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Saskia E. Wieringa, PhD joined the
Institute of Social Studies in 1981, to
run the first MA of the Women and Development Programme. Besides
lecturing
she co-ordinated the research programme on women's movements
and
organizations in five countries and one region (the Caribbean).
She has been
involved in setting up women's studies in various countries,
ao in the
Caribbean, Sudan, Yemen, Namibia and Bangladesh.
She is at present general co-ordinator of the Gender and Women's
Studies Institutes Network in Asia
(GWINA). Her present research focuses on women's empowerment
in the face of
HIV/AIDS in Indonesia. She has recently designed the African
Gender and
Development Index, for the Economic Commission for Africa.
She has published
widely, on gender policy, women's movements and sexuality.
Her latest books
are 'Female Desires; Women's Same Sex Practices Cross culturally
(1999, with
Evelyn Blackwood, the book received the Ruth Benedict Award)
and Sexual
Politics in Indonesia (2001).
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