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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).
Abstract:
Women
and Development studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The
Hague.
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