Vol 11, #4, May 2010

Articles
 Power, Structure, Gender Relations and Community-Based Conservation: The Cawswe Study of the Sariska Region, Rajasthan, India
 By Maria Costanza Torri

From Discovery to Dissidence: Honduran Women’s Conceptions and Claims of Human Rights
 By Christine Gervais

Surviving Sexual Violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
 By Susan Bartels, Jennifer Scott, Jennifer Leaning, Denis Mukwege, Robert Lipton and Michael VanRooyen

Poverty Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Selected Issues
By Hazel M. McFerson

Gender Analysis of Women in the Philippine Agriculture and Their Occupational Issues
By Jinky Leilanie Lu

Writing as Resistance: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison
By Joyce Lazarus

A Woman’s Nature: Addressing Violence Against Women through Femininity in Poland
By Abby Drwecki

She Dresses to Attract, He Perceives Seduction: A Gender Gap in Attribution of Intent to Women's Revealing Style of Dress and Its Relation to Blaming the Victims of Sexual Violence
By Avigail Moor

Contradiction and the Role of the ‘Floating Signifier’: Identity and the ‘New Woman’ in Italian Cartoons During Fascism
By Efharis Mascha

Upscaling Community-Arranged Preparedness for Preventing Maternal Mortality in Ghana: A Case Study of Keta and Akatsi Districts of Volta Region
By Chuks J. Mba and Irene K. Aboh

A Survey of Osteoporosis Risk Factors and Practices Among Jordanian Women
By Lubna Abushaikha and Suha Omran*

Determinants of Living Arrangements, Health Status and Abuse among Elderly Women: A Study of Rural Naogaon District, Bangladesh
By Ahmed Mohammad Munsur, Md. Ismail Tareque and K. M. Mustafizur Rahman

A Feminist Struggle? South African HIV Activism as Feminist Politics
By Katarina Jungar and Elina Oinas

Book Reviews
 Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’s Voices
Reviewed by Azza Basarudin

Law in the Service of Legitimacy: Gender and Politics in Jordan
Reviewed by Stephanie Chaban

Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America
Reviewed by Kristen Lambert

Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History
Reviewed by Julia Landweber

Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence, and Equity
Reviewed by Sarah Rudrum

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
Reviewed by Melissa Autumn White

Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough
Reviewed by Connie Oxford

Crossing Borders: International Women Students In American Higher Education
Reviewed by Susan Iverson and Yu-Hui Chou

Gender and HIV/AIDS: Critical Perspectives from the Developing World
Reviewed by Cassandra R. Warren


*RN. MSN. DNSc.
Faculty of Nursing/ WHO Collaborating Center
Jordan University of Science and Technology
P. O. Box 3030 Irbid
22110 Jordan.