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| Gender & Development |
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| Call No. | B17057 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender and cooperative conflicts |
| Author: | Sen, Amartya Kumar |
| Year of Publication: | 1987 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER RESEARCH//SOCIAL CONFLICT/ |
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| Call No. | B17107 / UNU |
| Title: | Justice, gender and international boundaries |
| Author: | O'Neill, Onora |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /JUSTICE//GENDER EQUALITY/ |
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| Call No. | B17007 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender, development, and policy : toward equity and empowerment |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER RESEARCH//DEVELOPMENT POLICY//WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B17010 / UNU |
| Title: | Privatization and democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : the |
| gender dimension |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER RESEARCH//EASTERN EUROPE//SOCIAL |
| CONDITIONS//CONGRESSES//EMPLOYMENT//WOMEN IN POLITICS//FEMINISM//SOCIAL |
| CONDITIONS//POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B17012 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender and the development process in a changing global environment : results of the |
| UNU-WIDER Research Programme on Women and Development |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER MAINSTREAMING//DEVELOPMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B23903 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender and national identity : women and politics in Muslim societies |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Zed Books / Oxford University Press |
| Remarks: | Published for the UNU-WIDER. |
| Keyword: | /GENDER//NATIONALISM//MUSLIMS//WOMEN//ALGERIA//BANGLADESH//AFGHANISTAN/ |
| /IRAN//PALESTINIANS/ | |
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| Call No. | B23904 / UNU |
| Title: | Identity politics and women : cultural reassertions and feminisms in international perspective |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Westview Press |
| Remarks: | The chapters in this book were prepared for the UNU-WIDER. |
| Keyword: | /FEMINISM//NATIONALISM//CULTURAL IDENTITY//ISLAM//HINDUS//ZIONISM/ |
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| Call No. | B17176 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender aspects of urban economic growth and development |
| Author: | Chant, Sylvia H. |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER//URBAN DEVELOPMENT//ECONOMIC GROWTH/ |
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| Call No. | B15587 / UNU |
| Title: | Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia |
| Author: | Dube, Leela |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Remarks: | The countries the author studies in detail are India, bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, |
| Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand which between them represent Hinduism, Islan, |
| Buddhism and Christianity. | |
| Keyword: | GENDER RESEARCH//KINSHIP//COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS//SOUTH ASIA//SOUTHEAST ASIA/ |
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| Call No. | B22052 / UNU |
| Title: | Group functioning and community forestry in South Asia : A gender analysis and conceptual |
| framework |
| Author: | Agarwal, Bina |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /FORESTRY WORKERS//SOUTH ASIA//GENDER/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/hq/library/Collection/PDF_files/WIDER/WIDERwp172.pdf |
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| Call No. | B23383 / UNU |
| Title: | Financing for development : proposals from business and civil society |
| Author: | Herman, Barry ed. / Pietracci, Federica ed. / Sharma, Krishnan ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Remarks: | The editors are part of the United Nations Secretariat team servicing the Financing for |
| Development Conference at the United Nations. |
| Keyword: | /DEVELOPMENT FINANCE//DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE//FOREIGN DIRECT |
| INVESTMENT//MICROCREDIT//BUSINESS//GENDER//CIVIL SOCIETY/ |
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| Call No. | B23902 / UNU |
| Title: | Why engendering PRSPs reduces poverty, and the case of Rwanda |
| Author: | Zuckerman, Elaine |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Remarks: | PRSPs: Poverty reduction strategy papers. |
| Keyword: | /GENDER//POVERTY MITIGATION//WOMEN IN |
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| Gender; Africa; Middle East |
| Call No. | B17655 / UNU |
| Title: | La femme et la loi en Algerie |
| Language: | French |
| Author: | Nouredine, Saadi |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | Editions le fennec / UNU-WIDER |
| Remarks: | UNU-WIDER study. Collection editor : Fatima Mernissi |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//LAW//ALGERIA/ |
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| Call No. | B17656 / UNU |
| Title: | La femme et la loi au Maroc |
| Language: | French |
| Author: | Moulay R'chid, Abderrazak |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | Editions le fennec |
| Remarks: | UNU-WIDER study. Collection editor: Fatima Mernissi |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//LAW//MOROCCO/ |
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| Call No. | B17657 / UNU |
| Title: | La femme et la loi en tunisie |
| Language: | French |
| Author: | Chamari, Alya Cherif |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | Editions le fennec / UNU-WIDER |
| Remarks: | UNU-WIDER study. Collection editor: Fatima Mernissi |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//LAW//TUNISIA/ |
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| Call No. | B17658 / UNU |
| Title: | Al maruat, Attaharrour, Alibdaa |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Author: | Said, Khalida |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | Editions le fennec |
| Remarks: | UNU-WIDER study. Collection editor: Fatima Mernissi |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//DEMOCRACY//NORTH AFRICA/ |
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| Call No. | B17659 / UNU |
| Title: | Etudes feminines : repertoire & bibliographie |
| Language: | French |
| Author: | Hadraoui, Touria / Monkachi, Myriam |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | Editions le fennec |
| Remarks: | UNU-WIDER study. Collection editor: Fatima Mernissi |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//NORTH AFRICA//BIBLIOGRAPHIES/ |
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| Call No. | B11258 / UNU |
| Title: | Modernizing woman : Gender and social change in the middle east |
| Author: | Moghadam V.M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | Lynne Reinner |
| Keyword: | /GENDER MAINSTREAMING//MIDDLE EAST//ECONOMIC CONDITIONS//MUSLIM |
| WOMEN//SOCIAL CONDITIONS/ |
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| Call No. | B13674 / UNU |
| Title: | Gender and development in the Arab world : women's economic participation : patterns and |
| policies |
| Author: | Khoury, Nabil F. ed. / Moghadam, Valentine M. ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | Zed Books |
| Remarks: | Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam is a senior research fellow at the UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /GENDER RESEARCH/WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT//ARAB COUNTRIES/ |
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| Call No. | B17163 / UNU |
| Title: | Evolution of the women's movement in contemporary Algeria : organization, objectives and |
| prospects |
| Author: | Bouatta, Cherifa |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /ALGERIA//WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B17180 / UNU |
| Title: | Health status and health policy in Sub-Saharan Africa : a long-term perspective |
| Author: | Cornia, Giovanni Andrea / Mwabu, Germano M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /MORTALITY//SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA//STATISTICS//MEDICAL POLICY//HEALTH STATUS |
| INDICATORS//CHILDREN//HEALTH AND HYGIENE//WOMEN/ |
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| Technological Change & Women's
Employment |
| Call No. | B12457 / UNU |
| Title: | ????????? |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Author: | Nakamura, Masanori ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1985 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Remarks: | A project initiated by the UNU with the cooperation of the Institute of Developing Economies, |
| Tokyo. |
| Keyword: | /TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE//WOMEN WORKERS//JAPAN//HISTORY//SILK INDUSTRY//COAL |
| MINING/ |
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| Call No. | B23992 / UNU |
| Title: | Computer-aided manufacturing and women's employment : the clothing industry in four EC |
| countries |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
| Remarks: | For the Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Education of the European |
| Communities, June 1990. |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT//CLOTHING INDUSTRY//MANUFACTURING//COMPUTER |
| APPLICATIONS//GERMANY//ITALY//NETHERLANDS//UNITED KINGDOM/ |
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| Call No. | B12448 / UNU |
| Title: | Technology change and female labour in Japan |
| Author: | Nakamura, Masanori ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Remarks: | Translation of : Gijutsu kakushin to joshi rodo, published in 1985. A project initiated by the |
| UNU with the cooperation of the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo. |
| Keyword: | /TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE//WOMEN WORKERS//JAPAN//HISTORY//SILK INDUSTRY//COAL |
| MINING/ | |
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| Call No. | B23994 / UNU |
| Title: | New technologies and the future of women's work in Asia |
| Author: | Ng, Cecilia Choon Sim ed. / Munro Kua, Anne ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Remarks: | The workshop was held from 13 to 16 September 1994 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| Keyword: | /NEW TECHNOLOGIES//TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE//WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT//ASIA/ |
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| Call No. | B13872 / UNU |
| Title: | Women encounter technology : changing patterns of employment in third world |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti and Rowbotham, Sheila ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | Routledge / UNU-INTECH |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN WORKERS//TECHNOLOGY CHANGE//DEVELOPING |
| COUNTRIES//WOMEN//EMPLOYMENT//INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu37we/uu37we00.htm |
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| Call No. | B17213 / UNU |
| Title: | Does new technology bode well for working women? : an evaluation and analysis |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Keyword: | /NEW TECHNOLOGIES//WOMEN WORKERS/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/hq/library/collection/PDF_files/INTECH/INTECHdp9512.pdf |
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| Call No. | B23995 / UNU |
| Title: | Industrial policies for the 21st century : new technology and women's work |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti ed. / Spaak, Asha ed. / Dhanda, Himadri K. ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Remarks: | The workshop was held from 29 to 31 March 1995 in New Delhi, India. The project was |
| jointly funded by UNIFEM and the Ministry of Development Cooperation, the Netherlands. |
| Keyword: | /NEW TECHNOLOGIES//INDUSTRIAL POLICY//WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT//ASIA/ |
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| Call No. | B23996 / UNU |
| Title: | Bridging the gap between the state and non-governmental organisations : formulating |
| industrial policies and women's work for the future |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti ed. / Ng, Cecilia Choon Sim ed. / Munro Kua, Anne ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Remarks: | The workshop was held from 26 to 28 March 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand. The project was |
| jointly funded by UNIFEM and the Ministry of Development Cooperation, the Netherlands. |
| Keyword: | /NEW TECHNOLOGIES//INDUSTRIAL POLICY//GOVERNMENT//NON-GOVERNMENTAL |
| ORGANIZATIONS//WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT//ASIA/ |
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| Call No. | B23991 / UNU |
| Title: | Virtually free? : gender, work and spatial choice |
| Author: | Mitter, Swasti and others |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) |
| Remarks: | The book contains 15 essays including "Teleworking in a global context" by Swasti Mitter, |
| Deputy Director, UNU-INTECH and Umit Efendioglu, Research Assistant, UNU-INTECH. |
| Keyword: | /NEW TECHNOLOGIES//GENDER//INFORMATION SOCIETY//WORK AT HOME//WOMEN'S |
| EMPLOYMENT//FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES/ |
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| Call No. | B23993 / UNU |
| Title: | Globalisation, technological change and women workers in Asia |
| Author: | Reardon, Geraldine / Mitter, Swasti / Ng, Cecilia |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Remarks: | The project was jointly funded by UNIFEM and the Ministry of Development Cooperation, the |
| Netherlands. |
| Keyword: | /TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE//WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT//ASIA/ |
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| Call No. | WEB0082 / UNU |
| Title: | Globalisation, Technological Change and Women Workers in Asia |
| Author: | Reardon, Geraldine / Mitter, Swasti / Ng, Cecilia |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | UNU-INTECH |
| Remarks: | The monograph is based on the research undertaken by twenty eight women workers |
| organisations in South and Southeast Asia where they collaborated with the UNU-INTECH in |
| the project entitled 'Monitoring and impact of technological change on women's work in |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN WORKERS//TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE//ASIA//GLOBALIZATION/ |
| Online full text: | http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/index.htm |
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| Women & Economic Development |
| Call No. | B17118 / UNU |
| Title: | Rural women, informal sector, and household economy in Tanzania |
| Author: | Omari, Cuthbert K. |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /RURAL WOMEN//EMPLOYMENT//TANZANIA//INFORMAL SECTOR//ECONOMICS//WOMEN IN |
| RURAL DEVELOPMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B17665 / UNU |
| Title: | The demographic transition and women's life-course in Colombia |
| Author: | Florez, Carmen E. / Bonilla, Elssy / Echeverri, Rafael |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Publisher: | UNU |
| Remarks: | A UNU Project on 'The Household, Gender, and Age.' Two studies, 'The Impact of the |
| Demographic Transition on Households in Bogota' and 'The Meaning of the Demographic |
| Transition on Households of a Colombian Rural Setting,' undertaken at the Center of Stud |
| Keyword: | /HOUSEHOLDS//DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS//COLOMBIA//WOMEN'S STATUS/ |
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| Call No. | B19131 / UNU |
| Title: | Women, households and change |
| Author: | Masini, Eleonora ed. / Stratigos, Susan ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Remarks: | A part of the project "Household, Gender, and Age" programme of the UNU. The Division for |
| the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Office at Vienna joined the project in its |
| final stages. |
| Keyword: | /HOUSEHOLDS//WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT//ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT//DEVELOPING |
| COUNTRIES/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu10we/uu10we00.htm |
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| Call No. | B17818 / UNU |
| Title: | The impact of labour migration on households : a comparative study in seven Asian countries |
| Author: | Gunatilleke, Godfrey |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | UNU |
| Remarks: | This volume presents the works done in the third phase of the research programme |
| sponsored by the UNU on the migration of Asian labour to the Arab countries. |
| Keyword: | MIGRATION//MIGRATION WORKER//MIGRATION POLICY//MANPOER |
| DEVELOPMENT//HOUSEHOLDS//STATISTICAL DATA//COMPARATIVE |
| ANALYSIS//REMITTANCES//WOMEN'S STATUS//BANGLADESH//INDIA//REPUBLIC OF |
| KOREA//PAKISTAN//PHILIPPINES |
| //SRI LANKA//THAILAND/ |
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| Call No. | B12152 / UNU |
| Title: | Democratic reform and the position of women in transitional economies |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. Ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Remarks: | Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam is senior research fellow at UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//EASTERN EUROPE//SOVIETS//POLITICAL MOVEMENTS//ECONOMIC |
| REFORM//WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT/ | |
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| Call No. | B16290 / UNU |
| Title: | The impact of economic development on rural women in China : A report of the United Nations |
| University household, gender, and age project |
| Author: | All-China Women's Federation |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT//RURAL AREAS//ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT//GENDER//CHINA/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu20ie/uu20ie00.htm |
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| Call No. | B12411 / UNU |
| Title: | Dignity and daily bread : new forms of economic organising among poor women in the Third |
| World and the First |
| Author: | Rowbotham, Sheila ed. / Mitter, Swasti ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Remarks: | Dignity and daily bread : one of several studies growing from the women's programme of |
| UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//POVERTY//EMPLOYMENT//DEVELOPING COUNTRIES/ |
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| Call No. | B17155 / UNU |
| Title: | Market reforms and women workers in Vietnam : a case study of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN//EMPLOYMENT//VIETNAM//ECONOMIC CONDITIONS//ECONOMIC POLICY/ |
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| Call No. | B13539 / UNU |
| Title: | Economic reforms, women's employment, and social policies : case studies of China, Viet |
| Nam, Egypt, and Cuba |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | UNU-WIDER |
| Keyword: | /DEVELOPMENT//ECONOMIC REFORM//WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT//WOMEN |
| WORKERS//EMPLOYMENT POLICY/ | |
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| Call No. | B13802 / UNU |
| Title: | Women, culture, and development : a study of human capabilities |
| Author: | Nussbaum, Martha Craven ed. / Glover, Jonathan ed. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Remarks: | A study prepared for the WIDER of the United Nations University |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN'S RIGHTS/CULTURAL ASPECTS//WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT/ |
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| Call No. | B13490 / UNU |
| Title: | Strengthening the family : implications for international development |
| Author: | Zeitlin, Marian F. and others |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | UNU Press |
| Keyword: | /FAMILY//SOCIAL CHANGE//ECONOMIC ASPECTS//MEDICAL ASPECTS//FAMILY |
| WELFARE//DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS//INDONESIA//NIGERIA//WOMEN'S STATUS/ |
| Online full text: | http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu13se/uu13se00.htm |
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| Call No. | B17873 / UNU |
| Title: | Patriarchy and economic development : women's positions at the end of the twentieth |
| century |
| Author: | Moghadam, Valentine M. |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Keyword: | /WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT//PATRIARCHY/ |
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