May 2006
Joeyta Bose
New Titles: Women and Armed Conflict, Organizing/Empowerment and Globalization Welcome to the Women, Ink. Booklink, the monthly e-mail bulletin on what’s new in our collection in June. This month, we also feature a resource section in the areas of armed conflict, organizing/empowerment and globalization. The new titles for this month are:
- Where are all the women? U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Gender, Development and Advocacy
- On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era
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Where are all the women? U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Editors: Sarai Aharoni and Rula DeebIn April 2003, Isha l’ Isha - Haifa Feminist Center and Kayan - Feminist Organization organized the first national conference addressing the relevance of Resolution 1325 to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This collection of essays is based on lectures that were given during that conference and provides basic information about the resolution, explains its relevance to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and outlines attempts made by Israeli and Palestinian organizations to call for its implementation in the region. The essays also reveal the gendered aspects of human rights violations and describe the effects of regional armed conflict on the daily lives of Palestinian and Israeli women - including its impact on health, education and personal security. All essays are in English, Arabic and Hebrew.2006. ISBN 965-7171-11-3. 195 pages. WE752. US$10.00
Gender, Development and Advocacy
Edited by Koos Kingma and Caroline Sweetman.Women have been protesting against gender-based subordination for centuries, calling for changes to laws, customs and social practices. The articles in this collection chart the experiences, challenges, and successes of gender equality advocates in Pakistan, Australia, Uganda and southern Africa as they bid to create more equitable societies. Khawar Mumtaz charts the flowering of the women’s movement in Pakistan against the country’s struggle for independence from British rule while Kristy Evans, in her guide to feminist advocacy, discusses how advocacy to secure justice for women as a marginalized group differs qualitatively from advocacy undertaken to further a less value-laden goal. The tensions inherent in social movements when attempts are made to address complex inequalities arising from multiple aspects of social identity are addressed by Theresa Sand’s article about advocacy surrounding women with disability and Emma Bell’s piece on women living with HIV/AIDS. A comprehensive resource section, featuring books, organizations, web sites, and electronic resources, is included at the back of the book.2005. ISBN 0-85598-552-6. 90 pages. WE753. US$16.50
On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era
Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-SimoneThe rise in global communications is one of the many forces of change transforming - and being transformed by - the lives of Muslim women. This cutting-edge collection describes how women from across the Islamic world make powerful use of the new media like blogs and satellite television - and sometimes face a powerful backlash. Fatema Mernissi writes about women as communicators in "digital Islam," while Lila Abu-Lughod looks at the complicated impact of television soap operas on Egyptian women as producers, actors, and citizenship in an information society, and Leila Ahmed revisits the "veil debate." Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi - printed here for the first time in English - discusses transforming human rights from an Islamic feminist perspective. Together, these fascinating and accessible essays explode Western stereotypes about Muslim women, as they describe women claiming their full voice in politics, religion, and culture.2005. ISBN 1-55861-513-X. 90 pages. WE754. US$18.95
RESOURCES
For those who want to know more about women and armed conflict, women organizing and women and globalization:
Women and Armed Conflict:
1. Women Talk Peace: Radio Productions on UNSCR 1325, 2005-2006
The International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC) has produced two sets of prototype radio programs about UNSCR 1325 in partnership with community broadcasters in the Philippines and Uganda. The first set was dubbed and broadcast in English and Filipino for an audience in the Philippines and other parts of Asia. The second set was made available in English, Luganda and Swahili for listeners in Uganda and other conflict-affected countries in Africa. All programs are available online in .mp3 format, as are the scripts.
Listen in at: http://www.iwtc.org/2983/index.html2. New Translations of UNSCR 1325, 2006
The text of UNSCR 1325 is available online in 73 languages and has recently been translated into Filipino, Hausa and Yoruba. If you want to add a translation in any other language, write to info@peacewomen.org
Find out more at: http://www.peacewomen.org/1325inTranslation/index.html3. Recent reports and papers on women and armed conflict
3a. Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in War and Its Aftermath: Realities, Responses, and Required Resources, 2006: Prepared by United Nations Population Fund as a briefing paper for the Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond, this document examines the nature and scope of violence against war-affected women and children, provides an overview of existing programs and resources to combat it, and ends with an assessment of progress and challenges.
Access the paper at: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6QSEN8?OpenDocument3b. Women as Participants and Victims of Conflict, 2006:
This paper looks at women in conflict as victims of violence and also as active participants. It highlights the idea that women are often overlooked as valuable participants in peace negotiations, peace building and post-conflict activities because these have traditionally been male-dominated domains. Further, the author argues, women are excluded from peace discussions because they are viewed as victims, lack the organizational force to bring their own strategies to the table and often present non-traditional interventions for peace. The paper concludes by listing several opportunities for reflecting a gender perspective in the peace process, including the ideas that women’s peace activism encompasses concerns for food security, access to land, forest, water and other resources, and therefore contribute to justice and human security; numerous studies have noted that gender roles change during conflict and can entail positive potential for social changes in gender relations; women peace negotiators understand and articulate the implications of peace processes for women better than male negotiators.
Access the paper at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/search/disp/DocDisplay.cfm?Doc=DOC21934&Resource=f1gender3c: Claiming Space: Reconfiguring Women's Roles in Post-Conflict Situations, 2006:
This paper explores the possibilities of using the institutional frameworks of the United Nations and the African Union to include women in peace negotiations, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction efforts. It contends that women on the African continent can avail of these international rights-based frameworks in their political efforts to achieve equality and political representation. The paper focuses on the violence that women experience in conflict situations and the potential of state policies and practices as corrective measures for gender inequities.
Access the paper at:
http://www.iss.co.za/index.php?link_id=26&slink_id=367&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3
Women's Empowerment/ Women Organizing:
1. Women's Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography, 2006
Compiled by BRIDGE, this bibliography gathers together a range of materials which discuss women’s empowerment from varied perspectives in order to provide an accessible introduction to key concepts, approaches and debates. The resource is divided into four sections: key texts, policy and practice, evaluation and critiques/debates.
Start your research at: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/bibliographies.htm2. Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring Analysis and Framing Indicators, 2005
The analytical framework described by this paper operates from the standpoint that empowerment is a person's capacity to make effective choices and transform choices into desired actions and outcomes. Further, the extent or degree to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made). Various indicators are suggested to measure these components to determine degrees of empowerment and the entire framework is put to the test through development interventions in Ethiopia, Nepal, Honduras and Mexico. The module can be used alone or be integrated into country-level poverty or governance monitoring systems that seek to add an empowerment dimension to their analysis.
Find out more at: http://www.siyanda.org/static/alsop_empowerment.htm3. Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, 2005
How can the global community achieve the third Millennium Development Goal of gender equality and the empowerment of women? This report, prepared by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Gender and Equality argues, that if women are to be empowered, they must fulfill the basic human needs for health, education and nutrition, have access to political and economic resources and capabilities and be free from the fear of violence and conflict. It identifies strategic priorities and practical actions for achieving women's empowerment by 2015, including strengthening opportunities for post-primary education for girls; investing in infrastructure to reduce women's and girls' time burdens; guaranteeing women's and girls' property and inheritance rights; increasing women's share of seats in national parliaments and local governmental bodies; and combating violence against girls and women.
Download the report at: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_gender.htm
Women and Globalization:
1. Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World, 2005
Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as "late industrializers," relied on a managed-market approach with the state that employed a wide variety of policy instruments to promote industrialization. Nevertheless, while Asian growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender-wage gaps. Gender-equitable macroeconomic and development policies are thus required, including financial market regulation, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending.
Download the paper at: http://www.levy.org/default.asp?view=publications_view&pubID=105350606e7
2. A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All, 2004
Over the past two decades, economic processes associated with globalization have deeply impacted the lives of men and women of all ages, nationalities, social classes and ethnicities around the globe. The economic liberalization policies that have underpinned these processes are criticized as being "corporate-led‚" anti-poor, gender- and class-biased and destructive to the environment. While they appear to have existed "from time immemorial" unequal gender relations are both shaped by and, in turn, shape globalization. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of our current knowledge of the complex relationship between gender inequalities, on the one hand, and the economic liberalization policies that underpin globalization processes, on the other. Another objective is to discuss a range of economic policy proposals and initiatives, including at the macroeconomic level, which aim to promote gender equity in the context of the world economy.
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