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NGOs, gender, culture and multiculturalism: a Zimbabwean view

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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NGOs, gender, culture and multiculturalism: a Zimbabwean view

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If women led a sustained, multi-pronged challenge to male domination, social change could become a reality. Such change must be practical and embrace economic and health systems, popular education and the media, and female role models. The author recounts opposition she faced – by women as well as men – when she questioned gender norms. […]

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Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

01/02/1995

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Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

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Those seeking gender equality must take care when challenging harmful cultural practices not to damage practices that are neutral or constructive for women. This article suggests ways to do this. Local cultural contexts must always be understood, and ways sought to empower women long term, particularly by changing patriarchal attitudes. Local women’s groups can achieve […]

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Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

01/02/1995

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Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

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This article looks at challenges faced by development practitioners addressing issues of gender and culture. False assumptions undermine such work: that oppressed women are passive; that people never question state religion and that ‘culture’ and ‘religion’ are interchangeable terms; and that cultural norms remain stagnant. Practitioners should instead take advantage of the ever-changing nature of […]

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Opposition to gender-sensitive development learning to answer back

01/02/1995

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Opposition to gender-sensitive development learning to answer back

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Gender-aware policies are being undermined by self-protective, patriarchal development agencies and developing country governments. These institutions oppose the policies out of passivity or on ideological grounds. Longwe presents seven arguments they use and gives her redresses. The arguments are that women’s equality is: unnecessary, interference and Western imposition; not desired by women themselves; not a […]

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Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

01/02/1995

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Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

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This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […]

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Introduction

01/02/1995

5 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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Book

Societies in Transition

01/01/1995

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil society

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In this book, the theme of transition is treated in an innovative and holistic way to include not only the changeover to democracy and free-market economics in former Eastern-bloc countries, but other forms of major social and personal transformation, such as change resulting from armed conflict, and the process of ageing. The emphasis is on […]

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Women and Rights

01/01/1995

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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The UN Human Rights Conference in 1993 proclaimed that ‘Women’s rights are human rights’. This book in the Focus on Gender series explores issues of women’s rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation

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Invisible threads

01/10/1994

6 pages long

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Two case studies from Guatemala and Bangladesh illustrate Oxfam’s Fair Trade programme. This seeks to foster relations between Southern producers and Northern consumers, ensuring the former fair livelihoods, and communicating the fair trade message to the latter. Multiple connecting threads lie at the heart of the programme. The vast majority of participants are women, because […]

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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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