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This selection of essays presents an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution and puts forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends.

Women, State, and Ideology examines the underlying ideologies that make female subordination a universal experience. It analyzes government policies directed at women in African and Asian countries. It argues, too, that ideologies which oppress women are removed only by prolonged struggle--and then only after fundamental political and social changes have been made.The authors evaluate different policies aimed at women in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Gha...

This work provides a feminist analytical pespective on the forms of resistance, organization and negotiation used by women in Third World states, including regions as diverse as Latin America, China and the Middle East.

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This work is on the inter-relationships of race and gender, and the consequences of racism, for women of different backgrounds. The book aims to contribute to the debate and understanding in this area. Emphasis has been given to age, class, disability, race and sexuality.

The authors argue that much of the research into later life has neglected ethnic and cultural variation. Their aim is to help us to understand what is important in older women's lives across a range of ethnic groups. They have certainly achieved this in what is a readable and detailed analysis of their findings. Highly recommended."Nursing Standard"...the first book to comprehensively examine the lives of older women from ethnic minorities in ...

An innovative feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation used by women in Third World states.

List of Contents - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1 DUALISTIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Economic Development and Revolutionary Upheavals in Iran, M.H.Pesaran - The Impact of the Urban Per Capita on Agricultural Output: A Case Study, K.Afshar - An Assessment of Agricultural Development Policies in Iran, H.Afshar - Tribes, State in Iran: From Pahlavi to Islamic Republic, R.Fazel - Iran's Petroleu...

The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? Do political parties facilitate or do they channel energies away from empowerment? They evaluate how in different circumstanc...

The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular have borne a disproportionate burden of the ensuing hardships. This book addresses the shortcomings in the current gender blind analytical framewor...

This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally.

This book examines the contradictions between the prevailing ideologies and cultural practices and the economic interests of women in poor households in Asia. Here the primacy of economic needs necessitates that all members of the household, women, men and children engage in income generating employment, yet at the same time prevailing ideologies often impose restrictions on women's work. Thus caught in the poverty trap they face conflicting c...

The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create 'effective demand'? Is it about the ability to make choices? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? Do political parties facilitate or do they channel energies away from empowerment? They evaluate how in different circumstanc...