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The academization/institutionalization of Women's Studies has emerged as a result of the need to legitimize, develop, and further promote the feminist movement. Western feminists have considered this phenomenon the culmination of their long struggle: as enabling a credible and legitimate voice to a large sector of society that has long been silenced. Bringing women's issues and concerns to the University has accorded feminist academics a platform to undertake research, publish studies, and develop different conceptual and methodological tools to deal with traditionally ignored social phenomena.

IWSAW was invited to attend the Workshop of the Women's Studies' and Gender Research Network on July 25 and 26, 2007 in Manila, the Philippines. During the workshop the network members discussed ways of collaborating with UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Program for Gender Equality and Women's Rights and areas for inter-university/ research centers collaboration on gender issues across continents.

If we accept the distinction between sex and gender, introduced by the Second Wave of Feminism, and if we agree that gender does not have to be limited to two sexes, we will enter the terrain of the queer, the world of labile, liquid sexuality where the borders between men and women get blurred and the space opens for creating various human hybrids. In Poland, the middle of 1990 saw the launch of the women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, queer, LGBT, opening new domains and new methods of human studies. We can call them post-feminist and cultural studies because they stem from the feminist distinction between sex and gender and are focused on gender, i.e. on cultural rather than biological determinants of human beings. The new human sciences will have to face such new narratives of human beings, rethink the concept of objectivity (science) and commitment, learn to live in pluralistic world of many theories and more precisely many discourses, and to learn to cooperate with various groups to present their point of view. But first of all, the new human sciences will have to replace the idea of unity by idea of difference. Once we were looking for unity, now we are looking for difference.

This article examines why, in most African countries, women farmers achieve lower productivity in agriculture than men. It contributes to this debate by interrogating whether or not addressing gender gaps in agricultural production significantly contributes to socio-economic well-being (resilience) of women as well as the gross domestic product (GDP). The Living Standards Measurement Studies-Integrated Survey for Agriculture projects was adopted to produce estimates for three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda). The article draws from a research report and collaborative study by UN Women with UNEP and World Bank. The result shows that although female farmers individually manage slightly more than 25 per cent of all plots in Malawi and Uganda and about 20 per cent of all plots in Tanzania, Malawi shows the largest difference in mean productivity where women's plots are, on average, 28 per cent less productive than men's while Tanzania and Uganda reported 16 per cent and 13 per cent gender gaps, respectively. This result implies that the importance of other productive resources other than access to land may be key – for instance, the need to tackle constraints related to women's access to "household male labour" and policies that help women farmers to access labour-saving technologies.Keywords: Keywords: Land Access, Gender, Agricultural Productivity, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda.

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The Review of Women's Studies is remarkable on several counts: the level of interest of its contents; its thrust towards linking gender studies to the building of a democratic Arab society; and not least the conditions of its production under Israeli siege and closure. The year of its launching, 2002, saw the Israeli re-occupation of the whole West Bank, manifested in a situation of violence, closure, and curfew that affected every aspect of daily life. As the Introduction to the first volume notes, this was a period when Birzeit students and faculty faced a daily struggleto reach the university. That the Birzeit Institute of Women's Studies (IWS) carried on and even expanded its teaching, research and publication program under such conditions is a sign of the dynamic that links work on gender to Palestinian resistance.

The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) through its director Dima Dabbous- Sensenig along with two LAU graduate students participated in the workshop titled "Teaching Gender: Curriculum Workshop" that took place at the universities of Sana'a and Aden from June 9-12, 2007.

This Thematic Conversation will assess the impact and changes in a significant and ongoing debate within women and gender studies and related disciplines. This debate concerns the insider vs. externalobserver in the study of and/or teaching on women and gender of the Middle East. Within anthropology it isdescribed as the emic vs. the etic approach to observation and understanding. Now that a broad and varied body of data and publications on the topics of women and gender of the Middle East has appeared in the last quarter of the twentieth century, it is fitting that transformations in the methodologies of research, academic di scourses about these topics, and pedagogical approaches should have occurred in various ways. The intent of the Conversation will be to assess the value of the emic/etic debate in different areas of this multidi sciplinary field and consider whether recent versions of this debate can further new directions for research (or new approaches to teaching on women/gender).

The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) in collaboration with KAFA ("Enough Violence and Exploitation"), an organization that works on combating violence and exploitation of women and children, organized a consciousness-raising event from November 3-5, 2008. This event was part of the 16-day activism campaign against gender-based violence KAFA launched to mobilize the youth and general public to support efforts to combat domestic violence.

First names have been studied in different settings to identify specific patterns of culture and interaction (Goodenough, 1965), or changes in the political and social arena (Bulliett, 1978). Very few studies, however, have addressed the question of whether names represent ideological structures. This article summarizes the findings of a study on ideology and gender in a specific cultural context by examining first names.