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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Legal Regulation of Marital Relations: An Historical and Comparative Approach

  2005

  How has the legal regulation of marriage evolved to include gender equality over time? Legal codes, case studies and 40 reports to the Commission to Eliminate Discrimination against Women were analysed to address this question. Marriage codes, be they western, Islamic or Chinese, traditionally obliged the wife to obey the husband by Divine law.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.
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  Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

  Feminist Review, 1997

  This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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  Women, citizenship and difference

  Feminist Review, 1997

  In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.
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  African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

  Men have tended to be overlooked, taken for granted, or treated as a unified, homogeneous category in much of the existing literature on gender in Africa. This book is made up of an interdisciplinary collection of essays which seek to deepen understanding of how African masculinities are formed in specific historical, cultural and social contexts.
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  Masculinities

  Polity Press, 2005

  This book, published ten years since the first edition of Masculinities, argues that there is not one masculinity, but multiple diverse forms of masculinities which are historically variable. Whilst the original text remains unchanged, a new introduction and conclusion documents the diversification and growth of research on masculinity since the book's initial publication.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.

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