Isis / Women in Action / Table of Contents: 2:1999
 

Women in Action  •  Table of Contents

2/1999       Focus: Women and Work

 
25th Anniversary Special
Coming a Long Way Together: Isis and Marilee Karl

An attempt to chronicle the long herstory of the world's first international women's information-documentation centre and one of the women behind it

 
Isis: A Mosaic of Stories

A mosaic of letters and cartoons from the women who communicated with Isis International in the late 1970s

 
Simply Isis

Isis International takes various feminist paths in its journey from Rome to Manila.
by Susanna George

 
From Geneva to Kampala: Isis WICCE Continues to Bring Women Together

From its original base in the North to its home in the South, the struggle for women's emancipation goes on for our sisters in Isis-WICCE.
by Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng

 
Moving Around With Our Feet Firmly on the Ground

Sisters in Isis-Santiago describe how they have adapted and responded to the challenges posed by the women's movement.
by Ana Maria Portugal

 
Celebrating 25 Years of Networking

A sister information network illustrates why info-com work is fundamental to the global women's movement
by Anne S. Walker

 

food security section

Pitting Corporations Against Small Farmers

Who will benefit from the Agreement on Agreement on Agriculture proposed by WTO? Aileen Kwa says anyone bu the smallfarmers

 

ict section

ICTs: Impact on Women and Proposals for a Women's Agenda

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz points out some key issues to consider in analysing the use of new infomration and communication technology vis-a-vis the women's movement

 

media section

Can Converging Media be Controlled?

The merging of traditional mediums of mass communication and the new information and communication technologies present new challenges
Lilian Mercado Carreon

 

health update

The Wages of Work: Occupational Health and Women

by Melody Kemp, author of the upcoming book "Working for Life"

 

country report: nepal

Nepal: The Right to Land is the Right to Livelihood

Samjhana Shrestha reports how ensuring land rights could be the crucial link to achieving food security.

 

reviews

Advocating Feminist Strategies in Economic Reforms

A review of Gender Equity and Economic Reforms: Engendering Policy Critique and Advocacy of Philippine NGOs by Patricia Fe C. Gonzales

 

 
Cover: Women In Acton, 2:1999
 

editorial

Women and Work
 
Telenetworking: New Opportunities for Malaysian Women

Cecilia Ng writes about a recent study exploring if networking is boon or bane for women

 
The New Fantastic World of Work

Leti Boniol and Annie Santoalla write why "Flexibilisation" is a no-win situation for women workers

 
Deregulation and Women's Labor

Deregulation spares no one in the labour force, even women in the world's second largest economy

 
Globalisation and Women's Employment in Asia

Jayati Ghosh says that there is a continuing increase in the unpaid labour of Asian women, no thanks to globalisation

 
Sail On, Women

Being in the sex trade is not, and will never be an empowered choice.
by jean Enriquez

 
Together, Sex Workers Speak With a Louder Voice

It may not be a complete safeguard but Cambodian women in the sex trade attempt at organising to protect their ranks
by Debra Boyce

 
Life in Italy is no Dolce Vita

Charito Basa, a former Isis staff shares the woes of a migrant's life

 
Working for Disney
is no Fairy Tale

Subcontractors of most multinational companies continue to violate workers' rights. Walt Disney is no exception.

 
Double Burden of Work, Tradition Wears Down Hill Women

Poor and low-caste women in India battle the deadly combination of environmental degradation, poverty, and tradition

 
Employment Status of Female Employees of Taiwan

The figures say it all

 

one on one

Why are women not visible in trade unions?

Irene Xavier, President of Sahabat Wanita, the only national organisation of women workers in Malaysia tells us why.

 

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about the magazine

Women In Action covers a broad range of issues affecting women globally, but focusing on the particular needs and concerns of women in the Global South, and forwarding a progressive perspective tempered by the experiences of the thirld world women's movements. As a triannual, the magazine comes out in print form every four months of the year, and circulated worldwide with the most number of copies going to Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and South America. With this online version of Women In Action, we hope to reach more women globally particularly those who are in a position to share Women In Action with individual women and women's organization who do not have access to electronic networking.

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