more info on gender issues
Sandra S. Hodge (mailto:ssh3w@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU)
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:45:33 -0400
Message-ID: <199607161145.HAA156228@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:45:33 -0400
From: "Sandra S. Hodge" <mailto:ssh3w@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject: more info on gender issues
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Jul 14, 16:12, Sue Adams wrote:
> Subject: New Resource Directory
>
>
> Gretings from the Coady International Institute. Coady is a
> university-based training centre which aims to strengthen
> the capacities of Southern organizations engaged in
> sustainable grassroots development and people's
> empowerment. Our history as an institute goes back to 1959,
> but is rooted in a much longer tradition of community
> development here in Eastern Canada.
>
> Our publication-in-progress is a Resource Directory on
> Gender and Sustainable Rural Development. This project is a
> collective effort coordinated by the Institute and WAND,
> the Women and Development Unit of the University of the
> West Indies.
>
> We hope that you - researchers, trainers and activists in
> the field of gender and development - may wish to let
> others know about gender resources you have prepared, or
> that you have found useful in your workshops or research.
>
> We hope to debunk the myth that good print and audio-visual
> materials are only available from the so-called "developed"
> countries. The directory will showcase the exciting
> resources being produced by development workers in the
> South, and will serve as a tool for networking with
> agencies involved in gender and development activities in
> other regions. It will be available as a WWW document, and
> also in print format.
>
> If you would like to participate in the creation of the
> Resource Directory by describing a useful book, video,
> manual or case study that deals with gender and sustainable
> rural development, please contact Sue Adams at the Marie
> Michael Library, address below. We are particularly
> interested in items that work from a critical, social
> perspective, but more technical items might be included if
> they also contain an element of social analysis.
>
> Hope that this ongoing, collaborative project may interest
> you! Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you
> think may be interested, particularly Southern friends.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Sue Adams Marie Michael Library
> Librarian Coady International Institute
> St Francis Xavier University
> mailto:sadams@stfx.ca Box 5000, Antigonish,
> fax: (902) 867-3907 Nova Scotia, Canada B2G 2W5
> tel: (902) 867-3964
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> -- End of excerpt from Sue Adams <mailto:sadams@juliet.stfx.ca>