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Heike Fleßner
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Lydia Potts
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About this book
Currently, women' sand gen der studies programs exist in many countries around the world. It is a crucial task for the future of this still emerging disci pline to enhance international communication and cooperation between study programs, students, scholars, activists, and professionals. If we consider the ideals and concepts of "emancipation" and "participation" as core principles of women' sand gen der studies, then our global networking requires system atic inclusion of non-western perspectives at all levels of research, teaching, and curriculum development. The international conference "Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies," held at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, from June 28 through July 1,2001, was intended as a step in this direction, bringing together speakers - all represented in this book - from a variety of countries: Poland and Hungary, Great Britain and New Zealand, India and Nepal, South Africa, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen. Although this list might at first appear arbitrary, its composition was both carefully and intentionally constructed. As organizers, we knew that a com paratively sm all conference could not entertain a fully inclusive representa tion of women's and gender studies programs worldwide.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Back Matter
Pages 229-233
About the authors
Heike Fleßner, Ph.D., professor of Social Pedagogy at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany and teaches Social Pedagogy and Women's Gender Studies; Lydia Potts, Ph.D, teaches Political Science, Intercultural Education and Women's and Gender Studies at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg/ Germany.