[Gesth-l] FW: Current History: Women in the World

[Borgos Anna]

>From: ruth baldacchino <ruthbaldacchino at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: youngwomenfromminorities at yahoogroups.com
>To: ruth baldacchino <ruthbaldacchino at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [youngwomenfromminorities] TOC: Current History: Women in the 
>World
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:35:50 +0100
>
>       Journal Name: Current History
>       Volume 105, Number 689/March 2006
>
>Title: Feminists and Fundamentalists
>Author: Kavita Ramdas
>"Reassertions of an idealized past and a restored 'women's place' are
>occurring, from Kabul to Cambridge, at a time when the international
>community has concurred that women's rights are a global good."
>
>
>Title: Is Globalization Our Friend? Women's Allies in the Developing World
>Author: Nandini Deo
>"Reforms most closely tied to the globalization of economies, considered
>separately from domestic neoliberal policies, clearly benefit the most
>vulnerable women in developing countries."
>
>
>Title: Does Lower Fertility Threaten Feminism?
>Author: Leonard Schoppa
>"The ability to opt out of-or at least to postpone well into their 30s-the
>challenge of working while still having children means few young women 
>today
>are motivated to demand changes in social policy or even to demand that men
>do more housework."
>
>
>Title: Digital Scheherazades in the Arab World
>Author: Fatema Mernissi
>The Arab Gulf's previously all-male ruling elite is investing in female
>brains as the winning card for information-fueled power.
>
>
>Title: Educating Girls, Unlocking Development
>Author: Ruth Levine
>"Compelling evidence, accumulated over the past 20 years . . . , has led to
>an almost universal recognition of the importance of focusing on girls'
>education as part of broader development policy."
>
>
>Title: Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
>Author: Elzbieta Matynia
>"It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central
>elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions
>concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and 
>pluralism."
>
>
>Title: From Victims to Saviors? Women, Power, and Corruption
>Author: Hung-En Sung
>"Increased female participation in public life is a good and just end, but
>it does not in itself offer an effective means to achieve clean 
>government."
>
>
>Title: The Month in Review
>An international chronology of events in January 2006, country by country,
>day by day.
>
>Title: Women in Parliaments
>A map of women in parliaments

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