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    Islamic Feminism? What's in a Name? Preliminary Reflections

    Middle East Women's Studies Review, 2001
    How far is the term 'Islamic feminism' used by Muslim women themselves, and how far is it imposed by Western or non-Muslim scholars? Some Muslim women do identify as Islamic feminists. Others prefer such terms as 'Muslim scholar activist' although they adhere to both feminist and religious principles. Is this label taken on as a strategy to make feminism more acceptable to Muslims?
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    Forging a Representative Gay Liberation Movement in South Africa

    1998
    Under apartheid South Africa, the gay movement remained white, male dominated, and in some cases, deliberately distanced itself from the anti-apartheid struggle. With the end of apartheid in 1994, the National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE) was launched as a coalition of 41 lesbian and gay organisations.
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    What Use is Queer Theory to Development?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    Sexuality has only recently emerged as a development concern since it has been seen as an issue which can only be dealt with once 'basic' or material (ie economic) needs are satisfied.
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    In Unity There is Power, Processes of Participation and Empowerment

    2000
    This training module is a result of the work undertaken by the 'Toward Equity' project-World Conservation Union/Arias Foundation and is part of a series. It is intended to be used by specialists involved in training facilitation activities and focuses on the analysis of power as an inequality factor and on its implications in rural development initiatives.
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    Gender, Conservation, and Community Participation: the Case of the Ja£ National Park, Brazil

    Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999
    How do gender relations affect people's knowledge, use and control of and impact on natural resources? The Funda?Æo Vit¢ria Amaz?nica (FVA) is a local NGO which has carried out pioneer work on gender, community participation and partnership building in their conservation activities in the Ja£ National Park (PNJ).
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    Gendered Poverty and Social Change: An Issues Paper

    1998
    Why does gender appear in aid agency discussions of poverty in such generalised and problematic forms' In the process of assimilating gender into their policy discourse, development institutions have screened out the differentiated and highly contextualised understanding of poverty central to gender analysis.

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