March 2005
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
New Titles in the Women, Ink. Collection
- Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating autonomy, incorporation, and representation
- Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing
- Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws, and customs in the Muslim world
- Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth: Some critical issues for action in the decade 2005-2015
- Household Decisions, Gender and Development : A synthesis of recent research
- Exploring Masculinity
- Agencies for Development Assistance, 6th edition
The recently concluded 49th session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women and 10-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action brought in a new harvest of women’s resources on a broad range of topics. Following is a sampling of these new exciting titles in our Women, Ink. Collection.
Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating autonomy, incorporation, and representation
by Gisela Geisler
published by the Nordic Africa Institute
This book offers a comparative view of women’s political participation and representation in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa with additional materials form Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. It chronicles African women's long history of political involvement and draws attention to the women's participation in anti-colonial struggles and national liberation movements. It analyzes post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by women's movements to gain a foothold in politics.
The author presents in depth analyses and women's narratives of their experiences in political parties, in national machineries for the advancement of women and in the autonomous women's movements. The material presented in this book is the result of the author's 20 years of intermittent research that started in the early 1980s. It is based on secondary sources as well as interviews with women politicians and gender activists in different South African countries. In addition, the author used more qualitative research methods born out of her long relationship with specific countries namely Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
2004. ISBN 91-7106-515-6. 241 pages. WE 690. US$37.50
Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing
written and researched by Cynthia Rothschild; edited and with contributions by Scott Long and Susana T. Fried.published by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Center for Women's Global Leadership
Originally published in 2000, this book has been updated to include an analysis of the current political climate and recent experiences of sexuality-baiting directed at women because of their political work, who they are, or who they are seen to be. In this revised report, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Center for Women's Global Leadership again show how attacks on women's sexualities threaten all women's basic human rights to bodily integrity, to expression, and to association - as well as undermine essential values of equality and dignity.
This book documents attacks by right-wing opponents seeking to undermine the work of women in politics or in legal and social advocacy in countries ranging from the United States to Argentina, India, Thailand, Costa Rica and more. It also document strategies that show how international groups have responded and fought back.
2005. ISBN 0-9711412-3-1. 188 pages. WE 701. US$15
Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws, and customs in the Muslim world
Written, compiled and published by Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Pakistan
This handbook forms part of the international synthesis of the Women and Law in the Muslim World action-research program of the international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws. It is based on some 10 years of field experience, research and analysis by multi-disciplinary teams of networkers in over 20 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These include majority and minority Muslim communities; communities which are governed by family laws based on Muslim laws and those which are subject to a general law applicable to all communities; legal systems that formally recognize customary laws, and those that do not; as well as diverse (and changing) political situations.
This handbook covers 26 topics relevant to marriage and divorce, including the status of children (paternity and adoption) and child custody and guardianship, in so far as these affect the lives of women as mothers. It provides a user-friendly, cross-comparative analysis of the diversities and commonalities of laws and customs across the Muslim world and ranks laws in Muslim communities in terms of whether they are more or less option-giving for women, analyzed from a rights perspective and the realities of women's lives.
Knowing Our Rights is designed as a tool for activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy related to women's rights within the family at the policy level as well as in communities. It is an essential resource for those taking a critical approach to rights, laws, and constructions of womanhood in Muslim countries and communities and beyond.
2003. ISBN 0-9544943-0-X. 360 pages. WE 695. US$30.00
Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth: Some critical issues for action in the decade 2005-2015
edited by Tina Johnson
published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, London
This book is part of the overall efforts to contribute to current policy-making, program planning and implementation on Gender and Human Rights. It is intended for a broad range of audiences including policy makers, magistrates, judges and lawyers, academics and civil society organizations that deal with these issues. It is also intended as a conceptual and policy-oriented resource for those committed to implementing and supporting the Human Rights goals of the new Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.
This book features a compilation of the papers commissioned for a Pan-Commonwealth Expert Group Meeting on Gender and Human Rights held at the Commonwealth Secretariat, in London in February 2004. The papers address a wide range of Gender and Human Rights issues, including the convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), gender-based violence, culture and the law, indigenous peoples, trafficking and migration, land and property rights, diversity, and a life cycle approach to gender and human rights. Together with other key background papers, they represent much of the analysis and experience from Commonwealth member countries that informed the development of the Human Rights section of the new Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.
2004. ISBN: 0-85092-808-7. 311 pages. WE 705. US$22.00
Household Decisions, Gender and Development : A synthesis of recent research
edited by Agnes R. Quisumbing
published by the International Food and Policy Research Institute‚ Washington. D.C.
What does the latest research tell us about gender and development? This book addresses this question by presenting a summary of research results and policy implications of 27 studies on the subject. It synthesizes the International Food and Policy Research Institute's research on intrahousehold allocation in the recent years. It does not, however, attempt to impose a “unitary” view of the gender in the development process; rather, it highlights what can be learned from different approaches (both economic and non-economic) in a wide range of countries, looking at issues such as power within the household, agriculture and natural resources, health and nutrition, social norms and institutions, and policies and interventions.
The findings in this book are based on empirical and quantitative evidence but presented in non-technical language. The book is organized according to the following broad themes: power and resources within the household; agriculture and natural resources; health and nutrition; social capital, legal institutions, and property rights; and the impact of policies and interventions. Each thematic section begins with an overview of the key messages for that theme and of the specific contribution each study makes in that area. Summaries of each study follow, with suggestions for further reading. The book will be useful to teachers, students, gender and development practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. It comes with a CD ROM that contains the complete studies for readers interested in the detailed research methodologies.
2003. ISBN 0-89629-717-9. 274 pages. WE 694. US$17.95
Exploring Masculinity
by Kamla Bhasin
published by Women Unlimited‚ India
This booklet explores the meaning of masculinity and its importance in analyzing gender relations, social arrangements, political and economic systems, and religious and family ideologies. It examines hegemonic masculinity, militant masculinity, working class, as well as bourgeois masculinity. The author explains how masculinity is linked with hegemonic social pressures to underscore that macho-ism, virility, aggression and power are mandatory qualities for men. She also interrogates the link between masculinism and militarism; between communalism, fundamentalism, and masculinism; and capitalism and masculinism.
The booklet highlights the impact of negative masculinity and femininity on both women and men and proposes alternatives for transforming gender relations. The discussions of the issues are done in an easy-to-read question and answer format accompanied with illustrations by Bindia Thapar
2004. ISBN 81-88965-00-6. 68 pages. WE 669. US$7.95
Agencies for Development Assistance, 6th edition: Sources of support for community-based socio-economic and religious projects in less industrialized countries
by Pierre Aubin, George Cotter, and Beverly A. Hennigan
published by Mission Project Service‚ New York
This book profiles 340 agencies that support community-based socio-economic and religious projects in less industrialized countries. It also provides tips on how to select agencies that are most likely to support your project and how to prepare a request for assistance. In addition, this book contains an alphabetical index of all agencies and an index by country. It also includes a matrix that presents each agency, their geographical areas of operation, types of aid given as well as fields of interest. The size of grants given by the organizations profiled in this book range from US$50 - 250,000.
The type of support is not limited to funding. Organizations cited in this book also provide technical assistance in the form of research, training or support in kind such as food, medicines, clothes, books, and periodicals.
It is hoped that this book will make it easier for development and religious workers in less industrialized countries to secure the support necessary to meet the religious and socio-economic needs of the communities they serve.
2002. ISBN 0-91-3671-07-X. 431 pages. WE 692. US$50.00
Women, Ink apologizes for the technical problems that clients and subscribers might have encountered in accessing our website. There have been some changes in our server recently. Please write to us if you are still experiencing problems with our website. Rest assured that we are continuously working to improve our systems to serve you better.
If you have friends and colleagues whom you think will find the Booklinks useful, please let us know. To subscribe to Booklink, send an e-mail to wink@womenink.org and type the word "subscribe" in the subject line.
ORDERING INFORMATION All orders need to be prepaid by credit card (MasterCard/Visa), cheque (US dollars drawn on a US bank) or direct deposit into Women, Ink.‚'s bank account (Chase Bank, New York #152012761). We don't advise e-mailing your credit card number for security reasons; instead, fax it to us at 212-661-2704 or order on-line at:
http://www.womenink.org. Special shipping and handling rate for above titles only (please mention Booklink in your order): North America - US$5.00 for the first book, US$2.00 for each additional book; elsewhere - US$6.00 first, $3 each add. (surface).
Contact us for rates for airmail or courier service at:Women, Ink.,
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
Alice Quinn: Programme Coordinator, Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 207
Mary Wong: Sales Manager Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204
Fax: 212-661-2704
E-mail: wink@womenink.org Web site: http://www.womenink.orgWomen, Ink.
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204; Fax: 212-661-2704
E-mail: wink@womenink.org Web site: http://www.womenink.orgBooklinks are made possible by funding from the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)Women, Ink. empowers women worldwide with knowledge to
transform communities