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AbstractStarting from the premise that the nature and impact of women's agency can be understood only within specific historical and socio-cultural environments (Sadiqi, 2003), the major aim of this paper is to highlight the multi-faceted agency of women in post-colonial and today's Maghrib. The Maghrib is a North African region that includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania, but I chose to focus on the first three countries given their common historical and socio-cultural background. Not only have women in this region faced challenges, but they have also pioneered feminist and gender studies and raised new issues for these disciplines in the global South as well as the North. Four major interrelated domains where these achievements are significant are considered: women's reproductive rights, women's movements, women's legal rights, and women's knowledge production. Issues related to these domains are analyzed from a broad comparative perspective which involves an overall political and economic contextualization. The paper reveals the positive role that Maghribi women have been playing in the overall development of their countries and the main outcomes show that the future of the Maghrib is significantly linked to the fate of these gains.

Foreword /by Heloise Emdon --Introduction /Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb --Doing research with women for the purpose of transformation /Ineke Buskens --Women's use of information and communication technologies in Mozambique : a tool for empowerment? /Gertrudes Macueve ... [et al.] --Considering ICT use when energy access is not secured : a case study from rural South Africa /Jocelyn Muller --Rural women's use of cell phones to meet their communication needs : a study from northern Nigeria /Kazanka Comfort and John Dada --Egyptian women artisans facing the demands of modern markets : caught between a rock and a hard place /Leila Hassanin --When a gender-blind access policy results in discrimination : realities and perceptions of female students at the University of Zimbabwe /Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Elizabeth Mlambo and Precious Mwatsiya --An alternative public space for women : the potential of ICT /Leila Hassanin --Using ICTs to act on hope and commitment : the fight against gender violence in Morocco /Amina Tafnout and Aatifa Timjerdine --The names in your address book : are mobile phone networks effective in advocating women's rights in Zambia? /Kiss Brian Abraham --Mobile phones in a time of modernity : the quest for increased self-sufficiency among women fishmongers and fish processor in Dakar /Ibou Sane and Mamadou Balla Traore --Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi : examining and contextualizing women's choices /Alice Wanjira Munyua --Internet use among women entrepreneurs in the textile sector in Douala, Cameroon : self-taught and independent /Gisele Yitamben and Elise Tchinda --ICTs as agents of change : a case of grassroots women entrepreneurs in Uganda /Susan Bakesha, Angela Nakafeero and Dorothy Okello --The mobile payphone business : a vehicle for rural women's empowerment in Uganda /Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo --Professional women empowered to succeed in Kenya's ICT sector /Okwach Abagi, Olive Sifuna and Salome Awuor Omamo --Reflections on the mentoring experiences of ICT career women in Nairobi, Kenya : looking in the mirror /Salome Awuor Omamo --Our journey to empowerment : the role of ICT /Ruth Meena and Mary Rusimbi --Epilogue /Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.

In this talk, I want to examine the place of art in women and gender studies, and how these areas draw upon the interdisciplinary promise of feminist theory when considering cultural production. Art history has been part of women's studies and the work of women artists is studied, but in the pre-dominant switch to gender, sexuality and representation in course structures, I want to draw attention to areas of enquiry that are missing from debates about feminisms in relation to contemporary art. I will refer back to different understandings of the role of art within the women's movement in the 1970s and to the situation of women artists in the art world then and now which are contributing to this situation. Artists and artworks have produced a visual language for feminist protest and produced works which are strongly issue-based and politically engaged with regard to feminist issues, but visual art itself is marginal in most women and gender studies by comparison with research on mass media, film and literature. Studying gender, sexuality and representation (the dominant course, where feminism appears in arts curricula and visual arts in gender studies), art emerges again as a key area of interest, but this provides a very specific focus on certain types of visual representation and I will argue, as a result, other formulations of the relations between aesthetics and politics are not at the centre of these debates.

The brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 lit a spark of outrage across the world. Young women marched in protest, urging recognition of the rights of women and greater gender equality. This book emerges in response to the young woman's subsequent death and the protests which followed. The contributors have come together to present a detailed analysis of the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence and the long struggle for gender equality. They analyze violence in a number of countries and examine the courage and bravery of the many women who are fighting for justice.

China's rapid socio-economic development has achieved remarkable equalizing conditions between men and women in the aspects of health, education and labor force participation, but the glass ceiling phenomenon has become more prominent. The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics at its core, to better understand gender in China and women in management in the Chinese business context. The theoretical perspective integrates the knowledge and evidence from cognate disciplinary strands, such as economics, sociology, management studies, and the Chinese literature, into one unified framework. In-depth interviews with managers in China's largest enterprises complement the theoretical perspective with rich empirical details to examine women's managerial experiences and career choices. The book's argument sheds light on the power of stereotypes that specify women's roles in the family, organization, and society. It shows that understanding the socio-psychological and organizational dynamics of stereotyping in the Chinese context, as well as how Chinese women make career decisions, recognizing and deploying these expectations, provides new perspectives on the underrepresentation of women among business leaders in China. The book offers multi-disciplinary evidence on the economics of gender in China that is highly relevant for gender studies in general, and across a number of subject areas, and it can be used in any setting as an introductory reference