February 2004
by Yasna Uberoi
Welcome to Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail update on what’s new in the Women, Ink. collection, selected web sites, events of interest, and more… Please note that your friends and colleagues who don’t have e-mail can receive a print version (just send us names and addresses). We also welcome your ideas and suggestions. As always, we have additional resources, events of interest and websites related to the topic at hand listed after the book descriptions. We hope that this information supplements your research and adds value to the book information provided.
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A Mixed Bag of Exciting New Titles
The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (third edition)
Joni Seager
In this revision of her ground-breaking atlas, the author grows on a vast amount of new global data to explore the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, beauty, culture, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, time budgets, children, lesbian rights, women and government and more.
2003. 128 pages. ISBN 0142002410. US$20.00
Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (second edition)
Valentine M Moghadam
Moghadam's influential study of gender dynamics and social processes in the Middle East has been fully updated to reflect a decade of major changes—including shifts in development strategy and population policy, the rise of a reform movement in Iran incorporating both Islamic and secular feminists, and the rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. New data and analysis of emerging trends make this second edition a welcome successor.
2003. 325 pages. ISBN: 1-58826-171-9. US$22.50
Gender, Development and Poverty
Caroline Sweetman (ed)
This book examines the complex links between poverty and inequality between women and men. It shows how gender inequalities impact on men’s, women’s and children’s experiences of poverty, and demonstrates the importance of integrating gender analysis into every aspect of development initiatives. Covering a range of issues including macro-level neoliberal restructuring, poverty reduction strategies, gender budgets, education, HIV/AIDS, globalization and poverty in the North, the contributors bring new insights into the impacts of gender-blind development policies at all levels. Illustrating their analysis with examples from Peru, Sudan, Tanzania, Ghana, Togo, and the UK, they show how gender equality forms an integral part of "development," which must be mainstreamed into all poverty alleviation programs and development initiatives.
2003. 104 pages. ISBN: 0 85598 480 5. US$16.50
Reference Materials of Note also Available from Women, Ink.
Progress of the World's Women vol 2: Gender and the Millennium Development Goals. UNIFEM
The data and statistics collected and analyzed in this report present a picture of women's empowerment in the new century, and illuminate what remains to be done to achieve true gender equality. Among key findings are that Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest levels of achievement, primarily because of a devastating combination of national poverty, conflict and the effects of HIV/AIDS. The report uses the indicators created for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of 8 goals established at a UN conference in 2000. These goals represent the values that world governments have agreed should guide global development: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility.
2003. ISBN: 0-912919770-9. WE 628. US$16.95
Additional Resources, Events and Websites
* 48th Commission on the Status of Women. March 1-12, UN Headquarters. Main thematic issues: the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality and women’s equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peacebuilding. For a schedule and additional information, go to http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/48sess.htm
* Regional Workshop for Women' NGOs on the ICC and Gender Justice: March 18-20, Santiago, Chile. This workshop is part of the campaign for the Andean Region and South Cone. Email: ciudadania.domos@terra.cl,gmaira@lamorada.cl
* 5th Annual Conference on Gender and Southeast Asia "Emerging Issues and New Challenges: Human and Resource Development in Southeast Asia including Transitional Societies of Indochina (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar)". March 28-29, Bangkok. Website: http://www.geocities.com/wari9/index.htm Email: concourse02@yahoo.com
* Global Summit of Women 2004: May 27-29, Seoul, Korea. Continuing its emphasis on promoting women's participation in the global market, the 2004 Summit focuses on accelerating women's economic development with an emphasis on cross-border business alliances. For more information go to http://globewomen.com/
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