Separatism or Integration? Margareth R Msonganzila When Tanzania attained independence in 1961, the co-operative movement which had its roots in colonial period and had heen primarily a grass roots...
Review of Women's Studies
Liberation Struggle Case of Eritrea Worku Zerai Eritrea gained independence in 1993 from Ethiopian occupation after a long struggle for liberation. Women were active participants in the struggle and...
Limits and Possibilities of Law and Legal Literacy Experience of Bangladesh Women Fatema Rashid Hasan The demand for rights, and enforcement of existing rights has played an integral part in the...
Programme in India Significance of the Household Joy R Ranadive This article seeks to emphasise the importance of accounting for the distributional effects of structural adjustment policies. While...
Force and Organisational Strategies Nandita Shah Sujata Gothoskar Nandita Gandhi Amrita Chhachhi The argument that SAP will lead to feminisation of labour and the availability of jobs for women...
Rural Industry Tile Making in Java Juliani Wahyana The introduction of new technology in tile making in Java has disrupted the social relations among its people in particular between men and women...
Jayati Ghosh While the impact of short-term stabilisation measures are disquieting, they can still be reversed. The likely long- term effects of liberalisation measures which move towards greater...
Kumud Sharma The effects of fiscal and monetary policies on women is determined by the social matrix and gendered patterns of resource use and control in rural households. The concept of '...
Iftikhar Ahmed As a response to the twin challenges of feminisation of work and the feminisation of poverty, a combination of multiple policy strategies have been suggested for boosting women's...
Women, Feminism and New Global Solidarity Peter Waterman The women's movement has long been active internationally and is often considered the exemplar of both the new social movements and a new...
Impact of Public Policies and Practices in Uganda Hilda Ntege Uganda's policy-makers, architects and designers of housing and settlement programmes perceive themselves as planning for 'people'...
Janine Mossuz-Lavau Until as late as the 1980s the laws of the state and norms of society in France combined to regulate sexual behaviour and restrict aspects of sexuality in several ways. The...
Vending and Public Space in Chile Lorena Nunez The informal sector is often seen as being composed of a lump sum of people's failures, or is defined as arising out of limitations in the formal...
Women, Legal Discourse and Saffron Agenda Ratna Kapur Brend a Cossman The relationship between discourses of secularism and equality, between religion and women are "mutually constituting...
Indian State and Abduction of Women during Partition Ritu Menon Kamla Bhasin The rending of the social and emotional fabric that took place with the Partition of India in 1947 is still far from...