Project MUSE®: Gendered Perspectives on International Development - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Gendered Perspectives on International Development.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2021) through current issueLatest Articles: Gendered Perspectives on International DevelopmentTWOProject MUSE®Gendered Perspectives on International Development1947-47761947-4768Latest articles in Gendered Perspectives on International Development. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Influence of Gender in Refugee Camp Safety: A Case Study of Moria and Kara Tepe in Lesvos, Greece
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/838061
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The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of displacement, with a record 70.4 million people forcibly
displaced across the globe. Of these, 20.2 million are classified as refugees by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR ("Mid-Year Trends" 2019,
3).
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The term "refugee" was created by the 1951 Geneva Convention, defined as "someone who is unable
or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for
reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion" (
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallThe Influence of Gender in Refugee Camp Safety: A Case Study of Moria and Kara Tepe in Lesvos, Greece2021-11-24text/htmlen-USThe Influence of Gender in Refugee Camp Safety: A Case Study of Moria and Kara Tepe in Lesvos, Greece2021-11-242021TWOProject MUSE®1125542026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-11-24The Role of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Gender Norms on Women's Health: A Conceptual Framework
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/838062
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Women's social roles (as caregivers) and bodies (when menstruating and pregnant) are intimately and
critically dependent on adequate and safe water and sanitation access. However, their needs are often
invisible in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) policy making and programs (Caruso et al. 2015). This article shows that women's exposure to WASH-related
diseases in many parts of the world is mediated through unequal power relations in the household and
cultural scripts that enforce bodily comportment (see Figure 1).
Gender Perspective on WASH-Related Diseases.The framework proposed here
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallThe Role of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Gender Norms on Women's Health: A Conceptual Framework2021-11-24text/htmlen-USThe Role of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Gender Norms on Women's Health: A Conceptual Framework2021-11-242021TWOProject MUSE®3166812026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-11-24COVID-19 and MENA: Governance, Geopolitics, and Gender
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/838063
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This exploratory article highlights the gendered institutional and governance features in countries of the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), features that have shaped the impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, on citizens, residents, and economies. As such, different categories of women would be affected in different ways. The pandemic is global in nature, and has spread because of certain aspects of contemporary globalization, such as increased international travel, but also because of poverty, social exclusion, unequal health care, or underresourced health care systems. The severity of COVID-19's impact in any country could be mitigated by the early processing and diffusion of information, effective
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallCOVID-19 and MENA: Governance, Geopolitics, and Gender2021-11-24text/htmlen-USCOVID-19 and MENA: Governance, Geopolitics, and Gender2021-11-242021TWOProject MUSE®1257602026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-11-24A Comparison of Zika Incidence and Access to Reproductive Healthcare in El Salvador and Cuba During the Latin American Zika Epidemic
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842522
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The 2015–2016 Zika epidemic in Latin America made a powerful impact on the region and was tightly interconnected with women's health care (Alvardo and Schwartz 2017, 26–28). The virus is spread through mosquito transmission as well as sexual intercourse and can lead to severe birth defects in children who are born from infected women (Carabali et al. 2018, 1). This creates extensive implications for women's reproductive and sexual health. Across Latin America, women's health care is ranked low, with restricted access to birth control, abortion, and other family planning services (World Health Organization 2009, 18–20). When considering methods to reduce transmission of an infectious agent, it is important to not
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallA Comparison of Zika Incidence and Access to Reproductive Healthcare in El Salvador and Cuba During the Latin American Zika Epidemic2021-12-31text/htmlen-USA Comparison of Zika Incidence and Access to Reproductive Healthcare in El Salvador and Cuba During the Latin American Zika Epidemic2021-12-312021TWOProject MUSE®806222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-12-31Impacts of AIDS on Women in Uganda
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845596
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In honor of the 40 year history of GPID, we present the following reprint from the Working Papers Series. Selected because it is in conversation with the new research articles in this volume, papers published as GPID Reflections illustrate important contributions to feminist scholarship. To revisit other papers from the Working Papers Series visit: https://gencen.isp.msu.edu/resources/papers/past-papers/.Illness and death caused by AIDS are taking a big toll on Ugandan society. The World Health Organization estimates that 20 to 30 percent of the adults in Kampala, the Impacts of AIDS on Women in Uganda capital city of Uganda, are HIV infected (Van De Walle 1990). The national newspaper of Uganda, New Vision
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallImpacts of AIDS on Women in Uganda2022-01-19text/htmlen-USImpacts of AIDS on Women in Uganda2022-01-192022TWOProject MUSE®798322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-01-19Mapping Gender Roles in Family Farm Wheat Production in Central Afghanistan: Evaluating Roles, Constraints, and Opportunities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866197
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Women comprise nearly half the agricultural workforce in Afghanistan (ICARDA 2015). However, the specific roles of women in various value chains are often invisible and poorly understood among development practitioners (Farnworth 2011), especially in settings such as that of rural Afghanistan, where women's work is largely home-based (Wilcox et al. 2015). Considering the importance of wheat to household nutrition and livelihoods in Afghanistan, ignoring the role of these "invisible stakeholders" in the wheat value chain limits potential growth in wheat production and quality (Drucza and Tsegaye 2018). In its National Agriculture Research Strategy for 2018–2028, the Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallMapping Gender Roles in Family Farm Wheat Production in Central Afghanistan: Evaluating Roles, Constraints, and Opportunities2022-09-30text/htmlen-USMapping Gender Roles in Family Farm Wheat Production in Central Afghanistan: Evaluating Roles, Constraints, and Opportunities2022-09-302022TWOProject MUSE®1036022026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-09-30Gendered Civic Epistemology: Knowledge Practices During an Ebola Outbreak in Guinea and Mali
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866198
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a deadly viral disease. In 1976, Ebola was discovered in Central Africa by two consecutive Ebola outbreaks fueled by different Ebola viruses. Most outbreaks larger than 50 people occurred in Central Africa until the 2014 outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. When EVD arrived in Guinea, it was not immediately recognized because of a fragile public health infrastructure with limited means of surveillance and control measures (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2021). The government's slow identification of this unknown and deadly illness occurred while the "nation's public mind" was fixated on a virus that was killing in a spectacular way (Markel 2009). As a result
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallGendered Civic Epistemology: Knowledge Practices During an Ebola Outbreak in Guinea and Mali2022-09-30text/htmlen-USGendered Civic Epistemology: Knowledge Practices During an Ebola Outbreak in Guinea and Mali2022-09-302022TWOProject MUSE®697522026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-09-30Introduction to the 40th Anniversary of Gendered Perspectives on International Development
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869594
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This volume marks a transition in the 40-year history of papers focused on women, gender or sexuality, and international development at Michigan State University. The original series, Michigan State University's (MSU) Women and International Development (WID) Working Papers (1981–2008), was among the first open-access scholarly publications dedicated to promoting research on the links between international development and women's and gender studies. By shifting the name to Gendered Perspectives on International Development Working Papers (2008–2020) we recognized the diverse processes of international development and globalization, and new directions in scholarship on gender relations. Now we mark the transition
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallIntroduction to the 40th Anniversary of Gendered Perspectives on International Development2022-11-10text/htmlen-USIntroduction to the 40th Anniversary of Gendered Perspectives on International Development2022-11-102022TWOProject MUSE®231792026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-11-10Readings in Sexualities from Africa ed. by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869595
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Readings in Sexualities from Africa, edited by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks, with contributions from scholars around the world, offers multiple historical and theoretical interventions for scholars from multiple disciplines. This volume is a reader, or anthology, meaning that it compiles a variety of published research for easy use in the classroom. The contributors to the edited volume consciously rethink sexuality and Africa and in so doing rewrite these terms and their histories. Sexuality as a category of analysis came out of European or Westernized schools of thought and practice, which leads to issues in its articulation, translation, and understanding in a global context. As a result, "a radical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallReadings in Sexualities from Africa ed. by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks (review)2022-11-10text/htmlen-USReadings in Sexualities from Africa ed. by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks (review)2022-11-102022TWOProject MUSE®138002026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-11-10Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? by Stephanie Barrientos (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869596
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Global value chains (GVCs) consist of an assemblage of activities that supermarkets, farmers, and contractors undertake to produce and deliver goods from conception to consumption. GVCs operate through different sociocultural norms and regulatory systems encompassing production, processing, delivering, handling, and consumer satisfaction services. This makes GVCs dynamic supply-and-demand conglomerates that involve multiple workforces, skills, scales, and technologies between sourcing countries and supermarkets. In Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? Stephanie Barrientos presents a compilation of more than two decades of empirical and analytical accounts on gender in global value chains
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/782/image/coversmallGender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? by Stephanie Barrientos (review)2022-11-10text/htmlen-USGender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? by Stephanie Barrientos (review)2022-11-102022TWOProject MUSE®211602026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002022-11-10