The collection includes accounts of work with women who have been sexually assaulted and those who have undergone cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage. Buy this book from Blackwell's Order by mail or fax from Oxfam Gender, Religion, and Spirituality Religion and spirituality are central to women's and men's lives across the world, yet mainstream development policy and practice rarely takes account of this. This collection of articles explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief and assess the cost to development of ignoring these links. Writers of many faiths, and none, explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice, and analyse feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use religious doctrine to justify women's oppression. Buy this book from Blackwell's Order by mail or fax from Oxfam Women and Rights 'Women's rights are human rights' was one of the messages to come out of the UN Human Rights Conference in Vienna in 1993.
Articles here look at migration from many different perspectives.
Writers include Uma Kothari and Emma Crewe, Joanna Kerr and Nona Grandea. Buy this book from Blackwell's Order by mail or fax from Oxfam Gender and Poverty in the North International development policy-makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly involved in debates with governments and NGOs in the industrialised countries of the North, focusing on appropriate methods of understanding and tackling Northern poverty. The articles in this collection examine the phenomenon of the globalisation of poverty and unemployment as it relates to gender identity. This collection of articles by development practitioners and theorists explores new ground by considering the implications of male gender identities for the rights of both men and women, and for gender-equitable development. The authors examine the concept of masculinity, drawing on experiences from Trinidad, South Africa, and around the world.