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Widows without rights: challenging marginalisation and dispossession

01/07/2006

11 pages long

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Widows without rights: challenging marginalisation and dispossession

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This article describes some of the abusive practices to which widows are subject, and discusses some of the possible reasons for these practices. It describes steps being undertaken at the local level in many countries to challenge abuse of widows, and change cultural perceptions of widowhood. The aim is that widowhood may have as little […]

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Introduction

01/07/2006

8 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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Marginalisation by sexuality: report of an IDS workshop

01/07/2006

17 pages long

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Marginalisation by sexuality: report of an IDS workshop

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Development agencies have conventionally viewed sexuality as a health issue. Sex has been regarded as a source of danger, harm and disease. The words ‘love’, ‘desire’ and ‘pleasure’ are absent from the development lexicon. This article draws on discussions at a workshop at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in September 2005, at which activists, […]

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Marginalisation and ideas of community among Latin American migrants to the UK

01/07/2006

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Marginalisation and ideas of community among Latin American migrants to the UK

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The Latin American community in the UK is denied access to services and decent jobs by a combination of restrictive immigration laws, language problems, low wages, prejudice and discrimination, rendering them an impoverished community. This has a disproportionate effect on women, for whom it is a continuous cycle that is difficult to break. This article […]

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As if she is family’: the marginalisation of unpaid household workers in Turkey

01/07/2006

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As if she is family’: the marginalisation of unpaid household workers in Turkey

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In Turkey, Evlatliks are unpaid workers within the home, who are brought into the household as children. The practice is often seen as archaic, yet experience in many different global contexts suggests that similar practices are widespread. Evlatliks are neither officially recognised by policy-makers for the vital work they do, nor recognised as true family […]

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The politics of the marginalised: dalits and women’s activism in India

01/07/2006

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The politics of the marginalised: dalits and women’s activism in India

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The assertion of Dalit interests has posed new challenges for the women’s movement in India, which has been criticised for its lack of engagement with Dalit women and their interests. Some women’s activists have begun to respond to this critique. Yet this article argues that caste identity still determines the place that women activists – […]

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Combating marginalisation of pastoralist women: SOS Sahel’s experience in Ethiopia

01/07/2006

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Combating marginalisation of pastoralist women: SOS Sahel’s experience in Ethiopia

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Increasingly, pastoral communities in Ethiopia are under pressure to change their livelihoods and cultural practices. There are serious implications for sustainable development, livelihoods and social relations, including gender relations. In response to these concerns, SOS Sahel Ethiopia is implementing an action research programme in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia. The main objective is to move […]

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Boundary crossings: power and marginalisation in the formation of Canadian Aboriginal women’s identities

01/07/2006

12 pages long

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Boundary crossings: power and marginalisation in the formation of Canadian Aboriginal women’s identities

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This paper examines state power and cultural marginalisation among Aboriginal women in a relatively remote area of north-western British Columbia, Canada. In this paper, I argue that intersecting state powers explain intra-generational ‘ethnic mobility’, that is, shifts in individual ethnic identity among Aboriginal women in this area. In order to understand these shifting identities I […]

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Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

01/07/2006

13 pages long

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Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Gender’ is a word that has become part of HIV/AIDS-related vocabulary and conceptual understanding. However, gender and development approaches understand it as denoting only two identities: male and female. Sexuality is likewise assumed to be heterosexuality. This thinking has informed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies worldwide, and the result is to exclude people who differ from these […]

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Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

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Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

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In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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