Vol 9, #3, May 2008

Articles
 Effects of Protégé-mentor Gender Mix on Organisational Commitment
By David E. Okurame

The Mauritian Election of 2005:
An Unprecedented Increase of Women in Parliament
 By Mi Yung Yoon and Sheila Bunwaree

Emergence of Women from 'Private' to 'Public':
A Narrative of Power Politics from Mizoram
By Anup Shekhar Chakraborty

Gender Dimensions in Geo-spatial Security Research:
Disciplinary Confrontations
By Clementine Ewokolo Burnley , Nathalie Stephenne , Mercè Agüera Cabo

Organizational Role Stress Indices Affecting Burnout Among Nurses
By Jinky Leilanie Lu

Creating Alternative and Demedicalized Spaces: Testimonial Narrative on Disability, Culture, and Racialization
 By Parin Dossa

Dilemmas of Islamic and Secular Feminists and Feminisms
 By Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Deconstructing Islamization in Pakistan: Sabiha Sumar Wages Feminist Cinematic Jihad through a Documentary Lens
 By Rahat Imran

The Sita Syndrome: Examining the Communicative Aspects of Domestic Violence from a South Asian Perspective
 By Archana Pathak Bhatt

Violence against Women in Northern Uganda: The Neglected Health Consequences of War
 By Helen Liebling-Kalifani, Ruth Ojiambo-Ochieng, Angela Marshall, Juliet Were-Oguttu, Seggane Musisi, Eugene Kinyanda

Male Identity and Female Space in the Fiction of Ugandan Women Writers
By Abasi Kiyimba

In Two Different Worlds: How Malawian Girls Experience Schooling
 By Margaret Asalele Mbilizi

More than Books: A Study of Women's Participation in Community Libraries in Rural Nepal
 By Kirsty Martin and Sita Adhikari

Urban Women's Participation in the Construction Industry: An Analysis of Experiences from Zimbabwe
 By Edward Mutandwa, Noah Sigauke and Charles P. Muganiwa

Appropriate Technology for Cassava Processing in Nigeria: User's Point of View
By Stella O Odebode

Law, Women and Health in Nigeria
 By Philomena I. Ozo-Eson

Essays
A Call to Political and Social Activism: The Jeremiadic Discourse of Maria Miller Stewart, 1831-1833
By Willie J. Harrell, Jr.

A Tour to a Site of Genocide: Mothers, Bones and Borders
 By Olivera Simic

Meanings of Weighing Female Patients and their Clinical Implications
 By Zenobia C. Y. Chan

Book Reviews
 The Hidden Giants. Sethanne Howard.
Reviewed by Maluka D. Muñoz

Hijab, Meaning, Identity, Otherization and Politics: British Muslim Women. Saied R. Ameli and Arzu Merali.
 Reviewed by Alyssa Beall

Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement. Reger, Jo (ed.).
Reviewed by Anna Feigenbaum

When Sex Became Gender. Shira Tarrant.
 Reviewed by Catherine R. Mintler

Feminism. June Hannam.
 Reviewed by Aditi Mitra, Ph.D.

Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment in Legalized Prostitution. Mary Lucille Sullivan.
 Reviewed by Nnenna Lynn Okeke

Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work. E. C. Brooks.
 Reviewed by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Ph.D.

Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman (eds.).
 Reviewed by Susan Harper-Bisso

Trans/Forming Feminisms: Trans-Feminist Voices Speak Out. Krista Scott-Dixon, ed.
 Reviewed by Dan Irving

Letters/Replies
 Reply to Stacy
 By Susan Hogan

The reply above refers to the following book review:
Stacy Lockerbie, JIWS, Vol. 9. No. 1. November 2007. pp.319-321 Review of Conception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood. Susan Hogan.

Spanish Translation
 La pérdida de la tierra y el activismo de las mujeres garífunas en la costa norte de Honduras
 By Keri Vacanti Brondo (Traducción: Martha J. Kantor y Federico Gómez)

The Spanish translation above is of an article that first appeared in English in JIWS, Vol. 9. No. 1. November 2007, Land Loss and Garifuna Women's Activism on Honduras' North Coast.