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Contents Preface 1 Gender justice citizenship and development 2 Womens voices in world religions 3 The concept of welfare and the women 4 The Hindutva appropriation of female 5 The interplay of language religion and ethnicity 6 Fundamentalism and the position of women in Confucianism 7 Womens equal right to freedom of religion 8 The paradox of the new Islamic women 9 Religious reservations to the convention on the elimination of all forms of women discrimination Bibliography IndexThe term religion refers both to the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction Religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system but it is more socially defined than personal convictions and it entails specific behaviors respectively Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought unseen being person or object that is considered to be supernatural sacred divine or of the highest truthThere are several notable issues relating to gender and religion These include both religious comment on secular society and views regarding traditional forms of religious communities themselves Internal religious issues include the roles and rights of men and women in religious government education and worship They also include beliefs about the gender of deities and religious figures and about the origin and meaning of human gender The earliest documented religions and some contemporary animist religions involved deification of characteristics of the natural world These spirits are typically but not always gendered jacket 296 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Incorporating gender into information and communication technology 2 Liberal feminism 3 Womens work in a globalized economy 4 Challenging gendered structure feminizing unions 5 The nature of technological change 6 Gender and grassroots leadership 7 An era of economic transformation 8 The development narrative and globalisation 9 Identity within cultural relativism Bibliography IndexInformation Technology IT comprises a set of technologies that actively process information rather than merely storing or transmitting it Computers the key hardware and non-material software systems form its essential core Even in nations which are in economic terms relatively poor IT substantially changes the traditional production process as well as the marketable goods and services producedIt is precisely in the context of womens autonomy and choice in poorer countries and in less affluent communities that it is now pertinent to focus on the impact of information technology on employment opportunities There are understandable misgivings even among some concerned philosophers about an emphasis on gender as it distracts attention from other elements that determine vulnerability in the world of paid work It is not just a question of women It is a much larger issue of a new technological basis of economic and cultural exploitation which is urging for a new spirit of democratic resistance against what is undoubtedly a considerably changed model of capitalist growth and integration jacket 280 pp.