Societies in Transition — Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Heike Fleßner, Lydia Potts

      Pages 9-12

3. Focus: Global Perspectives

   1. Co-option or Transformation? Women’s and Gender Studies Worldwide

      • Gabriele Griffin

      Pages 13-31

   2. From Feminist Studies to Gender Studies: Challenges to Gender Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

      • Victoria Grace

      Pages 33-42

4. Focus: Europe (I) — Germany

   1. Women’s and Gender Studies in German Higher Education

      • Silke Wenk

      Pages 43-49

   2. Women’s and Gender Studies in Germany — Strategies for Internationalization

      • Sigrid Metz-Göckel

      Pages 51-59

5. Focus: Europe (II) — Eastern Europe

   1. Women’s and Gender Studies in a Global-Local Perspective: Developing the Frame

      • Susan Zimmermann

      Pages 61-77

   2. Gender Studies in Warsaw

      • Bożena Choluj

      Pages 79-82

6. Focus: Europe (III) — European Union and Nongovernmental Organizations

   1. Gender and Power — The European Union as a Masculine Project of Supranational Government

      • Susanne Schunter-Kleemann

      Pages 83-98

   2. Strategies and Demands of Women’s NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe in the Beijing +5 and the European Union Enlargement Process

      • Kinga Lohmann

      Pages 99-106

7. Focus: Middle East — Yemen, Jordan and Turkey

   1. The Transition in the Situation of Women in Yemen

      • Rashida A. Al-Hamdani

      Pages 107-117

   2. New Perspectives and Challenges for Women’s Studies at Aden University, Yemen

      • Rokhsana M. Ismail

      Pages 119-127

   3. Women’s Status in Jordan — Progress and Setbacks

      • Josi Salem-Pickartz

      Pages 129-140

   4. The Women’s Studies Program at the University of Jordan: Current Status and Prospects for the Future

      • Yasmin Haddad

      Pages 141-146

   5. Turkish Women’s Studies: The METU Gender and Women’s Studies Graduate Program Experience

      • Gamze Ege

      Pages 147-158

8. India and Nepal

   1. Gender Issues in Haryana and at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, India

      • Savita Singal

      Pages 159-168

   2. Women’s Studies at Padmakanya Multiple Campus Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

      • Puspa Ghimire-Niraula

      Pages 169-179

   3. Strategies of Women’s Empowerment: Women’s Micro Enterprises in Nepal

      • Ira Acharya

      Pages 181-192

9. Focus: Republic of South Africa

   1. The Dilemmas of Gender Mainstreaming for Gender Studies in South Africa

      • Sheila Meintjes

      Pages 193-206

   2. Does the Policy and Legislative Framework Address the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Women at Work and Girl Learners at Public Schools in South Africa?

      • Samiera Zafar

      Pages 207-217

Currently, women' sand gen der studies programs exist in many countries around the world. It is a crucial task for the future of this still emerging disci­ pline to enhance international communication and cooperation between study programs, students, scholars, activists, and professionals. If we consider the ideals and concepts of "emancipation" and "participation" as core principles of women' sand gen der studies, then our global networking requires system­ atic inclusion of non-western perspectives at all levels of research, teaching, and curriculum development. The international conference "Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies," held at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, from June 28 through July 1,2001, was intended as a step in this direction, bringing together speakers - all represented in this book - from a variety of countries: Poland and Hungary, Great Britain and New Zealand, India and Nepal, South Africa, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen. Although this list might at first appear arbitrary, its composition was both carefully and intentionally constructed. As organizers, we knew that a com­ paratively sm all conference could not entertain a fully inclusive representa­ tion of women's and gender studies programs worldwide.

• AIDS
• ETA
• European Union (EU)
• IRA
• Nation
• development
• education
• gender
• gender Mainstreaming
• gender Studies
• organization
• transformation

Heike Fleßner, Ph.D., professor of Social Pedagogy at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany and teaches Social Pedagogy and Women's Gender Studies; Lydia Potts, Ph.D, teaches Political Science, Intercultural Education and Women's and Gender Studies at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany.

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