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Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

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HIV and AIDS

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Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

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A daring proposal: campaigning for an Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights

01/05/2003

5 pages long

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A daring proposal: campaigning for an Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights

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Can women in Latin America and the Caribbean really exercise their sexual and reproductive rights? Are economic globalisation and state policies in our region creating conditions which will help us claim the rights we have gained in international fora, or are we going in the opposite direction? And is it possible to have a society […]

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The women’s movement in the era of globalisation: does it face extinction?

01/05/2003

7 pages long

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The women’s movement in the era of globalisation: does it face extinction?

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This article is based on an inter-generational dialogue between younger and older women regarding the future direction of the women’s movement. Like other social movements, the women’s movement is currently experiencing tensions as feminists of different ages negotiate their place within it. In this article, we will highlight some of the issues raised in this […]

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Introduction

01/05/2003

9 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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If I were Minister of Finance…: gaining understanding of financial crisis through a simulation workshop

01/05/2003

7 pages long

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If I were Minister of Finance…: gaining understanding of financial crisis through a simulation workshop

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Financial crises (also known as debt crises, currency crises or balance of payments crises) have become endemic in the modern world. The countries at greatest risk have been developing countries. This article discusses a workshop, ‘If I were Minister of Finance…’, which we ran at the Association for Women in Development (AWID) conference in Guadalajara […]

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Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

01/05/2003

8 pages long

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Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

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Development organisations can play a significant role in supporting women in the communities where they work to challenge unequal gender relations. The authors of this article argue that the majority of development organisations fail to do so because they pay insufficient attention to the importance of social institutions in perpetuating inequality. Two prominent approaches to […]

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In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from Latin America

01/05/2003

7 pages long

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In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from Latin America

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This article is taken from five presentations given at AWID by members of the Feminist Initiative of Cartagena. Its main goal was to suggest that there is a Southern – more specifically, Latin American – vision of globalisation, and to identify what is needed to develop a new model of development. This article is hosted […]

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Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother

01/05/2003

9 pages long

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Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother

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In this article, a sociologist and a criminologist argue that recent analysis from feminist men’s studies points to ways to challenge the masculine institutions involved in global economic restructuring and the global war on terrorism. The expansion of state control – in the name of security and fighting terrorism – represents a new aspect of […]

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Counting for something! recognising women’s contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems

01/05/2003

9 pages long

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Counting for something! recognising women’s contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems

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As a political economist, the focus of my research and activism has always been how economic data can be used to influence public policy. I am very familiar with the technical, logistical and measurement arguments traditionally raised by statisticians or economists in the debates on the collection, presentation and imputations related to gender disaggregated statistics. […]

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Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice

01/05/2003

10 pages long

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Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice

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In order to challenge unfair international trade rules, it is essential to understand how each of them works. This article presents an overview of the various agreements concerning different kinds of economic activity, which are enforced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It aims to make these agreements comprehensible to non-economists, so that proposals to […]

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