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This book considers the gendered dimensions of climate change. It shows how gender analysis has been widely overlooked in debates about climate change and its interactions with poverty and demonstrates its importance for those seeking to understand the impacts of global environmental change on human communities.

Writers here focus on campaigning and advocacy work as well as work with women who have experienced violence in countries including Russia, Guinea-Bissau and India. It includes accounts of work with women who have been sexually assaulted and those who have undergone cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage.

This collection explores how young women's movements, along with the support they need, can offer a model of political, intersectional work to guide and re-politicise international development.

This collection explores how young women's movements, along with the support they need, can offer a model of political, intersectional work to guide and re-politicise international development.

Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women's empowerment.

Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women's empowerment.

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation - women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world's illiterate people - and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this.

This book draws on the experience of organizations working to promote women's full participation in the development process, looking at the obstacles that stand in the way, examining gender auditing, the institutionalization of gender, integrating gender into country programmes, the process of creating a gender strategy and using gender training.

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women's opportunities.

Change and upheaval are a way of life for millions of women and men throughout the world, the articles in this work assert that, while transition creates hardship and trauma, it can give women an opportunity to challenge the negative aspects of relations between the sexes.

This book looks at co-operation for development: between North, South, and East, women's organizations and funding agencies, development practitioners, academics, and civil society, politicians and economists, and men and women. The book explores how essential it is for Northern funding agencies to foster multiculturalism and gender equality.

This book highlights the need for an approach to population control which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services and information in the context of women's empowerment.

Authors here share experience of working with men to question traditional ideas about masculinity. Men rejecting these norms are not only happier, but are also critical allies with women in struggles for gender equality. Feminist work by men, with men, is a critical part of gender-transformative development.

Authors here share experience of working with men to question traditional ideas about masculinity. Men rejecting these norms are not only happier, but are also critical allies with women in struggles for gender equality. Feminist work by men, with men, is a critical part of gender-transformative development.

This text studies aspects of urban life from a gender perspective, with social, technical and political aspects of urban life. Articles cover gender-sensitive urban planning, work migration, community urban regeneration schemes, health care for poor urban women, and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.

International development policy-makers of the industrialized countries are focusing on understanding and tackling northern poverty. The articles in this collection examine the phenomenon of the globalization of poverty and unemployment as it relates to gender identity.

This text compares the effectiveness of approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. It emphasizes the importance of studying the local context, and then considering macro-economic factors which may be operating upon the economy.

This book explores women's rights: the legal background of human rights legislation, the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees, violence against women as a human rights violation, the rights of disabled women and the importance of providing information and training to enable women to claim their rights.

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Contributions from feminist activists, development researchers and workers here focus on collective forms of enterprise to maximise co-operation between poor women entrepreneurs, women workers' rights and corporate accountability, gender and Fair Trade, and women's economic empowerment.