1. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1982
   
2. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
3. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
4. The Export of Philippine Women
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   Principles of social justice are clearly not served by applauding a system that prides itself in an increased GNP at the same time that it farms out its women to be servants of the world.
5. Half the Sky
   Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
6. Land, Food, Freedom
   Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   
7. Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
8. Mothers of the Disappeared 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   This is the story of the mothers who risked their lives to demonstrate in the plazas by holding placards of the children they lost during the "guerra sucia" the dirty war fought in Argentina during the 1976-1983 repression by the Alfonsin junta. Through the Mother's own words we see the unfolding of Argentinian history, the growing polarization of society and how they coped with the effects not only on their family but the social structure of a country.
9. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
10. Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
11. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
12. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
13. State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
14. The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
15. Sweeter than Honey
    Ethiopian Women and Revolution: Testimonies of Tigrayan Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Through the voices of Tigrayan women-farmers, famine survivors and military commanders this book allows the reader to see what is happening in Tigray. Women have been working with the People's Liberation Front to transform their society through a gradual process of revolution to democracy. Their stories and testaments show how integral their participation is to this struggle. It is truly a revolution that is "sweeter than honey".
16. Tide Turning in Latin America?
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
17. Why is India so bad for women?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
18. Woman in Ancient Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Using travellers' reports written between the 12th and 16th centuries, Loth challenges the traditional view of women in ancient Africa as subservient. The text, illustrated with 112 black-and-white and 46 full-colour photographs, reveals women in the time of the great African empires and city founders, religious leaders, traders, and family bread-winners as well as wives and mothers.
19. Women and Environment in the Third World
    Alliance for the Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. The autors describe ways in which women can organized to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
20. Women and Global Capitalism
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
21. Women and the Environment in the Third World
    Alliance for the Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This book contains well documented case studies and interviews with leading women conservationists from the Third World, and gives a clear account of women's problems in relation to land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. It also looks at the lack of response from international organizations and at ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
22. Women on the frontlines of Kurdish struggles: An interview with JI.NHA women's news agency
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In 2015, Corporate Watch visited Bakur (meaning 'North' in Kurmanji), the Kurdish region within Turkey's borders. We interviewed two journalists from JI.NHA, an all-women news agency made up of mostly Kurdish women, based in Amed. Our meeting with JI.NHA took place just after the Turkish election in June 2015. Since our interviews, the Turkish state has begun a new war on its Kurdish population. Cities have been attacked by the police and military with mortars, tanks and helicopters and every day Kurdish citizens are being murdered. People in cities across Bakur have erected barricades in their neighbourhoods to defend themselves against the violence and are trying to organise autonomously from the state.
23. The World of Burmese Women
    Resource Type: Book
    This is a wide-ranging, frank and sensitively written portrait of women in Burmese society, the first of such studies to be written by a Burmese author. Mi Mi Khaing looks at women in all spheres of life and provides remarkable insights into a Third World country little known in the outside world. This book achieves a rare combination of the sociological with the personal.

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