Perspectives: Research Notes & News is published twice a year. Each newsletter features a research summary of a faculty member, graduate student or other specialist in the field of the women, gender and international development. It also provides information on activities of faculty and students at UIUC, conferences, publications and job openings related to gender and international development. Newsletters are posted in pdf format on this web page, and printed subscriptions are available at no charge by following the information at the end of the newsletter or emailing Kathy Martin at the WGGP Program Office: kcmartin@illinois.edu

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April 2009: Silk Moth Ecology and Silk Production Involving Poor Women in Madagascar by Maminirina Randrianandrasana; Beit el-Hanane: Home of Tenderness: Maison de la tendresse); Gains and Costs When an Ethanol Plant Moves into Town; 100 Mothers Literacy Program: My Visions for Mothers in Afghanistan, and more.

October 2008: Understanding Consumption and Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Marketplaces by Madhu Viswanathan; Global Food Crisis Still Hovering in the Background by Gale Summerfield; Students working with Engineers Without Borders: Finding solutions to water supply and health issues in Nigeria by Cheryl Wyant; and more.

April 2008: Designing Disability Rights:Understanding the Role that Disability Organizations Play in Transforming a Rights-Based Approach to Disability in South Asia by Jennifer Baldwin; Engendering the BIofuels Debate by Gale Summerfield; Women Legislators and Government Policies: A Global View by Michael Brun and Marianne Ferber; and more.

November 2007 [Short Issue]: Director's Notes; Workshop on Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security; Council on Gender Equity

April 2007: A Dual Epidemic of Sexual Violence Identified by an HIV-1 Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Where Can We Go from Here? by Russell Horwitz; Understanding Domestic Violence within Cultural Context: The Community of Chari in Southern Peru by Mirta Paola Leon Arizmendi; and more.

November 2006: Why the World Isn't Flat Enough: Bringing more women contributors and beneficiaries into the information society by Nancy Hafkin; From My Field Notebook: A gender dimension of an ongoing dissertation by Isidore Lobnibe; and more.

April 2006: New Forms of Corporate Social Communication by Williams, Aguilera, Rupp and Conley; Cheers and Tears: Cooperative Conflict within the Cotton Household in Southwest Burkina Faso by Batamaka Some; and more.

December 2005: Between Islam and Feminism: New Politcal Transformations and Movements in Morocco by Zakia Salime; Doing Gender in Africa by Joy Williams-Black; and more.

April 2005: Gender Impacts of Programs that Pay Children to Attend School in Bangladesh by Mary Arends-Kuenning; Impact of Gender Innovation Fund on Family Life in Cambodia by Rosintan Panjaitan-Drioadisuryo; and more.

December 2004: Migrant Women in China by Wu Qing; and more.

May 2004: Special Issue: Highlighting proceedings of the Spring 2004 WGGP Symposium on Gender and Human Security: Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest, March 17-18, 2004.

December 2003: Gender and Human Security: Old Ideas, New Label?; Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals: Promises to Keep; Feminist Africa: An Introduction; Report on International Congress in Morocco; and more.

April 2003: Womb as Battlefield: Nationalism and Population Control in Contemporary Rural China by Junjie Chen ; Reinventing Globalization: Reflections on the AWID Forum; Report on World Bank Conference on Disability and Development; and more.

October 2002: Highlights from NCRW Conference on Gender Dimensions of Human Security; and more.

March 2002: Indian Women's Experience of Household Labor: Oppression or Fulfillment; and more.

November 2001: Demand and Supply Factors Determining Contraceptive Use in Tanzania; and more.

April 2001: Women's Employment with Privatization in Tanzania; and more.

December 2000: Women and Family Law in Democratic Republic of Congo; and more.

October 2000: Research Focus, A First Report On The Gender And Agribusiness Project: Two Case Studies; and more.

March 2000: Research Focus, Trafficking Of The Girl Child in India: Human Trading For Economic Gains; and more.

Feburary 2000: Research Focus, Mexican Women 's Role in a Grassroots Housing Initiative; and more.

December 1999: Research Focus, Issues in Methodology:Action-Oriented, Participatory Research or Academic Research; and more.