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SERIES: Working in Gender & Development

EDITED BY: Geraldine Terry Joanna Hoare 

DATE: 30 September 2007

SERIES: Working in Gender & Development

DESCRIPTION

This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle gender-based violence in various sectors, world regions, and socio-political contexts. Articles cover a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including femicide, or the murder of women because they are women, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, the sexual exploitation of girls at school, and trafficking for prostitution.

The case studies are drawn from South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America, and a detailed list of resources completes the volume. This collection of articles will be useful to development and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers, and academics, including both gender specialists and non-gender specialists alike.

Working in Gender & Development series bring together themed selections of the best articles from the Oxfam journal Gender & Development, supplemented with specially commissioned articles and material drawn from other Oxfam publications. Each title will be edited by a key thinker in the field, and will include an up-to-the- minute overview of current thinking and thoughts on future policy responses.

AUTHOR BIOG

Geraldine Terry is a social development consultant specialising in gender issues. She has worked for Oxfam, and various other non-governmental organisations, and currently works on development aid projects funded by thee British government's Department For International Development and the European Union. She has a wide experience of working with women in developing countries.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1: Tackling violence against women: a worldwide approach Ceri Hayes

2: Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security Kaori Izumi

3: No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America Marina Prieto-Carrón, Marilyn Thomson, and Mandy Macdonald

4: Sexual violence during firewood collection: income-generation as protection in displaced settings Sarah K. Chynoweth with Erin M. Patrick

5: Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages Rebecca Surtees

6: Social policy from the bottom up: abandoning FGC in sub-Saharan Africa Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, and Rebecca Miles

7: Constructing an alternative masculine identity: the experience of the Centro Bartolomé de las Casas and Oxfam America in El Salvador Susan Bird, Rutilio Delgado, Larry Madrigal, John Bayron Ochoa, and Walberto Tejeda

8: ‘We Can’: transforming power in relationships in South Asia Mona Mehta and Chitra Gopalakrishnan

9: Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward Fiona Leach and Sara Humphreys

10: Gender-based violence in and around schools in conflict and humanitarian contexts Jackie Kirk

11: Reducing poverty and upholding human rights: a pragmatic approach Meena Poudel and Ines Smyth

12: A tale of two cities: shifting the paradigm of anti-trafficking programmes Smarajit Jana, Nandinee Bandyopadhyay, Mrinal Kanti Dutta, and Amitrajit Saha