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Siyanda Update:
Issue No. 7, November 2002
http://www.siyanda.org/
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INDEX:
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I. Database Highlights: including gender resources on family breakdown in Costa Rica, the women's rights movement in Kenya, and land rights in India
II. Partner Profile: OXFAM
III. Websites of Interest: Feminist Africa, new on-line journal; Gender & Natural Resources Management' (NRM); and ILO Gender Equality Tool
IV. Announcements:2003-2004 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship in Human Security
V. Call for Papers: special issue on feminist and women's organisations and networks

I. Database Highlights:
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- Families on the Verge of Breakdown? Views on Contemporary Trends in Family Life in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Chant, Sylvia, 2002
This paper explores reactions to shifts in family and household organisation among 176 low-and middle-income women and men from different age groups.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/chant_breakdown.htm

- The Women’s Rights Movement and Democratisation in Kenya, Ngugi, Mumbi, 2000
This study analyses the women’s rights movement and its impact on women in particular and on society in general.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ngugi_kenya.htm

- Women's Rights and Gender Equality in the EU Enlargement. An Opportunity for Progress, Steinhilber, Silke, 2002
Briefing paper on gender equality in the Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU), reflecting WIDE's longstanding experience in analysing EU policies from a gender perspective.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/steinhilber_wide.htm

- The Ceará Council of Women's Rights (CCDM): Can there be a Dialogue between Women's Movements and the State? Galgani, G. Esmeraldo, S.L. Pontes, and F.R.M. de Aráujo, M.S., 2000
An analysis of women's councils in Ceara, Brazil, as a forum for democratic participation between civil society and the state.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/galgani_ceara.htm

- Are we not Peasants too? Land Rights and Women's Claims in India, Agarwal, Bina, 2002
Pamphlet exploring the critical elements in securing effective and independent land rights for women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/agarwal_land.htm

- Men's Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice: Beyond Rhetoric, Sweetman, Caroline, 2001
A selection of working papers exploring the sectors and contexts in which gender and development work should involve men as beneficiaries.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sweetman_menandgad.htm

II. Partner Profile*:
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OXFAM
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/

Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organisations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

A selection of OXFAM's publications in the Siyanda database:

- "Cool Your Head, Man:" Results from an Action-research Initiative to Engage Young Men in Preventing Gender-based Violence in Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Barker, G., 2002

- Women's Labour and Economic Globalisation: a Participatory Workshop Created by Alternative Women in Development, Barton, C. and Nazombei, E., 2000

- A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks, March, C, Smyth, I, and Mukhopadhyay, M, 1999

To obtain more information on these materials go to:
http://www.siyanda.org/Search/ and type the name of the document in the keywords box.

*Partner organisations are those whose publications are featured on the Siyanda database.

III. Websites of Interest:
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- Feminist Africa: New online journal from the African Gender Institute:
http://www.feministafrica.org/
Feminist Africa responds to the heightened salience of gender in African political and intellectual landscapes. It also provides a forum for the intellectual activism that has always been as intrinsic to feminism in Africa as to feminisms anywhere else.

- Gender and Natural Resources Management' (NRM):
http://www.kit.nl/specials/html/gn_gender_and_nrm_home.asp
This web resource comprises case studies, a bibliography, tools and methods, and news and events on gender and natural resource management. It is part of a group of similar resources called 'Specials' on the KIT website at http://www.kit.nl/specials/ which concentrate on important themes in development cooperation.

- International Labour Organization-Gender and Equality Tool:
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/gender/gender.home?p_lang=en
This website is managed by the Bureau for Gender Equality, which is part of the Geneva-based Secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It contains resources such as the ILO Action Plan on Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming and ILO's first Gender Audit Report.

IV. Announcements:
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Announcing Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program on
Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique

The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) and the Centre for the
Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Centre of the City University of
New York announce a Rockefeller-funded Humanities Fellowship Program, Facing
Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique. Fellowships are
available for 2003/2004 to selected activists, academics and policymakers.
This interdisciplinary program explores the uses of a human security
framework for identifying non-discriminatory, sustainable policies for women
and girls, drawing into dialogue critical theories in the humanities and
social sciences, and discourses of policymakers and activists.
More information and application form available at: http://www.ncrw.org and
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/index.htm. Applications for 2003/2004
are due 31 January 2003

For more information, contact:
Becky Colesworthy
National Council for Research on Women
11 Hanover Square, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: 212 785-7335, extension 10
Fax: 212 785-7350
http://www.ncrw.org

V. Call for Papers:
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The Journal of International Gender Studies, based in Newcastle, Australia, plans to publish a special issue on feminist and women's organisations and networks. Projected publication is in 2004.

Contributions are sought from a range of disciplines including women's studies, anthropology, politics, sociology, geography, cultural studies, development studies and economics. Papers may be theoretically or substantively based; they may concentrate on one region, make international comparisons or may discuss networking across geographical or other boundaries.

Preference will be given to articles which address one or more of the following questions:
- Are networks and networking the characteristic form for women's organising, as for others organisations, in a globalising era?
- What distinctions can be made between feminist and women's organisations/networks in contemporary settings? Are definitions and self-definitions of feminism shifting, and in what ways?
- What opportunities might positive aspects of globalisation - for instance, the spread of discourses around human rights - afford for feminist organisations?
- Alternatively, what obstacles might globalisation processes pose? How have women's movements responded to time-space compression, to the weakening of (some) nation-states and to the continuation of neo-liberal policies?
- What activities and campaigns are taking place in the current era? do campaigns tend to be focussed on one area (e.g. the law trade policies; biological reproduction; health, etc.) or to be broader in scope? Who takes part?
- How have women's organisations and coalitions responded to recent upsurges in nationalism and to ethnic, religious and racially-based violence in many parts of the world?

Please send abstracts of 250-500 words, or expressions of interest, to Susie Jacobs as soon as possible but in any case by 15th January, 2003. Completed papers of 6,000-7,000 words will be requested by early April, 2003.

For more information contact:
Susie Jacobs (Dr.)
Dept. of Sociology,
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manton Building, Rosamund Street West,
Manchester M15 6LL.

s.jacobs@mmu.ac.uk
s.jacobs@unisonfree.net
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