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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 33–43.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... , 1986 , Gender and Class Consciousness - Women workers in Free Trade Zone (Sri Lanka) , Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Rosa , K. , 1987 , “Women workers organizing,” in Miranda Davis (ed.), Third World Second Sex , Zed Press, London. Rosa , K. , 1987 , “ Women workers...
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in Between Publics and Privates: The Regeneration of Sahrawi Female Militancy
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Published: 01 May 2020
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Elizabeth Banks Abstract This article examines negotiations on aid, scholarship provision, and a hoped-for visit by former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, that took place between the Committee for Soviet Women (KSZh) and the Organization for Mozambican Women (OMM) as a lens into Soviet-African...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 631–643.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Jean H. Quataert This article pieces together a complex genealogy of the multiple contexts that helped reshape women’s international organizing and create a global women’s human rights movement following the United Nations (UN) Decade for Women, 1975–85. It maps a multilayered history consisting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of the
social fabric, others blame the phenomenon of NGOs for its role in transforming the women’s
movement from grassroots-based organization into professional bureaucratic structures in-
capable of driving political and social change.2 Yet...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 588–604.
Published: 01 December 2015
... women Islamism This essay was translated by Gibran Translation Services from a paper in Arabic that I presented in a workshop organized by the Columbia Global Center Middle East in Amman. The workshop, held on May 3–4, 2014, was titled “Debating the ‘Woman Question’ in the New Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 150–165.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Figure 1. The National Organization of Sahrawi Women. Photograph by the author, 2011. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 220–223.
Published: 01 August 2010
...” and “imperialism.” The articles in this special section, as well as the literature cited in this introduction, warn us that, in spite of the proliferation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the conditions of women's lives are deteriorating and levels and forms of exploitation are on the rise. Women, whether...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 101–109.
Published: 01 August 1991
... of consensus among the ruling groups
that process. Both organizations represent women’s regarding emancipation and uplift of women (excluding
dissent with what were Seen as deliberate steps to curtail the religious obscurantist quarters), by post-July 1977 it
political freedoms and women’s rights...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 280–281.
Published: 01 May 2004
... domination if women’s associations really serve the needs of all
women. Through these organizations, the authors argue, marginalized and neglected women
can achieve empowerment, unity of purpose, and ultimately attain political power in their
communities. The collection raises important issues about...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 124–128.
Published: 01 August 1988
... and more than half are women. of Vietnam (CPV), was elected president of the VWU.
The VWU works to organize chapters of women in every Madam Ngo Ba Thanh, a political independent who led a
village in the countryside and in every district of the towns. third force opposition to the South Vietnamese...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 227–244.
Published: 01 May 2005
... is drawn between institution- political restrictions do not necessarily allow for
ally independent activism and activism through formal women’s organizations separate from
the state, and the former is lauded at the ex- the state. “The difficulty of discussing Third...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 May 1999
....) Bouatta , Cherifa 1995 . “Evolution of the Women's Movement in Contemporary Algeria: Organization, Objectives, and Prospects.” Helsinki: UNU/WIDER Working Paper No. 124 (February). Boxberger , Linda 1998 . “From Two States to One: Women's Lives in the Transformation of Yemen.” In Bodman...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 88–91.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of the Left and parties and continued to work in a single women's organization until
their lack of support for feminist organizations that are mat- 1971, when increasing problems between the two parties
ters for concern, especially since the 'democratic struggle' also resulted in a split...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 46–47.
Published: 01 August 1986
... and the (predominantly Sinhalese) Sri Lankan governmental women's organizations (cutting across ethnic
government forces culminated in the outbreak of nation-wide and economic lines), Women for Peace organized a very suc-
anti-Tamil violence in July 1983. In retaliation for the killing cessful Creative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 633–643.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., was composed of a num- Movement
in
single movement. ber of women’s organizations, individual actors
(men and women...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 30–37.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Shahnaz Rouse 1986 REFERENCES Abbasi , M.B. ( 1980 ). Socio-Economic Characteristics of Women in Sindh: Issues Affecting Women's Status . Karachi, Pakistan: Sindh Regional Plan Organization. Aguilar , Neuma ( 1983 ). “Research guidelines: How to study women's work in Latin...
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Refugees from Sudan and Somalia planning and designing a restaurant, building on a seed grant from the organization CARE. The restaurant was located at a neighborhood boundary in a block where Somali refugees lived, abutting a block where Sudanese refugees
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (1): 79–82.
Published: 01 May 1983
.... tunities is affecting the educated, urban,
111. The Government's Hadood (penal middle and upper-middle class women, and
laws within the limits prescribed by the women's organizations leading the
Shariah, i.e. laws derived from the Quran...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 76–78.
Published: 01 August 1989
... women’s organizations challenged the Hudood
Zia’s goal, however, was to “islamicize” Pakistan. Ordinances but this came to nothing when the Eighth
The impact of Zia’s islamicization policies on the social Amendment to the Constitution was passed.
and legal position of women has been enormous...
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