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Beispiel für die Rolle der Frauen in Auseinandersetzungen. Einflußnahme der Frauen durch informelle Kanäle: Mutter-Sohn-Beziehungen, Familienbindungen, Haushaltsführung und bewußt gelenkter Tratsch. Da formale (Staats-) Macht in den Händen der Männer, Einfluß der Frauen nur indirekt, aber nicht weniger wirkungsvoll. (DÜI-Seu)

This article is based on an interview conducted with Dr. Adnan Houbballah, a psychoanalyst, who assisted patients during the Lebanese civil war.

A research paper on the role women have always played in Zimbabwe's agricultural sector. ; The Zimbabwe government regards agricultural development as of paramount importance to the nation's existence and future. For that reason, the government supports agricultural development at all levels from subsistence farmers to small-scale and large-scale commercial farmers. In Zimbabwean society, women play multiple roles in the agricultural sector, particularly in the communal land and small-scale commercial farming sectors. A number of studies on the role of women in economic development have touched on sensitive and deeply entrenched traditional beliefs, sometimes drawing controversial comments from decision makers, policy makers, researchers and extension agents. Throughout the 1990s the state realized the key role that women played in agriculture and development and sought to address the legal inequities that hindered them from exercising their full rights as citizens. However, many of the gains women had made were eroded by the conflicts that emerged as a result of the land reform programme.

There is scarcely any need to prove that woman's concern with health, on an individual or a general level, has always been one of her chief occupations. As a wife and mother, as a nurse, midwife or social worker, she has always had the responsibility of caring for the husband's and the child's physical well-being, for the sick in her home and in hospitals, and for the wounded on battlefields.