Gender & Development gives me tremendous benefit in my job. It has changed the way I understand women's concerns

Mesfin Shiferaw, Federal Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission, Ethiopia

Working in Gender and Development (WiGaD) Series

The WiGaD series brings together themed selections of the best articles from the journal Gender & Development, and other Oxfam publications repackaged in book form to reach a wide audience of development practitioners and policy makers, and students and academics.

Titles in this series present the theory and practice of gender-oriented development in a way that records experience, describes good practice, and shares information about resources. As such, they contribute to and review current thinking on the gender dimensions of particular development and relief issues.

Books in the series

Climate Change and Gender Justice
Edited by Geraldine Terry

Published 9 November 2009
Paperback £14.95

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Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender issues shape vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and addresses some of the gender dimensions of adapting to, and mitigating, climate change.

The case studies it contains are drawn from several regions. They illustrate how gendered vulnerability varies across contexts, and describe practical initiatives to reduce vulnerability, with an emphasis on promoting gender-justice in and through adaptation efforts. Examples of mitigation initiatives in developing countries, such as carbon sequestration and sustainable energy projects, are also examined through a gender lens. Contributors discuss how gender-equality objectives should be integrated into international climate negotiations and agreements, and how poor women have become empowered to express their adaptation needs.

This diverse and stimulating collection raises a question: should feminists and gender advocates focus on working within current, narrowly-defined, official policy approaches, or is it necessary to reconfigure ‘sustainable development’ with gender justice as a core feature?


HIV and AIDS
Edited by Alice Welbourn and Joanna Hoare

Published: March 2008
Paperback £14.95

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This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea.

The impacts of HIV on women and men across the world are devastating and wide-ranging. Girls may have to drop out of school to look after sick relatives, boys to earn money. The death of working-age adults can mean that surviving family members struggle to get by, with grandparents shouldering the burden of looking after orphaned grandchildren, often in dire poverty. Young women may have to resort to sex work, and other risky survival strategies to support themselves and their families. Young men are growing up with ideas about masculinity that include violence and the sexual domination of women, and would be ostracised by peers if they acted otherwise, contributing to the spread of HIV.

The contributors analyse these contexts, exploring the links between HIV, AIDS, gender inequality, and poverty. They present accounts of successful interventions, recording experience, describing good practice, and sharing information about resources. This book is essential reading for development practitioners and policy makers involved in responding to the HIV and AIDS crisis.

Gender-based Violence
Edited by Geraldine Terry, and Joanna Hoare

Published: September 2007
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This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle gender-based violence in various sectors, world regions, and socio-political contexts. Articles cover a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including femicide, or the murder of women because they are women, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, the sexual exploitation of girls at school, and trafficking for prostitution.

The case studies are drawn from South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America, and a detailed list of resources completes the volume. This collection of articles will be useful to development and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers, and academics, including both gender specialists and non-gender specialists alike.

Focus on Gender (FOG) series

The Focus on Gender series makes available each thematic issue of Gender & Development, to the end of 2005, in book form. To view all books in this series click here.

Other Oxfam gender publications

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