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Giving women the credit

01/11/1997

6 pages long

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The Full Circle Project is a response by a women’s organisation to the dynamics of women’s poverty and economic exclusion in contemporary Britain. The authors emphasise the need for credit provision for women to be seen as only one part of an integrated strategy for poverty reduction. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor […]

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Building community capacity

01/11/1997

3 pages long

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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a powerful and productive approach which enables communities to analyse their situation and mobilise for action. In East Yorkshire, PRA training offered to local people led to the formation of a network of practitioners and community activists. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full […]

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Participation begins at home

01/11/1997

10 pages long

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Participatory appraisal methods have been developed in a Southern context to facilitate the involvement of people in analysing their own situation and seeking solutions to their problems. This article describes a Community Assessment in the UK, in which participatory methods were used effectively to support community residents in putting together a plan for local action. […]

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Power and dignity

01/11/1997

9 pages long

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This article looks at poverty amongst black and white women in Britain, and proposes that Credit Unions (community banks) could lead the way in establishing a feminist anti-poverty strategy offering not only financial but also socio-political and emotional benefits. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents […]

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Gender and Poverty in the North

01/01/1997

1 documents

75 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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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.

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Participatory appraisal in the UK urban health sector

01/02/1996

9 pages long

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Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) emerged in the context of working with rural communities in developing countries. But the principles of participation and of action-oriented research are equally valid for development work in the urban sector, and in industrialised countries. This article describes the use of participatory appraisal techniques in disadvantaged […]

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Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

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Maternal and child health

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Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

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The rise of religious fundamentalism in Britain: the experience of Women Against Fundamentalism

01/02/1995

2 pages long

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The rise of religious fundamentalism in Britain: the experience of Women Against Fundamentalism

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Katz argues that religious fundamentalists aim to control society by confirming male power within the family. ‘Women Against Fundamentalism’ is a global network of feminist political activists who link feminism to anti-racism, and believe that secularism promotes pluralism. WAF opposes multiculturalism because the concept wrongly implies that religious and community leaders represent the views of […]

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Towards international solidarity

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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Vanete Almeida, from Brazil, is one of eight Southern women activists who visited Britain in 1992 to meet with women from a variety of kindred organisations in the UK and Ireland, to share their experiences of work, discuss commonalities and differences in their vision, and find ways of cooperating and supporting each other. The following […]

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Breaking down the barriers

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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China remains a closed society and there is a lack of information in the North about its women. It is easy to see the denial of Chinese women’s rights without also appreciating their achievements. A 1994 summer school at the ‘Great Britain-China Centre’ aimed to forge understanding between Chinese and British women. It looked at […]

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