Gender, faith and development
By: edited by Emma Tomalin
Series: Working in gender & development
Publisher: Practical Action Pub.; Oxfam
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781853397264
Subjects: Women in development; Religion; Women and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges of incorporating Muslim women's views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen / Brenda Bartelink and Marjo Buitelaar; title: Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities: learning from attitudes on gender relations and sexual rights within local evangelical churches in Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, and South Africa / Mandy Marshall and Nigel Taylor; title: The Thai bhikkhuni movement and women's empowerment / Emma Tomalin; title: Reflecting on gender equality in Muslim contexts in Oxfam GB / Adrienne Hopkins and Kirit Patel; title: Christianity, development, and women's liberation / Bridget Walker; title: Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting / Catherine S. Dolan; title: No time to worship the serpent deities: women, economic change, and religion in north-western Nepal / Rebecca Saul; title: A double-edged sword: challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria / Fatima L. Adamu; title: Islam and development: opportunities and constraints for Somali women / Sadia Ahmed; title: Abortion law reform in Latin America: lessons for advocacy / Gillian Kane; title: Moving forward / Emma Tomalin.