a unique and extensive set of statistics of country-by-country data on key aspects of education in over 180 countries, with summary tables by major world regions. With extensive analysis, colourful charts, vignettes and statistics, this book is an important addition to any reference collection on education.

Oxford University Press/UNESCO Publishing, 1995. paper; 174 pp. ISBN 92-3-103180-5 US$19.95

LINKS RELATED SITES

AVIVA, an International Women's Listings Magazine which provides News and Free listings on Women's Groups/Courses/Events around the world.

Canadian Women's Studies On-LineA great list of feminist on-line magazines and publications from Canadian Women's Studies at the University of Toronto.

Feminist.Com: Don't miss this comprehensive set of links and resources relating on women's issues, activism, women-owned businesses and classifieds.

Press Gang, publishers of feminist and lesbian titles, suggest a number of other interesting sites to visit.

WomanSource : Links to the best women-powered sites on the web and online home of the WomanSource Catalog & Review

Women's Bookshelf: a showcase of women's books and a magazine section. Includes Reading of the week, Book and Film reviews, articles, short stories, poetry, bibliographies...and more. Women's Bookshelf also provides an internet promotion and marketing service for authors and publishers.

Women's Issues Web Sites: A great list of Women's Studies and other resources from Women's Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore Country.

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