Societies in Transition Challenges to Womens and Gender Studies [Paperback]

The book presents inside perspectives of women's and gender studies programs from a great variety of countries. It analyses how societal transitions influence the emergence and further development of such programs and by doing this reflects the contradictory changes of women's status and roles worldwide.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 Universit?t 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.Mit Beitr?gen von: Gabriele Griffin, Victoria Grace, Silke Wenk, Sigrid Metz-G?ckel, Susan Zimmermann, Bozena Choluj, Susanne Schunter-Kleemann, Kinga Lohmann, Rashida A. Al-Hamdani, Rokhsana M. Ismail, Josi Salem-Pickartz, Yasmin Haddad, Gamze Ege, Savita Singal, Puspa Ghimire-Niraula, Ira Acharya, Sheila Meintjes, Samiera Zafar, Anne PhillipsHeike Fle?ner, Ph.D., professor of Social Pedagogy at Carl vlƒJ