Gender in the 21st Century

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Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2000-01-01
Subject
Education
Gender
Health
Keywords
Water and sanitation
Health systems
Gender training
SRHR
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
HIV and AIDS
Country
Zimbabwe
Nicaragua

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description
From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially marginalised, at a time when the globalisation of business, industry, and communications technology is radically changing our world. But who is deciding the rules of this 'stateless society', and how can women and men who live in poverty challenge them? What other questions do gender and development workers face? Possible answers come from Ruth Pearson, Madhu Bala Nath, Peter Sternberg and Judy El-Bushra.
Table of contents
Editorial; Moving the goalposts: Gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century; Gender, globalisation, and democracy; Globalisation and gender training for the media: Challenges and lessons learned; Women's labour and economic globalisation: A participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development; 'We are forgotten on earth': International development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia; Rethinking gender and development practice for the twenty-first century; 'Put your money where your mouth is!': The need for public investment in women's organisations; Culture as a barrier to rural women's entrepreneurship: Experience from Zimbabwe; 'Queering' development: Exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development; Challenging machismo: Promoting sexual and reproductive health with Nicaraguan men; Women's health and HIV: Experience from a sex workers' project in Calcutta; Resources
Pages
121
ISBN
978-0-85598-427-4
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121150
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-in-the-21st-century-121150
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