DSA Women and Development
Study Group

Saturday 23rd May 2009, 10.15am

Vanburgh College University of York, Heslington, York

The meeting is open to all members, and graduates, activists and academics are most welcome.
 
Please contact Haleh Afshar
E:haa1@york.ac.uk
T: 01904 433554
F: 01904 433563
A: Department of Politics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD

Provisional Programme

SHAHRZAD ATAI
Persian Women and the Difficulties they go through Regarding Iranian Divorce and Their Minimum Rights
 
SAM WONG
Gendering Public Participation in Trans-boundary Water Governance - What can we learn from the Volta River Basin in West Africa
 
HALEH AFSHAR
The Women’s National Commission: the last bastion of defence of women’s rights at the national and international levels in the UK?
 
RANATI MOHANRAJ
Challenges of doing qualitative research in a quantitative environment.
 
JYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA
Madonna, Seductress, Iron Maiden or Individualized Worker: Women Negotiate Gendered Stereotypes in the Indian IT industry
 
ANE TATE
Who foots the bill? More of the same for women home workers in the global economic crisis.
 
MARIAGRAZIA LEONE
Maternity Waiting Homes in Laos; from “women places” to community centres.
 
ESTHER RICHARDS
The Catholic Church and reproductive rights in East Timor
 
BINA FERNANDEZ
Dirty women: Ethiopian domestic workers in the Middle East.

Anyone wishing to stay after the meeting is welcome to do so. Please inform Haleh in good time, to enable her to reserve a table, or a room, to have dinner and informal discussions at a local restaurant.

People needing accommodation or child care facilities, or local residents able to offer accommodation, please also contact Haleh as soon as possible.

LINKS: maps and information about the University ::Vanburgh College

The DSA Study Group is an annual event, organised by Professor Haleh Afshar.