Gender
-
Gender in the 21st Century
From the perspective of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the 21st century. Despite some successes women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education...
-
Urban Girls
This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls and young women. It does this by presenting successful projects from around the world which clearly demonstrate what can be done on a broad range of fronts, and answers the two key questi...
-
Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
Jane L. Parpart, Jane L Connelly, Patricia Barriteau
Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
-
Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
-
Development with Women
Development practitioners and development thinkers and academics have tried to make women matter in development. However, women-focused approaches have often addressed women's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live and have been as damaging to women's interests as earlier gender-...
-
Manual de Formacao em Genero da Oxfam
This comprehensive approach to gender training in development encompasses work on gender awareness-raising and gender analysis at the individual, community and global level. An important reference source for development agency trainers and academics. This is a large, comprehensive manual that acknow...
-
Gender and Technology
The delivery of new technologies to communities in developing countries has been hailed as the key to economic and social progress. However, women’s experiences show that this view is an exaggeration, over-simplifying the potential of technology to deliver `development`. Different technologies in va...
-
Women Speak
A record of the setbacks and victories of South African women from early local community-level organisation in 1982 up to the challenges of living in the 1990s and being in government in the new South Africa. This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues o...
-
Women's Information Services and Networks
An accessible and critical guide to the many resource and information centres working around the world to strengthen the position of women in society. It offers a global overview with a focus on the impact of the new information technologies; regional chapters on Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Cen...
-
Gender Works
Based on a participatory process involving many Oxfam GB staff, Gender Works gives a multi-faceted account of the organisation's attempt to intergrate gender issues into its work and culture over the past 15 years. It is an important book for development poliy-makers and practitioners as well as aca...