Gender in the 21st Century

From the perspective of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the 21st 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 af 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.

ISBN 0855984279   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780855984274 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 290 Publisher Oxfam Publishing   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxfam Professional   Series editor Sweetman, Caroline, Masika, Rachel Format Paperback   Series ISSN 0968-286 Publication date 11 May 2000   Series title Oxfam Focus on Gender Library of Congress HQ   Height (mm) 246 DEWEY 338.9   Width (mm) 187 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 8 Pages 80   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate

		Editorial by Caroline Sweetman		2
		Moving the goalposts: Gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century by Ruth Pearson		10
		Gender, globalisation, and democracy by Sylvia Walby		20
		Globalisation and gender training for the media: Challenges and lessons learned by Patricia A. Made		29
		Women's labour and economic globalisation: A participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development by Carol Barton and Elmira Nazombe		35
		'We are forgotten on earth': International development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia by Fra von Massow		45
		Rethinking gender and development practice for the twenty-first century by Judy El-Bushra		55
		'Put your money where your mouth is!': The need for public investment in women's organisations by Siobhan Riordan		63
		Culture as a barrier to rural women's entrepreneurship: Experience from Zimbabwe by Colletah Chitsike		71
		'Queering' development: Exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development by Susie Jolly		78
		Challenging machismo: Promoting sexual and reproductive health with Nicaraguan men by Peter Sternberg		89
		Women's health and HIV: Experience from a sex workers' project in Calcutta by Madhu Bala Nath		100
		Resources by Erin Murphy Graham		109

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