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Gender
Warriors Work Plan
Summary:
• The project is aimed at facilitating a broader analysis of what
gender oppression means in various contexts, such as domestic violence,
child sexual abuse and refugee rights and how it affects various communities.
We envision developing an educational tool that can be used by groups
working on gender rights to confront and address gender-based issues.
Goals:
• To develop a deeper understanding of gender oppression by analyzing
how gender oppression affects our own work, specifically, domestic violence,
child sexual abuse and refugee rights
• To develop an educational tool that can be used by any individual
or organization working to combat gender oppression.
Objectives and/or outputs – options
include:
• Posters
• Brochure,
• PowerPoint presentation, and/or
• Workshop on gender oppression during the New Voices August conference
Time Frame:
• Sept – October: Research gender oppression; read assigned
and other articles
• November: Exchange information, and find commonalities that we
can use for our educational tool.
• December: Comment on each other’s work; individually develop
ideas about what we want the final product to look like
• January: Bring our ideas to the next New Voices conference, where
we will start working on the final product
• January – July: Continue working on and fine-tune the final
product.
Resources Needed:
• Literature on gender issues. We have identified the following
sources of information and are in the process of looking for other sources:
a.
Bolin, Anne. In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage . New York
: Bergin & Garvey, 1988.
b. Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Liberation: A Movement
Whose Time Has Come . New York : World View Forum, 1992.
c. Amadiume, Ifi, Male Daughters, Female Husbands,
Avon: The Bath Press, 1987
d. The Feminization of American Culture, New York:
Avon, 1977
e. Nanda, Serena, Neither Men nor Women: The Hijras
of India, The Wadsworth Modern Anthropology Library, ed. Peggy Adams.
Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990
• Workshops/brochures/educational tools on gender issues to use as
a model Communication/Accountability
plan:
• We have created a separate yahoo email account for facilitating
communication and the exchange of information. We all plan to check this
account at least once a week.
• If something urgent comes up we email each other at our work addresses
and also call each other.
• We will schedule conference calls when needed.
Outcome:
• Better understanding of gender oppression, and a more sensitive
approach to these issues as they affect us personally and in the workplace
• Enabling others to understand the subtleties of gender oppression
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