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Gender Issues In Hiv/Aids Epidemiology In Sub-Saharan Africa., Ben E. Wodi Jun 2005

Gender Issues In Hiv/Aids Epidemiology In Sub-Saharan Africa., Ben E. Wodi

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

"The patriarchal nature of African societies continues to shape women’s sexual behavior in the region. This in turn accounts for the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among women in sub-Saharan Africa. Of the several factors implicated in the unequal prevalence of the disease among women in Africa, economic dependency/feminization of poverty, unequal distribution of sexual power (sexual violence and coercion), limited educational opportunities and lack of political will continue to dominate the literature (Robinson, 2004; Dunkle, et al., 2004; Martin and Curtis, 2004; Eaton, et al., 2003; Mill and Anarfi, 2002). While programmatic and financial initiatives have increased significantly in the …


Transnational Health Promotion: Social Well-Being Across Borders And Immigrant Women's Subjectivities., Denise Gastaldo, Amoaba Gooden, Notisha Massaquoi Jun 2005

Transnational Health Promotion: Social Well-Being Across Borders And Immigrant Women's Subjectivities., Denise Gastaldo, Amoaba Gooden, Notisha Massaquoi

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In this article, the authors use two qualitative studies to address transnationalism in the intersection of migration, gender and health promotion studies. The experiences of women who have recently (less than 3 years ago) immigrated to Canada are examined focusing on their transnational health promotion activities. Despite the invisibility of women’s unpaid work in transnational and migration studies, we argue that the well-being of families, communities and nations is currently being produced in local, national, and international networks of health promotion and care giving and by the wealth generated by women’s labour. Our contribution is to bring together gendered health …


Unsettling Experiences: Transnational Dialogues Of Necessity In Journal, Nationalité: Immigré(E) And Paletitas De Guayaba, Tim Gerhard Jun 2005

Unsettling Experiences: Transnational Dialogues Of Necessity In Journal, Nationalité: Immigré(E) And Paletitas De Guayaba, Tim Gerhard

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In this paper, I examine the transnational stories of two women --one born in France of Algerian descent and the other born in the United States of Mexican descent-- whose lives are interrupted by the inability to understand their status as ethnic women in the country of their birth. By analyzing their works in the proper socio-historical context and by defining how they fit into a relatively new mode of expression --the autoethnography-- I establish a transnational dialogue between the works of these two women. Transnational stories such as these challenge the superiority of the transnational identities established by the …


Getting Connected? The Politics Of Mobilizing A Transnational Feminist Response To The War On Terror, Krista Hunt Jun 2005

Getting Connected? The Politics Of Mobilizing A Transnational Feminist Response To The War On Terror, Krista Hunt

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper examines the essential role that the Internet has played in mobilizing a transnational feminist response to the war on terror. The use of the Internet by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and feminists opposed to the war on terror exemplify the power of this technology to give voice to women who have in many different ways been silenced off-line. This timely case study illustrates how crucial the Internet can be to gain international attention regarding human rights abuses, to solicit transnational support, and to provide an international forum for those who are politically disenfranchised. …


Review: The Global Political Economy Of Sex, Silvia Federici Jun 2005

Review: The Global Political Economy Of Sex, Silvia Federici

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


Women In A Global Environment, Kassim Kone Jun 2005

Women In A Global Environment, Kassim Kone

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


Naccs 32nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2005

Naccs 32nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Visión: Articulating, Imagining, and Contextualizing Chicana/o Spaces
April 13-17
Hyatt Regency


En-Gendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women And The Politics Of Urban Space., Epifania Adoo-Adare Apr 2004

En-Gendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women And The Politics Of Urban Space., Epifania Adoo-Adare

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The power of spatial configurations in our everyday social practices and ideological constructions of place and identity cannot be denied. As an architect and an Asante woman who has always lived in African and diasporic cities, I am particularly interested in how Black women’s socioeconomic lives have been constituted, situated, and enacted in western urban spatiality. I believe that Black women the world over are disproportionately represented in unsuitable and inadequate urban spaces and are also underrepresented in urban development decision-making processes. Also, as a Black female architect intent on imagining and constructing radical architectural counter-narratives within hegemonic spatial politics, …


Reviews: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity And Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Mechthild Nagel Apr 2004

Reviews: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity And Race, Ethnicity, And Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers, Mechthild Nagel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


A Requiem For Voicelessness: Pakistanis And Muslims In The Us., Asma Barlas Apr 2004

A Requiem For Voicelessness: Pakistanis And Muslims In The Us., Asma Barlas

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In this essay, I discuss the attack on the civil liberties of Muslims, some challenges I face as a Muslim-Pakistani-American in the present political milieu, and the psychology of racism. This was delivered as a 15-minute talk and is in the nature of some reflections and not a systematic analysis.


When Male Becomes Female And Female Becomes Male In Mande., Kassim Kone Apr 2004

When Male Becomes Female And Female Becomes Male In Mande., Kassim Kone

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper argues that an ideology of masculinity among the Bamana is based on the belief of supremacy of the male biological heritage over the female heritage in procreation. The statuses and roles of Bamana men and women remain culturally and contextually fluid however. Father to his own children, a man is also the male mother to his sister’s child. On the opposite, the paternal aunt is the female father to her brother’s child. A clear picture of the gender relations requires an understanding of women’s roles and their power and authority in their families of orientation. Similarly, male domination …


Review: Gender, Development, And Globalization, Jennifer L. Mendel Apr 2004

Review: Gender, Development, And Globalization, Jennifer L. Mendel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


From The Editor, Mechthild Nagel Apr 2004

From The Editor, Mechthild Nagel

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


Invited And Invented Spaces Of Participation: Neoliberal Citizenship And Feminists' Expanded Notion Of Politics., Faranak Miraftab Apr 2004

Invited And Invented Spaces Of Participation: Neoliberal Citizenship And Feminists' Expanded Notion Of Politics., Faranak Miraftab

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This short conceptual piece calls for a careful rethinking of what feminist scholars have articulated as an expanded notion of politics: the notion that rejects the binary constructs of formal/informal, and demonstrates the significance of community-based activism as an informal arena of politics and citizenship construction. Introducing the interacting and mutually constitutive concepts of “invited” and “invented” spaces of citizenship, this essay urges recognition of the full range of spaces within the informal arena where citizenship is practiced. It warns of the risk arising from the literature’s limited focus on strategies of survival: namely, the likelihood of a bifurcated conceptualization …


Djotaayi Dieguenye: The Gathering Of Women In Mariama Ba's Fictional World., Siga Fatima Jagne Apr 2004

Djotaayi Dieguenye: The Gathering Of Women In Mariama Ba's Fictional World., Siga Fatima Jagne

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Mariama Bâ's fiction is situated in the tradition of the speakerly text—the oral tradition of the Senegalese griot women. This paper focuses on Bâ’s nuanced analysis of caste, friendship, fate, and women's relations. Bâ is critical of archaic and misogynist traditional practices and in her writing she expresses a hope for a positive construction of the Wolof world view.


Arms Control, Mary Kennan Herbert Apr 2004

Arms Control, Mary Kennan Herbert

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


Review: The Socialist Feminist Project, Kathryn Russell Apr 2004

Review: The Socialist Feminist Project, Kathryn Russell

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.


Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2004

Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

El Pueblo Unido…:Strength in Unity
March 31-April 4, 2004
The University of New Mexico


What’S In A Name?: Seeing Feminism, Universalism, And Modernity, Zillah Ruth Eisenstein Jan 2004

What’S In A Name?: Seeing Feminism, Universalism, And Modernity, Zillah Ruth Eisenstein

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Women’s rights activists have claimed–and disowned–the label “feminist.” This article revisits old questions in feminist discourse and probes what feminism(s) mean today for women across the globe. It explores the possibility of a polyversal feminism which expresses women’s potential humanity and moves beyond divisions. The plural acts of resistance to Empire are neither western or non-western. Women activists are encouraged to radically pluralize, rather than liberally pluralize the concept of feminism.


Naccs 30th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Apr 2003

Naccs 30th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

No More Wars: Sovereignties, Sexualities, and Human Rights
April 2-6, 2003
Millennium Biltmore Hotel


Naccs 29th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2002

Naccs 29th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

The Multiple Faces of Chicanas
March 27-30, 2002
Hyatt Regency at McCormick Place


Naccs 28th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Apr 2001

Naccs 28th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

I-uan g ceksan, Tuchá Aria Wa Frontierapo, Borrando Fronteras, Erasing Borders: La Educación, Salud, Inmigración e Historia del Pueblo
April 4-8, 2001
Marriot Hotel


Naccs 27th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2000

Naccs 27th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Sabiduría, Lucha, y Liberación: Youth, Community & Culture en el Nuevo Sol
March 22-25, 2000
Downtown Hilton


Naccs 26th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Apr 1999

Naccs 26th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Missionary Positions: Post-Colonialism to Pre-Sexto Sol
April 28-May 1, 1999
Radisson Hotel


Naccs 25th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Jun 1998

Naccs 25th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México
June 24-27, 1998
Hilton Mexico City Reforma


Naccs 24th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Apr 1997

Naccs 24th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Chicana y Chicano Scholarship: Un Compromiso Con Nuestras Comunidades
April 16-19, 1997
Radisson Hotel


Nacs 22nd Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 1995

Nacs 22nd Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Expanding RAZA World Views: Sexuality and Regionalism
March 29-April 1, 1995
Northern Aztlan


Nacs 21th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 1993

Nacs 21th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Redefining Chicano and Chicana Studies
March 24-27, 1993
Fairmont-Club Regent


Nacs 20th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 1992

Nacs 20th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Twenty Years of NACS Scholarship: 500 Years of Struggle and Change
March 25-28, 1992
University of Texas at San Antonio


Nacs 19th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Apr 1991

Nacs 19th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Los Dos Méxicos
The University of Arizona
April 24-27, 1991