Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking information on women's issues in developing nations, including the sex trade, sweatshops, reproduction and fertility, social activism, and sociology of gender. Books and online resources listed here are a sampling of those available.
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Gateways to Women and Third World Politics/Issues -- The Sex Trade: Slavery and Prostitution -- Sweatshops: Organization and Human Rights -- Reproduction and Fertility -- Social Activism: Labor and Worker Rights -- Sociology of Gender: Non-Western Views -- Busse Library Resources
Gateways to Women and Third World Politics/Issues
- Third World Network: Women's Rights and Gender Issues
- The United Nations and the Status of Women: Setting the Global Gender Agenda
- United Nations Population Fund (UNPF)
- Violence Against Women: Amnesty International
- Women Watch: The UN Gateway to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
- Women's Rights: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
The Sex Trade: Slavery and Prostitution
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
- "Crime and Servitude: An Expose of the Traffic in Women for Prostitution from the Newly Independent States." Report prepared by Gillian Caldwell, Steven Galster, Nadia Steinzor. Global Survival Network. -- focus on former USSR nations
- Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking (IAST)
- "Nepal Sex Trade." TED Case Study #509. By Erin Richardson.
- "South-East Asia : Sex Industry Thrives, but States Look Away." By Johanna Son. InterPress News Service. (8/19/98)
- Trafficking in Persons: Office of Women in Development, USAID
- Trafficking in Women and Children: The U.S. and International Response. By Francis T. Miko, Congressional Research Service
- Trafficking of Women and Girls: Human Rights Watch
- UNICEF: Second World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, December 2001
Sweatshops: Organization and Human Rights
- Asia Monitor Resource Center
- Behind the Label.org -- campaign against sweatshops
- Campaign for Labor Rights
- The Clean Clothes Campaign
- CorpWatch.org: Labor
- Feminists Against Sweatshops
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- International Labor Rights Forum
- Maquila Solidarity Network -- Asia and Latin America focus
- Amanitare: The African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- CONRAD: Contraceptive Research and Development Program
- Family Health International (FHI)
- Planned Parenthood
- Population Action International
- Preventing HIV Infection and Promoting Reproductive Health: UNFPA
- UNICEF Statistics: Maternal Health
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): 2000 Annual Report -- addresses reproductive rights and UN programs
- "The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries." By Rodolfo A. Bulatao. The RAND Foundation, c1998.
Social Activism: Labor and Worker Rights
- Global Fund for Women
- Rights for Working Women -- International Labor Rights Forum
- South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET)
- Women Workers -- Human Rights Watch
- WomensNet: Economy -- focus on South Africa
Sociology of Gender: Non-Western views
- Different National and Ethnic Feminisms: Feminist Theory Website -- international coverage of issue
- Women's Studies: Feminism and Gender -- directory of resources from intute
- Annual review of sociology / HM1 .A763
- Dwyer, Daisy Hilse. A Home divided: women and income in the Third World / 1988. HQ1870.9 .H65 1988
- Johnson-Odim, Cheryl. Expanding the boundaries of women's history / c1992. HQ1870.9 .E97 1992
- Leghorn, Lisa. Women's worth: sexual economics and the world of women / 1981. HQ1381 .L32 1981
- Lindsay, Beverly. Comparative perspectives of Third World women / 1980. HQ1870.9 .C65
- Munhall, Patricia L. The emergence of women into the 21st century / c1995. HQ1154 .E454 1995
- Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Women healing earth: Third World women on ecology / c1996. HQ1233 .W595 1996
- Waylen, Georgina. Gender in Third World politics / 1996. JF60 .W39 1996
- Williams, Mary E. Human rights: opposing viewpoints / c1998. JC571 .H76968 1998
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