Many contributors have access to national newsletters, list-serves, and journals for key membership associations in the area of development and women's rights. Promotional packets sent to contributors who will distribute to their constituencies. Events being scheduled at key development conferences and in Washington, DC and at the United Nations. Extensive review mailing targeting feminist, development and education journals
IRENE TINKER has served on the faculties of Howard
University, Federal City College, American University, and the
University of California/Berkeley. She has conducted research in
fifty-four countries and lectured in thirty-six. Tinker was
director of the office of International Science at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, where Margaret Mead
taught her about lobbying the UN, and she co-founded the Wellesley
Center for Research on Women and founded the International Center
for Research on Women and the Equity Policy Center.
ARVONNE S. FRASER has been Coordinator of the Office of
Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), U.S. representative to the UN Commission on
the Status of Women, and a member of the U.S. delegations to the
first two UN World Conferences on Women 1993 UN World Conference on
Human Rights. She is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert
H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,
where she organized and directed the International Women's Rights
Action Watch (IWRAW) and co-founded the Institute's Center on Women
and Public Policy.
Praise for Developing Power"Through the voices of the women who
shaped international development policy and women's human rights
over the past 30 years, this memoir documents the struggles and
triumphs of the Women in Development movement. This international
history of women's contributions is significant for women and men
in all cultures around the world, including the United States."
—Jimmy Carter, former US President
"This is a 'must-read' book. Yes, these are stories of struggle,
but also of wit, solidarity, humor, fifth-column infiltration of
establishment structures, and soul-uplifting gritty persistence.
They have effectively created the thousand small (and a few big)
revolutions that will cumulatively create a world in which women
and men both bloom, develop, and contribute to making it better.
This is their story. Read it." —Margaret Catley-Carlson, CIDA,
UNICEF, Population Council, Global Water Partnership
"This timely and thoughtful collection, by women leaders around the
globe, highlights the role the UN conferences on women have played
in bringing together the diverse strands of the global women's
movement and providing a platform to advance calls for gender
equality and women's rights. Contributors offer deep insights from
their experiences in different struggles—inside government, the
academy and in local, national, and international women's groups.
As we approach the ten-year review of the commitments made to women
at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, this reminds us
of the urgent need to develop strategies to hold governments and
the international community accountable for keeping their promises
to the world's women." —Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM
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