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Abstracts for
August 30 , 2003
Feminist Scholarship and Society.....
Feminism, Activism and Society
Gender, History Education .....
Gender and Schooling:
Implications .....
The Male Marginalisation
thesis revisited.....
Challenging Gender Privileging:.....
Fatherhood in Risk Environments....

Men and Women in Love:
A changing Conjugality...

Caribbean Masculinities and Femininities:.....

Gender Politics and Media Production
Masculinity, the Political Economy of the Body.....
"Mama, Is that You?": Erotic Disguise .....
Shake that 'Booty' in Jesus' Name.....
Gender Dimensions of Social Capital...
Gender, Equity and Livelihoods .....
Women and Work: Policy Implications.....
The Challenge of Gender and the labour market ....
The Environment: Prospects .....
Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine
Feminist Scholarship and Society

The Gender and Development (GAD) strategy adopted both in academia and among governments of the Caribbean has served to highlight the societal dimensions of gender and the consequential multi-faceted policy responses required to address gender issues. But the GAD strategy has also unintentionally contributed to a decline in policy attention to women’s issues as concern for the contrapuntal “male marginalisation” has emerged. This has led to a worsening of women’s situation in some Caribbean societies, though not necessarily to an improvement in men’s situation. Influenced by the international development agenda, feminist scholarship in the region has adopted the GAD approach in its teaching, research, advocacy and activism. It has succeeded in improving understanding of gender among governments and ngos; influencing some government policymaking; isolating the infrastructural requirements for successful gendered policymaking; and identifying newly emerging development challenges, which need to be addressed from a gender perspective. Among the latter are included the HIV/AIDS pandemic, human rights abuses, poverty, governance and leadership. The continued weakness of government institutional machinery, the need for gender sensitive policy reform and programme action and the limited development and use of measures to monitor government accountability represent the main contextual challenges. CGDS can, and must, provide leadership in both sets of challenges if the key ingredient, political will, is to be activated towards the attainment of gender justice and equality in the 21st century in this region.
 
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