Role Of Women In Community Development

Kapalong cites role of women
KAPALONG, Davao del Norte (PIA) – The municipal government here gathered members of the Kapalong Council of Women coming from 14 villages in the culminating ceremony of Women’s Month. Kapalong Council of Women chairperson Maria Theresa R. Timbol viewed the activity as recognition of women’s great contribution to society’s development and as fulfillment of the mandate of advancing gender equality …


The Veterans of Hope Project: James Lawson~The Seamless Cloth of Faith and Struggle


The Veterans of Hope Project: James Lawson~The Seamless Cloth of Faith and Struggle



The centerpiece of the work of the Veterans of Hope Project is the development of an educational video archive. For the archive, the project conducts interview-conversations with religious leaders, activists, artists, educators and others who are veterans of struggles for peace and justice in this country and in other parts of the world. In videotaped sessions these men and women are invited to re…


Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)


Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)


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Dorothea Brooke, a young woman of impeccable character, marries the embittered Mr. Casaubon, who almost immediately dies. Eliot takes the reader through a labyrinth of nineteenth-century morals and conventions as Dorothea searches for fulfillment and happiness. Recommended in Laura Berquist British Literature Author: George Eliot Format: 896 pages, Paperback Publisher: Penguin Classics Revised edi…

The Lao: Gender, Power, And Livelihood (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)


The Lao: Gender, Power, And Livelihood (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)


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The Lao discusses Lao culture and village life, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity. The authors show the effects and recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and highlight the responses of women to those changes. Ireson-Doolittle and Moreno-Black provide not only a desc…

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty (Globalization and Community)


City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty (Globalization and Community)


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Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium-where, at a moment of liberalization, the …


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