Gender, Development, and Diversity

Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities - including gender, race, class and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. This collection of articles focuses on the implications that this has for development goals of poverty alleviation and human rights. In particular, critiques from Southern women challenge development organisations for their inadequate and inappropriate policy and practice. Development programmes have addressed gender inequality as a key concern, but most organisations have yet to understand how other aspects of difference intersect with gender to unite and divide groups of women from each other. Improving development policy and practice means understanding inequality in its complexity, and developing ways of working which acknowledge difference, rather than suppress it. It means practising as we preach, by transforming our own organisational cultures. This entails confronting issues of power and inequality, and challenging racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. Contributors to this issue include Ranjani K Murthy, Everjoice Win, and Dorine Plantenga. Case studies come from India, Zimbabwe, Latin America and the UK.

ISBN 0855985313   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780855985318 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 240 Publisher Oxfam Publishing   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxfam Professional   Series ISSN 0968-286 Format Paperback   Series title Oxfam Focus on Gender Publication date 01 May 2004   Height (mm) 250 Library of Congress HQ1240   Width (mm) 190 DEWEY 305.42091724   Spine width (mm) 6 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate Pages 96

		Editorial by Caroline Sweetman		2
		Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women : bridging the gap by Ranjani K. Murthy		10
		When sharing female identity is not enough : coalition building in the midst of political polarisation in Zimbabwe by Everjoice J. Win		19
		Microfinance from the point of view of women with disabilities : lessons from Zambia and Zimbabwe by Cindy Lewis		28
		Gender, identity, and diversity : learning from insights gained in transformative gender graining by Dorine Plantenga		40
		Promoting cultural diversity and the rights of women : the dilemmas of 'intersectionality' for development organisations by Liesbeth van der Hoogte and Koos Kingma		47
		Diversity in Oxfam GB : engaging the head and turning the heart by Bimla Ojelay-Surtees		56
		Poverty reduction policy responses to gender and social diversity in Uganda by Dereje Wordofa		68
		Empowerment through activism : responding to domestic violence in the South Asian community in London by Aisha Gill and Gulshun Rehman		75
		Resources by Leigh, Erin		83

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