PANEL 5.07

Movements in gender / gendered movements

Coordination:
Emezat Hailu, Institute of Gender Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia;
Thera Mjaaland, University of Bergen, Norway;
Anne Britt Flemmen , University of Tromso, Norway.

Gender equality and women’s rights have become key issues in national and international development policies, and a main concern in the ‘Millennium effort’ to eradicate poverty. We want to explore development policy and practice, and to scrutinize encounters between national/international and local understandings of gender, gender equality and women's rights in the Ethiopian context where gender sensitive laws have been implemented, and institutional bodies on gender are incorporated on all levels of governmental structure. Questions to be asked are therefore how the legal and juridical provisions, and the mainstreaming of gender, have enabled movements in gender relations, and how divergent frames of reference (e.g. government policies versus more normative understandings of gender) are mediated, negotiated, contested across economic, socio-cultural, familial/interpersonal, legal, political, psychological and spiritual/religious domains.
We invite contributions that explore the underlying assumptions on gender in Ethiopia in relation to national and international development policy and practice, and those that explore gendered movements and processes of change in gender relations, from a wide range of empirical studies within Ethiopia. Attentive to the fact that gender often continues to mean ‘women’, we also encourage contributions that incorporate ‘men’ and their involvement in gendered movements and changes in gender relations.

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SELECTED PAPERS

Mrs

AGAREDECH JEMANEH

Gender and Election in News Papers Narratives: The Case of Ethiopia

Dr.

BEYENE ATAKILTE

Narratives and changes in marriage and fertility patterns in Shashemene

Mrs

DE ROSIS Carolina

Women Living with HIV as Agents of Social Change

Mrs

MJAALAND Thera

Mapping decision-making; the case of women’s contraceptive use in the Tigrayan context

Mrs

MUELLER Angela M.

Can Substantial Change be noticed in Female Roles on the Level of Social- and Self-Perception of Female Bodies and Bodily Borders in the Ethiopian Context?

Ms

TIGEST K. ABYE

The Emancipation of Ethiopian Women: a stride to equlity

Ato

YONAS TAFESSE

Women and Land Rights in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are advised to submit their paper to the Organizing Committee
before September 30, 2012
.

Papers will be published as pre-proceedings on the website, under each panel section.

Papers should be limited to ca. 5000 words or 30,000 signs (including spaces).

Papers have to be submitted online, by uploading under each panel section (go to the page of the panel in which your paper is selected and upload your text).

Papers can also be sent to the Organizing Committee (organization@ices18.org) with specification of panel number.

Submitted papers will be directly transmitted to the panel organizers and published online after approval by the panel organizers.

Guidelines to authors for formatting papers:

Transilteration systems for Ethiosemitic languages


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