Podcast: Gender and Health

Liz CookeUncategorized

In our latest podcast, Gender & Development’s Liz Cooke is joined by the guest editors of our March 2021 issue, which focuses on Health. Listen in to find out why a gender lens is important when considering health matters, and to learn about health inequities, COVID-19 and its gendered impact, and building back better after the pandemic. Taking part are: …

Guest editing the Health issue – some reflections

Liz CookeUncategorized

We are thrilled to have had three gender and health specialists – Janice Cooper, Renu Khanna and Sally Theobald – joining us to guest edit the Health issue of G&D. Here, Janice, who is Senior Project Adviser for the Liberia Mental Health Initiative at The Carter Center, shares her thoughts on the experience. When I agreed to join a team …

The ‘Visual Minutes’ of our new Health issue

Liz CookeUncategorized

As we launch our March 2021 issue on Health, we’re delighted to be sharing with you these ‘Visual Minutes’. Also known as a ‘graphic recording’, the minutes are a visual representation of some of the key themes and topics covered in the Health issue of the journal. We hope they inspire you to take a look at what’s inside this …

Our new Health issue

Liz CookeUncategorized

Liz Cooke, of G&D’s editorial team, introduces the March 2021 Health issue of the journal. There could scarcely be a more fitting time to be launching this latest issue of Gender & Development, which is focusing on health. As we were commissioning the issue this time last year, it was becoming clear that the COVID-19 outbreak – declared an international …

Gender and the Climate Crisis

Liz CookeUncategorized

Co-editors Irene Dankelman and Kavita Naidu introduce the Climate Crisis issue of Gender & Development It cannot be ignored any longer: scientific studies on average temperature rises the warming of the oceans, and shrinking snow cover and melting glaciers bring us the message of a profound crisis in our global climate. In November 2020 alone, Central America experienced extremely dangerous Hurricane …

Reimagining International Development

Liz CookeUncategorized

Mary Ann Clements and Caroline Sweetman introduce the new issue… and invite you to listen back to the live launch, here…. Welcome to the Reimagining International Development issue, inspired by an online Conference titled Healing Solidarity: Re-imagining International Development, the brainchild of Mary Ann Clements, guest editor for this issue. This involved almost 2500 activists, practitioners and thinkers interested in re-imagining international development practice, reflecting …

CLOSED Call for Contributions: Health

Caroline SweetmanUncategorized

CALL NOW CLOSED We’ve had some amazing ideas for our Health issue which will be published in March 2021. We’re currently considering them. Global efforts to improve the health of women largely focus on improving sexual and reproductive health and rights, with targets for action. Yet there’s currently a global backlash against women’s rights, particularly affecting women in resource-poor contexts. …

Call for Contributions: Climate Crisis

Caroline SweetmanUncategorized

THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED Announcing our Climate Crisis issue’s Call for Contributions. The issue will be published in November 2020, and the deadline for us to receive ideas for articles is 6th January 2020. Five years after the international community signed the Paris Agreement, committing it to take action, climate crisis is now clearly evident, causing disasters and suffering …