Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschul-schriften.        € 98,00

While numerous studies have focused on gender dynamics in sexual relations, the issue of sexual agency has barely been addressed in South Africa. This qualitative study aims to explore South African rural black women’s agency in intimate partnerships at a time of transition and amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It explores whether there is some empirical evidence for what is a common perception, namely the lack of agency that rural black women have in negotiating their sexual relationships and the impact that this has on the risk of HIV/AIDS. One of the assumptions made was that age is a critical variable because of the changing dynamics of time figurations in gender practice. The author suggests that in non-violent partnerships the decisive variable for a woman’s capacity for agency both in terms of decision-making on having sex as well as their potential for HIV self-protection strategies is marital status and not age.

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Angewandte Genderforschung/Gender Research Applied, Bd./Vol. 3, Peter Lang Verlag.        € 29,10

This book provides a critical and historical perspective on the ways concepts of "gender" and "engineering" have been socially constructed and the relationship to the masculinist image of engineering that has endured over time. To alter this situation, the authors in this volume propose that the forces of analyses move from the under-representation of women in engineering to an investigation of the more relational concept of gender and how gender and gender relations are embedded in the entire engineering enterprise.

Angewandte Genderforschung/Gender Research Applied, Bd./Vol. 1, Peter Lang Verlag.                € 28,80

Kompaktwissen Gender in Organisationen führt kurz und bündig in das Mainstream-Thema Gender ein. Das Buch deckt den Wissensbedarf der Praxis zu den aktuellen Schlüsselbegriffen des Genderthemas und informiert über anwendungsreife Ergebnisse und bereits erprobte Methoden der Gendertorschung in Organisationen. Erfolgreiche Beispiele aus der Praxis von Wirt-schaftsunternehmen, der Hochschule und aus Verwaltungen demonstrieren die Anwendung des Genderthemas. Mit den Themen Wirtschaft und Familie, Gender in der Personalführung, Genderlogik und Genderkompetenz in Organisationen schlägt das Buch eine Brücke zwischen Genderforschung und Organisationen und unterstützt die Umsetzung des Genderthemas in modernen Organisationen.

Innovations in economy, organisations and health within
the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Isabell Welpe, Britta Thege, Shirley Henderson (eds.)
Verlagsgruppe Peter Lang 2004
ISBN: 3-631-52599-0, € 68,00

The constitutional and legislative framework within the South African Development Community (SADC) provides a positive institutional environment to ensure mainstreaming gender concerns.  However the translation and implementation of the gender perspective is at times lacking. Both agenda setting as an instrument of change management and reorganisation procedures are not used enough in the fields of economy, organisation and health.  These three areas are crucial partly due to their interconnectivity and also because of their vital importance to the successful sustainable development of SADC nations. This volume results from the findings of a conference hosted by the Institute of Women and Gender Studies, Kiel, Germany, and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, Pretoria, South Africa.