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  Report of the Learning Oriented Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Empowerment Strategies in Rwanda

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  How can women be empowered in post-conflict reconstruction? How can coordination between different actors be improved to better achieve this goal? This report on the situation in Rwanda looks at the work of donors, government and non-governmental partners, based on an assessment that took place over a 10-day period in September 2002.
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  With the People, For the People: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Bangladesh (The People's Health Centre)

  One World Action, 2003

  At a time when the benefits of development policies often only reach small, urban elites, how can development organisations better help with the problems faced by excluded and vulnerable populations such as women and children? This report outlines the work of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or The People's Health Centre, in Bangladesh.
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  'Of Other Spaces' Situating Participatory Practices: A Case Study from South India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  SPEECH is an NGO working in Tamil Nadu (Southern India). This NGO has generated changes in cultures of gender, with some women taking the lead in SPEECH supported activities, in spite of opposition from other members of the community.
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  The Global-local Intersection of Feminism in Muslim Societies: The Cases of Iran and Azerbaijan

  The New School, 2002

  What is the impact of the present era of Globalisation on women's movements and status in the Moslem countries of Iran and Azerbaijan? Has this impact been negative or positive and if so in what way?
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  Fundamental Misunderstandings: Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamism

  John Hopkins University Press, 1998

  How should we understand Islamism? Why does Islamism put so much energy into controlling women? Focusing on France and Algeria, the article identifies Islamism's similarities with Western and Christian extreme right movements, explores the ways it justifies itself, and examines its relations with women and with Islam as a whole.
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  Muslim Women and Nationalism: the Power of the Image

  SAGE Publications, 2000

  Women and the family are considered the cornerstone of Muslim society. They are often seen as cultural symbols of the nation, charged with the responsibility of upholding its honour and dignity.
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  Feminist Theology and Religious Diversity

  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2000

  Part of a symposium on feminist theology and religious diversity. In response to Rita M. Gross' contribution to this symposium, the writer shares Gross's concerns over the issue of 'diversity' in the context of feminist theology but challenges the terms of Gross's rhetoric.
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  Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India

  University of Toronto Press, 2001

  Whereas the Constitution of India guarantees equality rights to all women, irrespective of religious affiliation, Muslim personal law, as applied in the India context, explicitly discriminates on the basis of an individual's sex and religion. Narain begins with an analysis of the historical development and contemporary expression of Muslim personal law within the Indian constitutional framework.
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  The Politics of Feminism in Islam

  University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2002

  How can the emancipation of the masses, particularly women, be achieved in the Islamic world? This article rejects the idea that the Western secular, capitalist model and Western versions of human rights and democracy offer Islamic countries a desirable path to emancipation.
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  Islamic Feminism: Perils and Promises

  Association For Middle East Women’s Studies, USA, 2002

  What are the links between Islam, feminism and modernity? In the Middle East, the changes in socialisation and political awareness of women themselves have not been accompanied by a change in gender roles, family structures and the law. This paper comes from the perspective that women are not only affected by change but are themselves its agents.

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