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In: Progress in development studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 481-481
ISSN: 1477-027X
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In: Progress in development studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 481-481
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In: Progress in development studies, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 418-418
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In: Progress in development studies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 98-98
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In: Progress in development studies, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 337-337
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In: Progress in development studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 293-293
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In: Ethics and social welfare, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 277-295
ISSN: 1749-6543
In: Progress in development studies, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 211-213
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Pearson, Ruth and Kusakabe, Kyoko. 2012: Burmese migrant women factory workers: Thailand's hidden workforce. London and New York: Zed. 205 pp. £70 hardback. £16.99 paperback. £19.98 e-book. ISBN: 978 84813-985-5 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-84813 984-8 (paperback), ISBN: 9781848139879 (e-book).
In: Gender & history, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 516-517
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Development and change, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 265-285
ISSN: 1467-7660
Policy makers and advocates of joint forest management (JFM) agree that women should be full participants and that their involvement is especially important because of the nature of women's work. This article examines how JFM policy has addressed gender in India. It argues that policy has been informed by instrumentalist positions in the debate over women's relationship to the environment. Consequently, gender planning in JFM has focused on two issues: formal representation for women in local institutions, and identifying women's 'special' values, knowledge and uses of forest resources. The scant evidence suggests that the impact of JFM on women has generally been negative. Finally, the article suggests that gender policy in JFM needs to be based on a more sophisticated understanding of gender relations and a wider examination of the gendered context of JFM processes.
In: Progress in development studies, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 335-339
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In: Development in practice, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 274-286
ISSN: 1364-9213
In: Development in practice, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 274-286
ISSN: 0961-4524
In: Development in practice, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 274-286
ISSN: 0961-4524
In: Development and change, Band 42, Heft 5, S. 1131-1152
ISSN: 1467-7660
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 41-50
ISSN: 1099-162X
AbstractThis article reviews the way in which three very different international organisations concerned with reproductive health policy responded to the reproductive rights agenda during the 1990s. The intention is not to evaluate these responses but to describe how these organisations saw their roles with respect to establishing and promoting reproductive rights in developing countries. We seek to explore their different strategies of defining and interpreting rights, to examine the imperatives behind these strategies and to consider how these variously fed into the practical actions and agendas with which these organisations were engaged. The organisations included were the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, the International Federation of Family Planning Associations and the UK's Department for International Development. Their diverse understandings about implementing reproductive rights contribute to a plural political environment in which these rights and their interpretation are debated. For all the three, their particular conception of reproductive rights is an important organising principle through which their efforts around reproductive health are given wider meaning. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.