Native potatoes are an important element of food security both as a direct food source and as a cash crop for peasant producers in the Andes of Peru. Production is basically for self-consumption and the shift to commercialization is a challenge. As a response, the Papa Andina Initiative (COGEPAN) was initiated to promote market innovation and pro-vide relative advantage to producers to respond to emerging markets. Research is limited on the integration, information and communication in relation to social relations. Old and new nonreciprocal relations and roles among stakeholders, consequences of customary practices, undermine the ability of female peasant producers. Any process requires an un-derstanding of culture, traditions and the gendered practices of agricultural production. As the research was premised on a feminist perspective, a sequential explanatory and mixed design was utilized for obtaining background and contextual data in a way that coupled collecting sex-disaggregated data with iterative planning activities readjusting the research to sharpen its focus on women. The situation of Andean peasant women within modern-day agricultural innovation systems is influenced by traditions and cus-tomary laws embedded in the specific lifeworlds of peasant communities. In COGEPAN, gender relations and roles are changing from the macro to the individual levels. Each change opens up new opportunities to shape innovation and benefit women. The partici-patory nature of market chains unfolds spaces for women to reveal leadership abilities. Gender relations and innovation have shifted in their own areas of interest or spheres. However, other gender issues are still embedded in peasant farming systems and the na-tive market chain. Results allow the researcher to recommend further policy analysis. The full range of women’s and men’s activities, resources, and benefits has to be reflected in the assessment of the innovation system and continuing activities. Gendered socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of proposed technological or institutional innova-tions need to be considered. Structural obstacles have to be addressed by implementing policies that facilitate peasant women’s advancement. The design and implementation of policy and legislation have to acknowledge that communities are not homogeneous and mechanisms have to be context-specific to achieve equitable representation of women and men. / Government of Ontario, IDRC/AUCC - LACREG, University of Guelph

<p>The study outlines five areas of intervention in the development of women&rsquo / s studies and politics on the continent. Firstly, it examines the problematic construction and the inclusion of women in the narratives of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Secondly, the study identifies the sphere of intellectual debates as one of the crucial sites in the production of historical knowledge about the legacies of liberation struggles on the continent. Thirdly, it traces the intellectual trajectory of Charlotte Maxeke as an embodiment of the intellectual contributions of women in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. In this regard, the study traces Charlotte Maxeke as she deliberated and engaged on matters pertaining to the welfare of the Africans alongside the prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century. Fourthly, the study inaugurates a theoretical departure from the documentary trends that define contemporary studies on women and liberation movements on the continent. Fifthly, the study examines the incorporation of Maxeke&rsquo / s legacy of active intellectual engagement as an integral part of gender politics in the activities of the Women&rsquo / s Section of the African National Congress. In the areas identified, the study engages with the significance of the intellectual inputs of Charlotte Maxeke in South African history.</p>

Ce mémoire a étudié les perceptions de femmes haïtiennes vivant au Québec depuis moins de cinq ans de leurs relations sexuelles avec les hommes et de leurs rapports de couple. Après avoir opté pour une méthodologie de recherche qualitative, la théorie féministe intersectionnelle a été retenue comme cadre d’analyse. Des entretiens individuels semi-dirigés ont été menés auprès de 9 femmes haïtiennes, âgées de 18 à 60 ans et ayant immigré au Québec depuis moins de cinq ans. Les perceptions des femmes de la sexualité ont été appréhendées comme étant un ensemble de discours et de pratiques inter reliés, qui se construit dès l’enfance, et qui reproduit les types de rapports inégalitaires entre hommes et femmes qui existent dans la société haïtienne et dans leur couple. Ces rapports inégalitaires sont véhiculés entre les générations à travers la plupart des institutions sociales comme la famille, l’école, la culture, la législation. Ce processus de construction des perceptions de la sexualité est également influencé par des enjeux socio-économiques et de pouvoir. Les résultats de cette recherche permettent de disposer de données scientifiques sur la sexualité des femmes et les rapports de couple en Haïti et l’influence du processus migratoire. Ces résultats soulignent également la nécessité pour le travail social haïtien d’encourager le développement de l’empowerment économique des femmes et leur participation aux débats actuels de la société sur l’évolution de la condition féminine. / The purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions of Haitian women that had immigrated to Quebec in the past five years, of their sexual relationships with men and the extent to which it is reflected in the different types of conjugal relationships. After choosing a qualitative research method, the intersectional feminist theory has been adopted for the analysis. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 Haitian women, aged 18 and 60 years and having immigrated to Quebec in the past five years. The women’s perceptions of sexual relationships have been reported as being a set of practices and discourses interrelated built since childhood and reproducing the unequal relationships between men and women that exist in the Haitian society and in the couples. These unequal relationships are transmitted through the generations and through most of the social institutions such as family, school, culture, laws. This process is also influenced by socio-economic and power issues. The results of this research give scientific data on women sexuality and couple relationships as well as the influence of immigration process. These results also emphasize the need for the Haitian social work to encourage the development of economic empowerment of women and their participation in current debates in society on the development of women. / Memwa sa a vle etidye ki pèsepsyon fanm ayisyèn yo genyen de rapò seksyel yo ak gason, e nan ki mezi pèsepsyon sa yo repwodwi kalite relasyon ki egziste ant yomenm ak nèg yo. Rechèch la chwazi yon metodoloji kalitativ, apresa li kenbe teyori feminis entèseksyonèl kom kad ki pou pemet li analize done li yo. Rechèch la nenen 9 antrevi mwatye ouvè, mwatye fèmen ak 9 fanm ayisyèn, ki genyen ant 18 ak 60 lane, epi ki imigre nan pwovens kebèk, nan peyi Kanada depi mwens pase 5 lane. Dapre rezilta rechèch la, pèsepsyon medanm yo genyen de seksyalite yo tradwi pa yon pakèt pawòl ak yon pakèt abitid ki mare ansanm. Medanm yo komanse ranmase bagay sayo depilè yo te timoun lakay paran yo pou jiskaske yo vin granmoun lakay pa yo. Fason sa yo medanm yo konprann seksyalite a tou, se yon bagay ki soti nan relasyon fòskote ki egziste ant fanm ak gason, ni nan sosyete ayisyènn nan, ni nan relayon konjigal yo. Bagay sa yo transmèt de generasyon an generasyon gras ak lafanmi, lekol, lakilti, lwa peyia. Pou fini, pèsepsyon sa yo medanm yo gen de seksyalite yo a makonen ak yon seri de enterè ekonomik ak politik ki gen nan sosyete a. Resilta rechèch sa a fe plizyè bagay. Premyèman li pemèt nou genyen dokiman syantifik sou seksyalite fanm ak relasyon ki genyen ant fanm ak gason lè yap viv andedan kay, nan peyia. Dezyèmman, rezilta yo montre travayèz ak travayè sosyal yo an ayiti, kouma li enpotan pou yo ankourage medanm yo devlope pouvwa lajan lakay yo. Rezilta yo montre tou kouman li enpotan pou medanm ayisyènn yo chache rantre nan tout diskisyon kap fet nan sosyete ayisyèn nan sou kondisyon lavi fanm yo.

This dissertation focuses on the living arrangements of multi-generational households among ten biggest immigrant groups in the United States. Specifically, it examines whether the husband's or the wife's older parents were more likely to be present. Co-residence patterns were taken as a proxy that reflected relative decision-making power in the family. A number of factors hypothesized to be associated with the outcome were examined to explore the effect of immigration on gender role ideology and gender relations in the post-1965 immigrant family. More than 102,000 multi-generational households from the 2000 U.S. Census were included in the analyses. Results suggested that while there were positive signs for women's increasing status and relative decision-making power, the influence of original sending culture where immigrants have come from proved to be strong and persistent. Those from more patriarchal sending cultures, represented by India, Korea, and China, were more likely to have the husband's parents co-residing; while those from less patriarchal sending cultures, represented by Jamaica, Cuba, and El Salvador, were more likely to have the wife's parents present in the household. These findings illustrate the complex nature of gender relations in the immigrant family whereby the effect of assimilation is found in some domains, while the influence of sending culture is enduring or even reinforced in other domains. Results of this research contribute to the better understanding of the diversity of changes in gender relations that accompany immigration.

The central objective of this dissertation is to gain an understanding of the effect by the market within the household on a specific developmental initiative whose aim was poverty reduction. This dissertation analyses how individuals gain access to resources, and how they enforce their entitlements during the on-going implicit and explicit negotiations inherent in daily rural life. The research tested the suitability of several concepts previously untested in the southern African context. The concept of hearth-holds, proved valuable as a unit of analysis which recognizes the importance of female-directed social units. The relevance of the fall-back position in terms of locality of kin, as well as perceptions of legitimacy, were crucial in affecting how far they were willing to go and what they felt they could demand in everyday household bargaining situations. The deficiency of using romantic ideas of conjugal relations and equal opportunities to explain practice was apparent. Spouses strategise within the terms of their conjugal contracts, at times adhering to the dominant patriarchal bargain, at times covertly defying or overtly challenging it, and following another bargain. Placing women as the custodians of morality, works to the relative advantage of men by isolating women from accessing certain opportunities. Female heads of households, manage to legitimise their access to resources by virtue of being custodians of their children. Custodianship of cash funds, and the dominant decision making model used for resource related decisions in the household, clearly impacted on the relevance of different strategies in the bargaining process. The strategic entry points in this process of reduced transparency and violence were relevant in most households studied. The latter was effective in reinforcing and shaping the conjugal contract, despite in effect breaking it. Drinking facilitated this process by creating a temporary suspension of the rules. Concrete recommendations for developmental practitioners involve incorporating the hearth-hold concept and promoting the communal planning, budgeting and monitoring approach, as well as to specifically target individuals who need their intra-household bargaining power boosted. A clear policy on affirmative action in gate keeper roles, as well as gender disaggregated documentation of beneficiaries, should be institutionalised. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

The purpose of this research was to analyse the impact of forced migration on women and development in northern Uganda. The armed conflict in northern Uganda, which started in 1986, led to gross violations of human rights against women forcing them to flee their homes and ftnd refuge in overcrowded resettlement camps. The main objective of the study was to critically analyse the causes of displacement and the experiences of internally displaced women so as to contribute to available knowledge on women and development Qualitative and feminist research techniques were carried out in Erute Camp located in Lira Municipality among intemally displaced women, using observation and interviews. The findings reveal that forced migration was caused by the armed conflict between the LRA rebels and the government solders. The conflict destroyed in:frastructw·e and socio-economic service delivery systems. This consequently par·alysed the northern Uganda's development as many civilians were forced to abandon their homesteads due to traumatic experiences of killings, torture and abductions. This resulted in human disintegration and the collapse of economic and social development in the region that was based on agriculture. The prolonged insecurity disrupted education, health, communication and commercial activities resulting in absolute poverty and underdevelopment Despite effo11s by government and some humanitarian agencies to provide the needs of the affected civilians, peace and reconciliation seems to be hard to achieve. Insecurity continues to spread making normal life, relief and economic activities impossible. Due to lack of effective implementation, coordination and monitoring of programmes, the situation poses great challenges to government and international h\Unanitarian agencies present such as: WFP, UNHCR, WHO, World Bank and others. Therefore, forced migration has a significant impact on women's social, economic, cultural and environmental development. However, a positive impact regar·ding women's empowe1ment and gender equality due to changed roles was eminent. I conclude by recommending that the stakeholders need to increase the capacity to restore peace. There is need to coordinate the development projects and programmes through increased flexibility and transparency. However, the need to involve women in the reconciliation and reconstruction processes to restore peace in northern Uganda is vital / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil.

Text in English / Guided by Connell’s social constructionist theory of hegemonic masculinity, in a study conducted at a township primary school in Gauteng East, I explored the way boys in Grade 7 interact with each other and girls, as a well as the way in which they understand the world around them in the context of gender relations. A purposive sampling method was used to select boys and girls to participate in this qualitative study. A total of 30 research participants, 17 boys and 13 girls, took part in this study. The methodology included the use of individual diaries and focus groups to solicit information and observe gender relations in boys and girls in the construction of masculinity. Masculinity in this study was constructed through power relations. The themes identified when analysing the social relationships between boys and girls were sexuality, the sturdy boy, homosociality, sex roles, defying authority and the comedian. / Sociology / M.A. (Sociology)

SILVA, Maria Aparecida. Trajetórias de mulheres negras líderes de movimentos sociais em Araraquara - SP: estratégias sociais na construção do modo de vida. 2011. 186f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2011. / Submitted by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-27T16:17:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Tese_MASilva.pdf: 10964142 bytes, checksum: fdea9933879d52a3680e3695b1be0c6b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-01T14:55:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Tese_MASilva.pdf: 10964142 bytes, checksum: fdea9933879d52a3680e3695b1be0c6b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-01T14:55:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Tese_MASilva.pdf: 10964142 bytes, checksum: fdea9933879d52a3680e3695b1be0c6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / This thesis is about the experience of black women living in two different neighbourhoods of Araraquara, state of São Paulo, named Santana and Vila Xavier, who take part in the Black social movement, organizing cultural events or who attend a mainly afro-Brazilian environment. This research is qualitative and starts in the 1970s and ends 2010. Interviews were used as a methodological tool to collect the data featuring orally handed down history. Based on the interviews with 21 black women, their social environment, their insertion into the mainly afro-Brazilian community, the importance of education and schooling, and the significance of their areas of influence and action were reconstructed. The aim of this research is to verify, unveil and understand the social strategies elaborated by these women based on their experience by constructing a way of life that contributes to the strengthening of their identity, their development and performance in the Black social movement. These concerns arise as a way to broaden the comprehension of how this part of the population is perceived by a society that has defined its social roles. Roles that are in a sort of way subtly imposed and absorbed as a mean, by which social relationships are built and maintained. The approach is based on three main points of discussion: gender, ethnic-racial and black social movement. As the research is focused on women it’s inconceivable not to address the differences such as the relationship of power between sexes, and given they are black women, the ethnic-racial discussion about discrimination, particularities and singularities is possible but also the black social movement as a path to education, training and empowerment as a leader. Making them visible is to rescue them from the margins of society and to build a new history. / Esta tese versa sobre as experiências de mulheres negras participantes do movimento social negro, organizadoras de eventos culturais e ou freqüentadoras de espaço de maioria afrodescendente moradoras de dois bairros da cidade de Araraquara, interior de São Paulo, a saber: o Santana e a Vila Xavier. A investigação é qualitativa e procede a partir da década de 1970 a 2010 com o recurso metodológico da história oral tendo como ferramenta para a coleta de dados a entrevista, com depoimentos de 21 mulheres negras que resultou na reconstrução de seus espaços de sociabilidade, no envolvimento na comunidade de maioria afrodescendente, na representação da educação e da escola e no significado dos espaços de atuação em suas vidas. A finalidade é verificar, desvelar e perceber nas experiências dessas mulheres negras as estratégias sociais elaboradas na construção de modos de vida que contribuíram no fortalecimento da identidade, formação e atuação nos movimentos sociais negros. Estas preocupações surgem como uma forma de ampliar a compreensão de como esse contingente se encontra perante a sociedade que tem definido seus papéis sociais. Papéis, aliás, que acabam sendo, de alguma forma, impostos e absorvidos sutilmente como a maneira através das quais as relações sociais são mantidas. A abordagem está fundamentada em três eixos de discussões: gênero, étnicorracial e movimento social negro. Como a pesquisa é com mulheres, é inegável enfrentar as diferenças percebidas como relação de poder entre os sexos e são mulheres negras, o que possibilita a discussão étnicorracial, percebendo as discriminações, as particularidades e singularidades e também o movimento social negro na perspectiva de encaminhamento à formação e empoderamento na condição de liderança. Visibilizá-las significa tirá-las das margens que aparece na sociedade, e construir outra história.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:33:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francieli do Rocio de Campos.pdf: 1744937 bytes, checksum: 622bb21fdf954bd6c9976171f8f8da3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work aims to analyze the participation of women and men within the rural Settlement on 8 June, located in Laranjeiras do Sul PR. Reflective of a proposal on the empowerment of women in the productive end reproductive contribution within the family, observed gender relations, sexual division of labor, family structure, social and political organization of the settlement. In this sense, the work seeks to investigate the factors that contributed to the emergence of the community s social capital, as well as to the historical reconstruction of the camp and settlement from the perspective of gender relations and in the context of rural development. Therefore, this work under the theoretical background on social movements, among them: the landless, the rural workers and rural organization, seeking to enter this dynamic nuances in the territorial end productive diversification to understand the factors that extend to the rural development settlement on 8 June. And, in examining this process, the results showed incipient empowerment of women in male disempowerment consequence, due to the social processes experienced by most families during camp and also their inclusion in activities outside the property. In that order, so women have assumed negligible power in dividing the property or with their partner and children. / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a participação da mulher e do homem no espaço do Assentamento rural 8 de Junho, localizado em Laranjeiras do Sul PR. Numa proposta reflexiva sobre o empoderamento da mulher no espaço produtivo e sua contribuição no espaço reprodutivo das famílias, observado as relações de gênero, divisão sexual do trabalho, estrutura familiar, organização social e política do assentamento. Neste sentido, o trabalho busca investigar os fatores que contribuíram para emergir o capital social da comunidade, bem como, fazer a reconstituição histórica do acampamento e assentamento na ótica das relações de gênero e no contexto do desenvolvimento rural. Para tanto, este trabalho parte do embasamento teórico acerca dos movimentos sociais, dentre eles: o sem terra, o de trabalhadores rurais e organização rural, buscando inserir essas nuances na dinâmica territorial e diversificação produtiva para entender os fatores que se estendem ao desenvolvimento rural do Assentamento 8 de Junho. E, ao examinar tal processo os resultados apontaram incipiente empoderamento da mulher em consequencia o desempoderamento masculino, decorrente dos processos sociais vividos por grande parte das famílias no período do acampamento e, também, da sua inserção nas atividades extra-propriedade. De tal ordem, as mulheres de modo ínfimo têm assumido o poder na propriedade ou dividindo-o com o parceiro e filhos.

Der Begriff Geschlechterdispositiv verweist auf den Dispositiv-Begriff bei Michel Foucault und umfasst das machtvolle Zusammenspiel von hegemonialen Geschlechternormen in Gestalt von gesellschaftlich-kulturellen Leitbildern (Diskursen), von institutionellen Regelungen wie Geschlechtsrollenverteilungen (Institutionen), von vergeschlechtlichten Praktiken im Sinne des doing gender (Praxis) und von geschlechtlichen Identitätsangeboten (Subjektivität). Die Konstruktion von Geschlecht ist mit Machtbeziehungen und Wahrheitspolitiken verbunden. Das Geschlechterdispositiv stellt damit auch eine Analyseeinheit dar, die sich für eine empirische Forschung im Sinne einer relationalen Machtanalytik öffnet.