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This study of axiology explores the axiocentricity of being human. Human beings dwell in the realm of value. Values are not simply what persons have; values in large part are what persons are. The mystique of values is analyzed here in terms of their cultural, phenomenological, and ontological status. The relationship between science and values is debated. Values should not be submitted to reductionism. Postmodernism raises new problems for the future of a philosophy of values. Yet, we may direct our hopes toward happiness, universalism, and humanism as inseparable from value-life

The paper explores gender teaching at the Central European University (CEU), particularly investigating, through this case, the ways in which gender-related topics can be incorporated into higher education curricula. These authors consulted institutional documents and databases, to look into the CEU "gender regime" (Connell, 1987), and they also conducted semi-structured interviews with University faculty and students, to reflect perceptions on the gender dimension in higher education teaching and research. The authors have found that CEU's unique international character provides ample space to teaching gender both by way of the autonomous Gender Studies Department and via integrating gender into other fields of study. Institutional strategic commitment has been identified in gender mainstreaming higher education curricula, as the key to further development, which might materialize in gender-conscious hiring processes, and in providing 'gender expert consulting,' for example. It is only by institutional commitment - which is to replace the present practice, based on individual
faculty's professional commitment, guaranteed by 'academic freedom' - that systematic progress in gendering higher education curricula can be attained.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism -- PART I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure -- Chapter 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women's Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Chapter 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women's Empowerment -- Chapter 3. The State and Women's Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics -- PART II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia -- Chapter 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women's Participation and the NGO Boom in North India -- Chapter 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women's NGO Activism -- Chapter 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh -- PART III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs -- Chapter 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization -- Chapter 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania -- Chapter 10. Women's Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women's NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle -- Chapter 11. Beyond NGOization? Reflections from Latin America -- Conclusion. Feminisms and the NGO Form -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index