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30 October 2014
Published by: IDS
Challenging Patriarchy presents contributions to the evolution of thinking on men and masculinities in Gender and Development, drawing on three IDS Bulletins published over a period of more than a decade.
30 November 2014
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The green revolution and the global integration of food markets were supposed to relegate scarcity to the annals of history. So why did thousands of people in dozens of countries take to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011?
30 September 2014
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the...
30 September 2014
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The organisation of women domestic workers in Brazil reveals a process of collective empowerment at work in a society where gender,...
14 August 2014
Published by: IDS
Field research among geographically dispersed communities is time-consuming and costly. When people are stigmatised, field research has additional ethical and logistical problems. In many countries lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (people are both geographically dispersed and stigmatised.
14 August 2014
Published by: IDS
Urban violence is an urgent and growing problem in many cities across the world. It comes in a multitude of forms such as gender-based violence, gangs and drug-related violence, police violence, religious riots, vigilante groups, and others.
1 January 2012
Published by: IDS
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights
and gender equality specialists in...
1 January 2012
Published by: IDS
Bangladesh has become known as something of a success in advancing gender equality
since the 1990s. There have been rapid gains in a...
1 August 2014
Published by: GSDRC
This rapid review presents lessons learnt from social protection/cash transfer programmes which target women survivors of domestic/family violence. As a result of the impact of domestic violence, women survivors of violence often require the support of social protection programmes
1 January 2011
Published by: IDS
The Timor Leste secession conflict lasted for 25 years. Its last wave of violence in 1999,
following the withdrawal of Indonesian...