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African
Gender Research in the New Millennium: Perspectives, Directions and Challenge,
Cairo,
8–10 April, 2002
CODESRIA,
in collaboration with the Arab Research Centre,
hosted a three-day
symposium in Cairo, Egypt, from 8 to 10 April, 2002 on the theme of African
Gender Research in the New Millennium: Perspectives, Directions and
Challenges. The symposium
was
designed to serve as a multidisciplinary forum for taking stock of the state
of gender studies and gender research across Africa, as well as
to map out an innovative agenda for new directions with
regard to themes, methodologies, concepts and perspectives. The symposium
was structured in a manner as to allow for an intensive and critical dialogue
on the range of issues that
were discussed. For this purpose, participation
was encouraged from different methodological, conceptual, generational and
disciplinary backgrounds.
Papers presented at the symposium
fell
under one of the following broad sub-theme:'
- Concepts, methodologies and
paradigms
- Gender relations and social
institutions / processes (family, education, health, religion,
culture, law)
- Access to and control of
resources
- Gender and socio-political
dynamics (violence, conflicts, democratisation, citizenship
etc.)
- Gender, the economy and
globalisation
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