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The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women’s movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women’s political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists’ engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women’s organizations. She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization. Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association “An exceptional study, based on extensive research. . . . Highly recommended.”— Choice “A rich history of women’s organizations in South African . . . . [Hassim] had observed at first hand, and often participated in, much of what she described. She had access to the informants and private archives that so enliven the narrative and enrich the analysis. She provides a finely balanced assessment.”—Gretchen Bauer, African Studies Review

In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants to bring theory to life and to generate new understandings of whiteness and development work. Heron reveals how the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered, and she exposes the moral core of this self and its seemingly paradoxical necessity to the Other. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the NorthSouth binary, in which Canada's national narrative situates us as the \"good guys\" of the world.

In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.

Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world -- and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read. -- Gloria Steinem Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity. -- Fatema Mernissi In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development. Jain presents this history from the perspective of the southern hemisphere, which recognizes that development issues often look different when viewed from the standpoint of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The book highlights the contributions of the four global women's conferences in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing in raising awareness, building confidence, spreading ideas, and creating alliances. The history that Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of committed networks of women in partnership with the UN and the urgent work remaining to bring equality and justice to the world and its women.

Dans cet ouvrage, il est question non pas des hommes qui partent, mais des femmes qui restent. S’appuyant sur la richesse des paroles de femmes qui ont vécu cette situation, l’auteure souhaite exposer les multiples déclinaisons des expériences féminines de l’absence maritale et ainsi mettre en lumière l’histoire de ces femmes jusqu’ici occultée. Fortes d’une autonomie qu’elles affermirent et affirmèrent, alors qu’elles devaient savoir se débrouiller seules, et soutenues par des réseaux de sociabilité très forts, où la famille occupait une place prépondérante, les femmes s’enracinèrent dans ce territoire de solitude, mais aussi de solidarité.

Aux périodes archaïques et classiques, les femmes grecques pourvoyaient des soins aux moments les plus importants de la vie, comme la naissance et la mort : pourtant ce n’est pas ce care qu’a mis en avant l’historiographie de la médecine, mais bien le cure masculin des médecins hippocratiques. À rebours, cet article met en avant ce care féminin. Fondée sur les documents textuels, épigraphiques et iconographiques, l’étude aborde la figure d’Hécamède, femme pourvoyeuse de soins efficaces mais non techniques aux guerriers de l’ Iliade d’Homère. La deuxième partie analyse le travail de care invisible et dévalué des femmes libres et esclaves au sein de l’ oikos. Le soin des malades, des enfants et des vieilles personnes y échoit aux femmes adultes. Une troisième partie s’intéresse aux soignantes aux fortes compétences techniques parfois rémunérées, à mi-chemin entre care et cure  : sages-femmes et femmes médecins de la période classique, jamais très éloignées du care puisque spécialisées dans les soins d’entretien de la vie : accouchement, soin des enfants et des femmes. In archaic and classical times, Greek women were present as caregivers at the most important moments of life, such as birth and death. Yet this care has not been emphasized in medical historiography, rather what emerges is the male cure provided by Hippocratic doctors. This article highlights on the contrary the care women provided to others. Based on textual, epigraphic and iconographic documents, the study examines the figure of Hecamede, a woman who provided effective but non-technical care to the warriors of Homer’s Iliad . The second part analyzes the invisible and devalued care work of free and slave women within the oikos . Care of the sick, children and old people was the task of adult women. A third part focuses on caregivers with developed and occasionally remunerated technical skills, halfway between care and cure : midwives and female physicians of the classical period. Their activities were never far from care, given their specialization in the maintenance of life: childbirth, and providing for the welfare of women and children.

Cadre de recherche : Un des principes fondamentaux de l’approche sensible au genre est l’importance accordée aux relations. Selon la théorie relationnelle culturelle, les femmes, contrairement aux hommes, acquièrent leur identité et leur estime de soi surtout à travers leurs relations avec les autres. Les écrits scientifiques montrent que les relations que les femmes judiciarisées entretiennent avec leurs proches sont souvent caractérisées par de la violence et par différents traumatismes, en plus d’être fréquemment compliquées par la consommation de substances psychoactives.Objectifs : Cette étude s’intéresse à la façon dont les femmes judiciarisées parlent de leurs relations conjugales ou amoureuses, à un moment crucial de leur trajectoire, soit au moment où elles contemplent leurs démarches de (ré)intégration sociale. La recherche vise aussi à explorer comment ces relations ont pu influencer leurs trajectoires, et ce, afin de mieux appréhender leur rôle potentiel dans leur avenir.Méthodologie : À partir d’un corpus d’entretiens qualitatifs, menés auprès de 25 femmes, une analyse thématique a été réalisée.Résultats : Les résultats ont permis de révéler deux trames relationnelles : une marquée par la violence et la domination, et une autre par l’amour et l’utilitarisme. L’importance de la maternité hâtive dans les relations avec les conjoints a également été soulignée dans nos résultats. Conclusions : Ces résultats mettent en lumière l’importance de favoriser et d’encourager le développement de relations saines pour les femmes en processus de réintégration sociale, et ce, dans l’ensemble des relations qu’elles entretiennent. Contributions : Nos résultats ont permis de donner une voix à ces femmes sur leurs dynamiques relationnelles, souvent nommées par les intervenants du terrain, mais rarement étudié dans les écrits scientifiques.

Un nombre considérable de secteurs évangéliques constituent ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler aujourd’hui la « nouvelle droite brésilienne » ou la « droite radicale ». Or, depuis une vingtaine d’années, Damares Alves, ministre des Femmes, de la Famille et des Droits de l’Homme de l’actuel gouvernement de Jair Bolsonaro, occupe une place privilégiée dans le Congrès national dans le contrôle de politiques publiques. Trois conférences d’Alves seront examinées dans le présent article consacré à l’analyse des ses stratégies performatives, à savoir, les formes d’expression de soi, leurs moyens et les revendications, ainsi que les valeurs e symboles liés à celles-ci.