This book begins by identifying a global problematique, a coin- cidence of four sustained factors: war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistence of poverty; the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three main United Nations reports of the 1980s, those of the Brandt, Palme and…
In 1975, International Women's Year, a world conference was held in Mexico City. This conference launched the UN Decade for Women, which was marked at its mid point and conclusion by world conferences in Copenhagen and Nairobi respectively. In September 1995, China will host a Fourth World Conference on Women. These UN world conferences have been important catalysts and rallying cries in the st…
In the discourse on information and communications technologies (ICTs), the focus has been on the, sometimes negative, relocation of jobs from the developed world. This book focuses, instead, on the positive aspects of the introduction of ICTs and shows how they can empower women and make a difference in today′s uneven development process. It illustrates, with case studies from Argentina, Mor…
This book provides unexpected enlightenment on Ghadafi and Libyan society. Libya, going through total change, forms part of the debates in the world of today, particularly those in the Mediterranean world. With the abolition of the patriarchate, the move from tradition to modernity, the emergence of new social models, the conflicts of roles between the sexes, the society shaped by Ghadafi throu…
This book explores women's mobility in particular geographical, social, and cultural contexts. I am captivated by women's travel as a way of opening a space of inquiry about Eastern Indonesia's spatial relations. Examining practices of travel provides insights into contemporary social and cultural processes (Clifford 1997; Kaplan 1996; Tsing 2000). This book emphasizes how travel situates Easte…
Gerakan perempuan dalam kurun lima tahun terakhir telah memberikan dinamika yang menempatkan perempuan dalam suatu keberadaan yang berbeda dengan masa sebelumnya, terutama dalam pemberdayaan perempuan di bidang politik. Buku ini adalah bacaan penting bagi kalangan partai politik, anggota parlemen, LSM, mahasiswa, dan masyarakat luas. Banyak buku mengenai politik ditulis, tetapi langka yang memb…
Transisi dari kekuasaan oritarian menuju demokrasi adalah tren yang paling penting pada dekade di dalam sejarah politik Amerika Latin. Buku ini adalah mengenai sejarah politik perempuan di Amerika Latin, lalu membahas asal-muasal rejim oritarian birokratis di bagian selatan dan sejarah gerakan perempuan di wilayah tersebut. Buku ini membahas asal-muasal rejim oritarian birokratis di bagian sela…
With the whole world embroiled in war, a conference was held at the White House, in January 1940, and a report 'Children in a Democracy' subsequently published. Shortly after, a child psychologist, Despert (1942), reviewing the proceedings, reported that she found the study to be 'disappointing' in so far as psychological considerations were concerned, with only one short chapter, 'The Child in…
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyew…
In 1951 Otto Christian Dahl demonstrated the close affinity of Malagasy to the Ma'anyan language in SE Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo). Thus the ancestors of the Malagasy must have migrated from Kalimantan to Madagascar. In the present book Dahl substantiates, from linguistic, cultural and historical evidence, why, how and when this migration took place. The actual time of the migrat…