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Abstracts for
August 31 , 2003
Women and Development Studies....
Shifting Centres and Moving Margins.....
Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary ......
Constructing Feminist Knowledge....
Gender, Information Technology......
Shifting, Dismantling, Erecting ......
A Different Imagination
Documentary Film
Reflections in the Looking Glass...
"Not without meh man"
Mirror Mirror: A feminist examination.....
Ambivalent aspirations: Assertion .....
Gender and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: ....
Governance, Leadership
& Decision Making.....

Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Experience.....
When the Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes.....
Feminisms, Gender Studies, Activism....
Women and Development studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.
 

This paper will analyse the development of the Women and Development programme at the ISS, since 1981, when the first MA programme was offered, until 2002, when the programme was drastically changed. The programme was a unique combination of feminist studies and development studies, offered to an international student body, and taught by a multicultural staff. The programme also implemented a number of projects to institutionalize women’s studies at various universities in the South, particularly the UWI, Sudan, Namibia and Bangladesh. Its research focussed on women’s movements, gendered labour relations, migration and trafficking in women. The programme combined an emphasis on feminist theories including epistemology, with gender policy and empirical research. The paper will analyse the academic context in which it functioned, its relations with the wider women’s movement, its internal politics and the factors that led to its eventual demise.

 

 
 
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