Saskia E. Wieringa, PhD, joined the Institute of Social Studies in
The Hague in 1981, to run the first MA of the Women and Development
Programme. Besides lecturing, she coordinated the research programme
on Women's Movements and Organisations in five countries and one region
(the Caribbean). She has been involved in setting up Women's Studies
in various countries, for example, in the Caribbean, Sudan, Yemen,
Namibia and Bangladesh. She is at present General Coordinator of the
Gender and Women's Studies Institutes Network in Asia (GWINA), co-coordinator
of Kartini, Asia-European Network of Women's Studies, and the President
of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture
and Society (IASSCS). 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 (with Evelyn Blackwood), Female
Desires; Women's Same Sex Practices Cross-culturally (1999), which
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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