WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #73
November 2007
Joeyta Bose
1. Gender and Trade Action
Guide - A Training Resource 2. Migrant Women and Work:
Women and Migration in Asia Volume 4 3. Revisiting Gender Training
: The Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge - A Global
Sourcebook: Gender, Society & Development Series
4. Negotiating Culture:
Intersections of Culture and Violence Against
Women in Asia
Pacific 5. Against All Odds: Women
Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis
(DVD Visit our website at
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titles. Gender and Trade Action Guide - A
Training Resource Developed out of a series of
regional workshops, this action guide explores the
different impacts of trade on women and men; provides
practical tools on how to take advantage of the
opportunities trade can offer to further development,
alleviate poverty and promote gender equality; and
suggests ways to get gender onto the international trade
agenda. The Action Guide is flexible and can be used by
trainers or for self-study. It includes case studies,
activities, training suggestions and recommended readings
provided on CD-ROM and can be used as a basic
introduction or as a resource to develop capacity
building for others. It will enable people to take action
and apply what is learned to their own context and
requirements. Aimed at government officers in relevant
trade sectors, gender specialists, NGOs, regional trade
policy advisers and more, the guide is intended
particularly for those who are responsible for capacity
building and bringing about change, for example through
training, briefing or lobbying. Migrant Women and Work: Women and
Migration in Asia Volume 4 Gender-sensitive studies about
migration have shown that women's migration cannot be
explained solely in terms of household migration or
marriage migration. This volume of papers studies the
patterns and consequences of long-term migration among
Asian women, primarily "solo migrant women" who migrate
globally as well as across the Asian continent in order
to find work. Covering a broad terrain of gender issues,
the volume analyzes the changing gender composition of
migration streams, examines the specific conditions under
which migration occurs and considers the different
outcomes that migration brings to men and women.
Contributors use case studies like the migration of
Filipino women, Thai rural women's migration to Bangkok,
Indian nurses in the Gulf and Asian women medical workers
in the UK to discuss a variety of issues from a fresh
perspective including gender equality, household division
of labor and state policies regarding welfare provisions.
Revisiting Gender Training: The
Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge - A Global
Sourcebook: Gender, Society & Development Series What are the implications of
building feminist knowledge and approaches, which
ultimately challenge traditional models of power and
knowledge, in contexts that value acquisition of
knowledge over processes of learning? What are the
assumptions of the links between knowledge, attitudes,
behaviors and practice in gender studies and training and
how do these mesh with the learning and knowledge
contexts of the societies and organizations where such
educations and training occur? This book is concerned
with the thought behind gender education and training
rather than with day-to-day practice. Weaving together
case studies from India, Uganda, the Maghreb and
Francophone Africa, this book critically explores the
explicit and implicit assumptions in gender training -
about the nature of knowledge, how knowledge is imparted
and about knowing. It includes an extensive and
up-to-date annotated bibliography of international
resources (print and online) on the subject as well. Negotiating Culture: Intersections
of Culture and Violence Against Women in Asia Pacific In order to be successful in
upholding universal values, in particular the principle
that no custom, tradition, or religious consideration can
be invoked to justify violence against women, it is
necessary to address and understand the process of
legitimization that cultural discourses dictate. This
report challenges us to systematically engage in a
"cultural negotiation" whereby the positive elements of
our cultures are emphasized, while the oppressive
elements in culture-based discourses are demystified.
Emerging from a regional consultation between NGOs in the
Asia-Pacific region and the UN Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women, this consultation primarily
evaluates the linkages between culture and violations of
women's human rights in the Asia Pacific region. It names
women as agents of culture rather than merely subjects of
cultural norms and systems and offers strategies for
addressing harmful cultural paradigms by engaging with
international, state, and non-state actors. Against All Odds: Women Partnering
for Change in a Time of Crisis War, violence, extremism,
fundamentalism and restrictive legislation are just some
of the most striking hurdles that women must overcome as
they strive for the most rudimentary of rights. This DVD
tells the story of women activists from Africa, Asia,
Latin America, and the Middle East who have worked in
partnerships to develop and implement appropriate
strategies to overcome these various challenges. Women
leaders in this film speak of the ways and means of
strengthening women's movements by building alliances,
sharing inter-generational experience and expertise, and
creating contextual, culture-specific, grassroots-based
approaches to empowering women and girls. *********************************************************************** RESOURCES Free resources on gender and
development available over the Internet: 1. BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on
Gender & Indicators 2. State of the World's
Population 2006 3. Women Claming Rights,
Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women's Human Rights
Defenders 4. Website on Gender Equality
Laws 5. WOMANSTATS Database Orders made through
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This month's Booklink
features an exciting array of titles and additional
resources about a variety of issues, including gender
and trade, migration, training, violence and movement
building. The new titles for the month are:
Catherine Atthill, Sarojini Ganju Thakur, Marilyn Carr
& Mariama Williams
2007. 214 pages + CD-ROM. ISBN 978-0-85092-862-4. WE855.
$29.00
Editor: Anuja Agrawal
2006. 226 pages. ISBN: 9780761934578. WE860.
$33.95
Editors: Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Franz
Wong
2007. 176 pages. ISBN 9789068327359. WE 858.
$27.50
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and
Development
2006. 82 pages. ISBN 974-94992-2-0. WE845.
$17.95
Editor: Women's Learning Partnership
2006. DVD. WE848. $24.95
Institute for Development Studies. 2007
Gender-sensitive indicators and other measurements of
change are critical - for building the case for taking
gender (in)equality seriously, for enabling better
planning and actions, and for holding institutions
accountable for their commitments on gender. Available in
English and French, the information pack examines
conceptual and ethodological approaches to gender and
measurements of change. It focuses on current debates and
good practice on indicators from the grassroots to the
international level. The pack comprises a comprehensive
report, supporting resources and a brief about the topic
at hand.
Find out more at:
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#Indicators
A Passage to Hope: Women & International
Migration
United Nation's Population Fund. 2006
Today, half of all international migrants - 95 million -
are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial
contributions to both their families at home and
communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue
to be overlooked and ignored. This report examines the
scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the
funds they send home to support families and communities,
and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking,
exploitation and abuse. It reveals that although migrant
women contribute billions of dollars in cash and
services, policymakers continue to disregard both their
contributions and their vulnerability-even though female
migrants tend to send a much higher proportion of their
lower earnings back home than their male counterparts.
Download the report in English, French, Spanish, Arabic
or Russian at:
http://www.unfpa.org/publications/detail.cfm?ID=311
Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development.
2007
Aimed at helping women human rights defenders name the
specific risks, violations and constraints they face in
their work, this book presents a practical discussion of
the useful mechanisms developed by the state and civil
society to redress, remedy and protect women human rights
defenders. It is intended to be used by human rights and
other organisations to further a gender perspective in
the monitoring and documentation of rights and provides
the basis for continuing engagement with issues regarding
the protection of women human rights defenders at both
the conceptual and practical levels.
Get your own copy at:
http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/resources.php
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia
Pacific. 2007
A new section on the organizationís website
includes gender equality laws from 39 countries across
the world, including Albania, China, Kosovo, Laos,
Moldova, South Korea and Tajikistan. If you have
information on laws that address gender equality that you
would like to share with others, write to
iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org.
For more information, visit:
http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/laws.htm
Aimed at providing researchers, policymakers,
students, and laypersons with a comprehensive compilation
of information on the status of women in the world, this
database contains over 240 variables on the status of
women for 172 nation-states with populations over
200,000. Variables include those relating to nine aspects
of women's situation and security, including physical,
economic and legal security, security in the community
and family, security for maternity, security through
voice, security through societal investment in women and
women's security in the state. The database will also
include seven indices of women's situation and security,
including indices ranking nations concerning level of
violence against women in society, equity in family law
for women, degree of son preference, toleration of
trafficking in women, extent to which women are involved
in societal decision-making, access to appropriate health
care for women, and societal investment in advancing
women's opportunities.
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