Rural development in Brazil: Are we practising feminism or gender?

Sardenberg, Cecília Maria Bacellar; Costa, Ana Alice Alcântara; Passos, Elizete Silva

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“…This happened in 1998, when we undertook a regional gender in development programme for a state agency with IFAD support in Bahia involving women in rural areas (Sardenberg et al, 1999;Sardenberg, 2000). We created women's groups and promoted gender awareness training to women community leaders and project personnel, elaborating special articles and training materials (Costa, 1999).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Those dealing with issues of gender relations and women's collective empowerment, particularly combating domestic violence against women, were seen as interfering with local culture and 'meddling' in family affairs. Indeed, we were told that we should be doing 'gender, not feminism' (Sardenberg et al, 1999). In time, despite arguing that our approach was in tune the way women's empowerment was outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action and thus with IFAD's perspectives on gender, we were asked to leave the project.…”

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Women's Empowerment in Brazil: Tensions in discourse and practice

Sardenberg¹

2010

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Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg reflects upon the experience of NEIM -the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies of the Federal University of Bahia -in engaging with 'empowerment'. NEIM has been involved in 27 years of activism in order to bring about changes, both structural as well as in women's individual lives, towards insuring greater autonomy for women and our increasing participation in decision-making. She opens up questions about how to engage more directly and more openly with the concept of empowerment, and considering its theoretical underpinnings and their methodological as well as wider political implications.

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Women's Empowerment in Brazil: Tensions in discourse and practice

Sardenberg¹

2010

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“…The major thrust towards a greater emphasis on women's issues in the subúrbio culminated in 1987, with the mobilisations that coincided with the writing of a new constitution for the country. At this time, women's groups all over Brazil staged demonstrations to demand the inclusion of women's rights in the constitution (Alvarez 1990;Sardenberg and Costa 1994). In Salvador, as in other major cities, a women's forum was created and the different groups and organisations that joined it -among them AMPLA -participated in debates, petitions, and rallies.…”

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“…But working in a 'Western' environment does not necessarily grant acceptance of work efforts towards gender equality. I myself have been accused of trying to 'destroy the unity of the family' while working with rural women in the hinterlands of Bahia, Brazil (cf Sardenberg et al 1998;Sardenberg 2000)…”

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Negotiating Culture in the Promotion of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Latin America

Sardenberg

2012

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Summary Culture interacts with development in multiple ways. However the importance of culture within development should not be seen as translating to crystallising and solidifying its meaning or providing definitive ideas of what works. In this paper, I look at the relevance of culture to the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment, and examine how some women's movements in Latin America have negotiated and contested meanings around culture and as a result have re‐signified gender values, attitudes and behaviours. The example of Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo questions the cultural construct of motherhood and the traditional role of the mother caring for the family within the home, and the women's neighbourhood action based in Bahia, Brazil which I look at contests and extends the notion of that domestic space. The importance of deconstructing and fighting against stereotypical images and patriarchal views of women in order to uphold gender rights is clear from the examples I look at on domestic violence, sex worker violence and the Black Women's Movement's struggle against sexist and racist images. In conclusion I argue that in employing ‘transformatory thinking’ the women's groups that I look at in this paper have worked together as women to contest and confront accepted cultural meanings and by doing so have begun to re‐structure the gender order and promote gender equality.

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“…In the process of the research, it became clear that the project was weaker in some areas than others. These weaknesses can be understood within a framework of practical and strategic gender needs (Moser 1993), and have been highlighted as important across a range of projects and programmes (Regmi and Fawcett 1999;Sardenberg et al 1999). 'Practical gender needs' refer to the immediate necessities that women perceive themselves as lacking in a specifi c context, which would enable them to perform the activities expected of them: for example, a health post, vegetable gardens, or a water pump.…”

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Climate Change and Gender Justice

Terry¹

2009

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Contents 10.1 Governing structures of the solar home system in Chokoria, Bangladesh 13.1 Women delegations in the UNFCCC negotiations Tables 4.1 Capacities and vulnerabilities of rural women in the context of the 1997-8 El Niño disaster 5.1 Indicators of vulnerability at the rural household level (illustrative) 5.2 Women's representation in subcommittees for disaster management 10 CLIMATE CHANGE AND GENDER JUSTICE 2. See the articles by;

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Rural development in Brazil: Are we practising feminism or gender?

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Women's Empowerment in Brazil: Tensions in discourse and practice

Women's Empowerment in Brazil: Tensions in discourse and practice

Negotiating Culture in the Promotion of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Latin America

Climate Change and Gender Justice

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