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Jennifer Chan, Ph.D.

B. Soc. Sc (University of Hong Kong), M.B.A. (Hautes Etudes Commerciales, France and University of Cologne), M.A. and Ph.D. (Stanford University)

 

Associate Professor, Adult Education, Dept. of Educational Studies;
Faculty Associate,Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, Centre for Japanese Research, and Institute for European Studies, UBC.

Gender, human rights, transnational social movements, citizenship, multiculturalism, globalization, international comparative education, Japan, France.

Room: Room 31, Ponderosa G

Phone: 604-822-5353

Email: jennifer.chan@ubc.ca
(On leave 2004-6)

 

Courses Taught
Research Interests
Research Grant Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Invited Presentations
Other Research Contributions
Awards
Graduate Supervision
Service
Hobbies / Videos
Links to favorite Sites

Courses

 

2008-9

ADHE 501

Adult Education and Community

ADHE 565A

HIV/AIDS and Education

ADHE 565B

Islam and Multicultural Citizenship

ADHE 565C

Film, Storytelling and Social Justice Research

2007-8

ADHE 500

Foundations of Adult Education

ADHE 535

Comparative and International Education: Educational Multilateralism and Globalization

EADM 501

Methods: Approaches in Social Justice Research

ADHE 565

Learning to be...Canadian: Immigration, Education and Citizenship

2006-7

CCFI 565b

International Human Rights, Transnational Social Movements, and Education

EDST 314

Social Issues in Education

ADHE 535

Comparative and International Adult and Higher Education

2003-4

ADED 565B

Gender, Education and Globalization

EDST 429

Sociology of Education: Global Citizenship Education

EDST 580

Directed Reading: Feminist Studies in Education

2001-2

IAR 505

New Institutionalism in Asia: Regionalism and Multilateral Governance

Poli 329

Gender and Politics

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Research Interests

Feminist theory, comparative feminisms, transnational feminist organizing, gender and racial politics, children's rights, civil society in Japan/Asia and France/Europe, globalization and resistance, world social forum, GATS/WTO, GMO politics, immigration and asylum, higher education reforms in Japan and France.

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Research Grant Projects

As principal investigator:

  • 2005-8 Standard Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, CAD 88,928. “Varieties of Academic Capitalism: Marketization reforms in Higher Education and Social Contract in Japan and France”.

  • 2005-7 Hampton Research Fund, CAD 23,702. “Between Multiculturalism and National Security: The War on Terror and Muslim Minority Rights in France and Japan”.

  • 2005-6 ABE Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, USD75,185. “Globalization and Governance Reforms: A Comparative Study of Japan and France”.

  • 2004-5 Advanced Research Fellowship, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University. USD45,000. “Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Advocacy Nongovernmental Organizations in the Alternative Globalization Movement”.

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Large Grant, 2004-5, University of British Columbia, $6,760. "The Claims of Culture: Affirmative Action and Multicultural Education in France and Japan".

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Themes 3&4: Population Health and Health Services & Systems Research), 2004-5, $2,700. "Knowledge as intellectual property or knowledge for public health: the global movement for the access to basic medicines"

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Bridge Grant, 2004, University of British Columbia, $2,000. "Deliberative Democracy and Cognitive Justice: The Role of Transnational Social Movements in Constructing Cosmopolitan Citizenships."

  • Institute for European Studies, 2003, University of British Columbia, $1,000. "The Construction of "Another" Globalization: The Role of Transnational Literacy in Addressing the Issue of Democratic Deficit."

As participant:

  • Grant from European Commission. Contributor in book project entitled "Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making."

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Curriculum Vitae

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Publications
Books and Journal Articles

Jennifer Chan. 2008. Another Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education in Japan. Edited book manuscript. Stanford University Press. Forthcoming February 2008.

Jennifer Chan. 2007. “The Antiwar Movements in Japan 1990-2005.” Critiques Internationales. Vol 36.

Jennifer Chan. 2007. "Between Efficiency, Capability and Recognition: Competing Epistemes in Global Governance." Comparative Education. Vol 43(3), pp.359-376.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education: The Emergence of the Alterglobalization and Antiwar Movements in Japan. Harvard University US Japan Program Occasional Paper 05-06.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention”. International Review of Education. Volume 52, issue 1-2, pp. 93-110.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “Conversability and Education: Feminist Resistance against Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Nationalism”. Gender Law and Policy Annual Review. Tohoku University 21st Century Center of Excellence Program,  Vol. 3.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “La Participation Feministe Au Mouvement Altermondialiste: Une Critique de L’organisation Mondiale du Commerce”. Recherches Feministes. VOL. 17, NO. 2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. Gender and Human Rights Plitics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks. Stanford University Press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. “Towards a ‘Global Educational Justice Research Paradigm: Cognitive Justice, Decolonizing Methodologies and Critical Pedagogy. Globlisation, Societies and Education. Vol. 2, Issue 2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. “Gender-Skepticism or Gender Boom: Poststructural Feminisms, Transnational, Feminisms, and the World Conference Against Racism”. International Feminist Journal of Politics. Vol. 6, Issue 3.

Chapters in Books

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “UNESCO versus the World Trade Organization? When Cultural Diversity Trumps Free Trade” in Yves Tiberghien and Julian Dierkes, eds., Minerva’s Moment: Japan, Canada and the EU in Global Institution-Building. Submitted.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “The Alternative Globalization Movement, Social Justice and Education” in William Ayers, Therese Quinn and David Stovall, eds., The Handbook of Social Justice in Education. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Publishers. Under review.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “Academic Capitalism in Japan: National University Incorporation and Special Zones for Structural Reform” in Joseph Zajda,  ed, Privatization and Higher Education. Springer.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2006. “Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention” in Joseph Zajda, ed., Education and Social Justice. Springer.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Situer la société civile au Japon” in Jean-François Sabouret (ed), La Dynamique du Japon. Paris: Saint Simon.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan" in M. Nakamura and P. Potter (eds), Comparative International Studies of Social Cohesion and Globalization in Asia: Japan. Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network in the 1990s: Global Norms, Gender Politics, and Civil Society" in Errol Mendes, ed., "Bridging the Global Divide on Human Rights: a Canada-China Dialogue". Ashgate Publishing.

Francisco Ramirez and Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "Globalization and Education in Asia" with Francisco Ramirez in The Handbook on Educational Research in the Asia Pacific Region. Kluwers Academic Publishers.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

Jennifer Chan. 2007. "The Global Market and University Restructuring: The Cases of Japan and France". Organizer of and panelist on “Comparative Academic Capitalism: Marketization Higher Education Reforms and Social Contract” at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference “, February 25-March 1, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Jennifer Chan. 2006. “Academic Capitalism in Japan: National University Incorporation and Special Zones for Structural Reform”. Organizer and Presenter at the panel on “University Reforms in Japan” at the Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference “Japan at our Doorstep and in the Changing Global Community”, October 12-15, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. 

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. "Towards a Global Convention on Cultural Diversity: Voices from Minority Women in Japan" and "the Decolonization of Imagination: Claims for Cognitive Justice by Peasant Communities, Migrant Workers and Ethnic Women Students in the Context of Globalization". Panel organizer and Presenter at the Women's Worlds 2005: 9th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul, Korea.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention". Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Globalization from Below: The Role of Transnational Social Movements in Redefining Educational Multilateralism" at the 12th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Havana, Cuba.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Globalization, Resistance and Critical Pedagogy". Conference proceedings of the 2004 joint annual conference of Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and Adult Education Research Conference. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Culture as Capitalism or Counter Hegemony: On the Politics of a Proposed International Convention on Cultural Diversity². "Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making," Conference organized by the Institute of European Studies, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "Gender-Skepticism or Gender-Boom: Poststructural Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the World Conference against Racism." Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Speaking Back: What Transnational Feminism has to Offer to Poststructural Feminism?" at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "Redefining Children's Human Rights as Japanese State Interests." Presented in the Nongovernmental Organization Workshop organized by International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism at the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Yokohama.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network in the 1990s: Global Norms, Gender Politics, and Civil Society." Presented at the Canada-China Conference on International Human Rights, jointly organized by the Human Rights Research and Education Center at the University of Ottawa and Beijing University Law School, Beijing.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. “Socializing States in the World Community: The Teaching of International Human Rights Norms by Nongovernmental Organizations”. Presented at the “Global Resonance and Resistance: Affirmative Alternatives for Educational Policy, Practice, and Transformation”, Comparative and International Education Society 2001, Washington DC.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "Creating a Gender-Equal Society in Japan: The Interaction between Women's Studies, Governmental Reforms, and Nongovernmental Organizations". "Women's Studies: Asian Connections", Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2000. "Daring To Talk: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Diffusion of Norms on Violence against Women in Japan". Presented at the "2000 Subversions: Women's Studies and the Twenty-First Century", National Women's Studies Association, Simmons College, Boston.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1999. "Embedded State: Global Norms Redefining the Status of Women in Japan." Presented at the "New Rights For a New Millennium? A Graduate Conference on New Scholarship in International Human Rights", Center for International Studies and Cooperation, Stanford University.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1998. "The Power of Unarmed Prophets: Nongovernmental Organizations as Carriers of Human Rights Education". Presented at the "Dance on the Edge", Comparative and International Education Society Western Region Conference, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1997 "Carrying World Culture: Human Rights Education as a Global Project". Presented at the "Education, Democracy and Development at the Turn of the Century", Comparative and International Education Society Western Region Conference, Mexico City.

Book Reviews

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Civil Society and Political Change in Asia”. Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3. In press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Globalization and Human Rights”. Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol. 5, No. 2. In press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. "Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.4.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "The State of Civil Society in Japan". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia-Pacific Region". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.3.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1999. "UNESCO - 50 Years of Education". Book Review. International Journal of Education Development. 19/1: 101-102.

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Invited Presentations

Jennifer Chan. 2006. “Workshop and book project funded by the European Commission,” Minerva’s Moment: Japan, Canada and the EU in Global Institution-Building. August 21-22, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jennifer Chan. 2006. “International Human Rights and Educational Multilateralism: The Diffusion of Norms Through Local Education”. Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA.

Jennifer Chan. 2005. “Another Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education in Japan”. Asian Studies Lecture Series, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.

Jennifer Chan. 2005. “Grassroots Multilateralism: Japanese Nongovernmental Networks and Soft Power.” Workshop and book project funded by the European Commission, “Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jennifer Chan. 2005. “Conversability and Education: Feminist Resistance against Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Nationalism”. Center of Excellence, Faculty of Law, Tohoku University, Japan.

Jennifer Chan. 2005. “Globalization and University Reforms: A Transnational and
Comparative Analysis of the Case of Japan”. Contemporary Japan Group, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005 . “Re-Narrating Educational Multilateralism: Cultural Difference in Global Governance”. Presenter at the panel on “Educational as International Relations: National Interest, Global Empire or Global Governance” at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting “Demography and Democracy in the Era of Accountability”, Montreal, Canada.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Social Movements, Grassroots Education and Alternative Globalization”. Presenter at the panel on “Culture and Pro-Democracy Movements in Asia” at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Between Efficiency, Capability and Recognition: Competing Epistemes in Global Governance”. Presenter at the panel on “Global Governance and Educatinal Change” at the Comparative International Education Society annual meeting, “Beyond Dichotomies”, Stanford University.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. “Flexible Republicanism: Unveiling the French Racial State in its Law to Ban Religious Signs in Public Schools”. University of British Columbia, Department of Educational Studies, Research Day, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.   

April 2005. “Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Advocacy Nongovernmental Organizations in the Alternative Globalization Movement”. Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

November 2004. “From gender equality to gender intersectionality: Implications for Educational Approaches and Social Movement Mobilization in Japan”. First International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, organized by the Population and Gender Studies Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

January 2004. "Redefining Race in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks". Center for Japanese Studies, Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia.

January 2002. "Postmodernizing International Norms: The Impact of Transnational Feminist Organizing on the World Conference against Racism." Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.

Decembe4 2001. "Redefining Children's Human Rights as Japanese State Interests." Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Yokohama, Japan.

September 2001. "Redefining Racism: The Potential and Limits of Global Civil Society. A Report from the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerances (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa." Institute of International Relations. University of British Columbia.

September 2001. "Gender, Human Rights and Political Change: The Impact of Global Norms on State-Civil Society Relations in Japan." The Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations Lecture Series, University of British Columbia.

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Creative writing & Other Research Contributions

2007. "Tastes of Exile and Home" in Brandy Lien Worrall, ed. Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian & Aboriginal Potluck. Vancouver, BC: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC.

2007. "Workshop and Lwáza by Nyata Nyata". Dance Central (Scotiabank Dance Centre newsletter), May/June, p. 4.

2006. “Planetary Multiculturalism in Global Governance: Narratives, Subjugated Knowledges and Alternative Globalizations”- slides on alternative globalizations submitted as part of a curatorial archival project entitled Planetarity: An Intra/International Archive of Culturally Diverse Artists and Writers, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and developed by Rajdeep Singh Gill, Curatorial Resident of Vancouver Art Gallery. Under Review.

2006. Documentary film on the Fourth World Social Forum in Mumbai 2004 entitled “Cultural Narratives and Global Governance”. In production.

Videos:

2007. Producer/Director. Last Tango in Paris. Film screened at the Gulf Island Film and Television School, Galiano Island, BC. June 15th.
Synopsis:
she wants to tango
he wants to sleep
her dream is Buenos Aires
he can't take time off
she teaches him the steps
he is completely off beat
she is in despair...
last tango in tokyo is about
love off tempo

2007. Producer/Director. Day of Shame. Film screened at the Gulf Island Film and Television School, Galiano Island, BC. June 15th.
Synopsis: The San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed in 1951, ended the American occupation of Japan's main islands but ceded most of Okinawa to the United States. In Okinawa the day the treaty was signed is referred to as the Day of Shame. Day of Shame is about the journey for peace of Okinawans and people worldwide.

2007. Co-Producer/Director with Pippa Hirst and Chad Schroter-Gillespie. Soul on Fire. Film screened at the Gulf Island Film and Television School, Galiano Island, BC June 15th.
Synopsis: A young musician ventures into the world of filmmaking and discovers a strong connection with the man who made it all possible.

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Awards

ABE Fellowship, 2005-6, Social Science Research Council, USA.

Advanced Research Fellowship, 2004-5, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation, 2003. Comparative and International Education Studies Society. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network: Global Norms and Local Education Redefining Gender Politics in Japan." Ph.D. Dissertation, 2001, Stanford University School of Education.

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Graduate Supervision

Supervisor:

Cindy Hanson, PhD Candidate.“Transformation through Pedagogy: Exploring Activist Practices in International Development”

Omar Abdullah, PhD Candidate. “Islamic Education in a Pluralistic Context: The case of Educational Institutions in Canada”

Hiroko Hara, PhD student. “Gender Equal Education and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Discourse and Practice in Cambodia”

Rajdeep Singh Gill, PhD student, Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Awardee, “Creativity, Ethics and Social Justice within Indigenous Paradigms”

Moises Escueta, PhD student “Popular Education and Trauma Recovery: Community Empowerment through Visual Arts”

Christine Wolf, PhD student, TBA

Michiyo Hayase, MA student. TBA

Nada Orr, MA student, TBA

Rachel Speiran, MA in Adult and Higher Education. Graduated in 2004. Currently Social and Economic Scientist at Rescan Environmental Services Ltd., Canada. “Culture and Beyond: Exploring intercultural relations in the mining industry”

Committee Member:

Sedi Minachi, PhD student. “Human Right Education for Displaced Youth Living in Refugee Camps: Need and Potential”

Xuehong Liao, MA student. “Alike or Different: A Study of Four North American Universities’ Study Abroad Programs”

Chen Shen, MA student. “Public Funding for China's National Regular Universities and Colleges”

Romee Lee, PhD in Adult and Higher Education. Graduated in 2006. Currently, Instructor at Songsil University and Inha University. “Lifelong Learning at the Borders: Transnational Learning Experiences of Migrant Workers in Korea”

Hiroko Hara, MA. Graduated in 2006. Currently a UBC PhD student. “Diasporic and Transnational Notions of Belonging: A Case Study of Cambodians in Japan”  

Reader and External Examiner:

Mee Lain Ling, MA in Adult Education. Graduated in 2004. “Methodology of Decolonizing Gender and International Development: A View from China”

Reyla Lopez, MA in Educational Studies. Graduated in 2004. “Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Rural China”          

Chantal Poux, MA in Asian Studies. Graduated in 2004. Currently a PhD student at the Universite de Quebec à Montreal. “De la Prise de Conscience au Passage à l'Acte ou de la Nature Politique des Etudes sur les Femmes en Chine Contemporaine”         

Lisa Okada, MEd in Adult Education. Graduated in 2004. “Visibilizing the Empty Spaces: Antiracism and Adult Education”

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Service

2001 - present. Peer Reviewer:

  • Canadian Journal of Education
  • Sage Publications.
  • Canadian Scholars' Press/Women's Press
  • Thirdspace, online graduate student journal in women's studies
  • Feminist Studies
  • Comparative Education Review
  • Resources for Feminist Research.

2006. Selection Committee Member, US-Japan Program Advanced Research Fellowship. Harvard University.

2005. External Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants.

2005-7. Consultant, Feminist Studies.  

Translator, Japan Civil Liberties Union.

Discussant, “Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions”, funded by Abe Fellowship Program, Center for Global Partnership and Social Science Research Council Seminar Series, at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, February 2005.

Discussant, "International Workshop on University Reform in Six Countries," organized by the Center for Higher Education Policy, University of British Columbia, August 2003.

Guest Lecturer on "Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan", March 2004, Poli322, Japanese Government and Politics.

International Scholars Committee, Dept. of Educational Studies, UBC

PhD Management and Admissions Committee, Dept. of Educational Studies, UBC

UBC Imagine Prof. 2002

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Hobbies

Travel, Dance, Jazz, and Fiction

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Links to Favorite Sites

World News

Le Monde Diplomatique http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
http://MondeDiplo.com/

Courrier International http://www.courrierint.com/actual/accueil.asp
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/world/
Globe and Mail http://www.globeandmail.ca/
Altermedia http://www.altermedia.org/
World Policy Journal http://www.worldpolicy.org/
Far East Economic Review http://www.feer.com/
South China Morning Post http://www.scmp.com/
Ming Pao http://www.mingpao.com/
The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/
The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
Harpers http://www.harpers.org/
N.Y. Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/
Atlantic Monthly http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/index.htm

Research Alternative globalization NGOs

ATTAC http://www.attac.org/indexen/index.html
World Devleopment Movement http://www.wdm.org.uk/
Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Council of Canadians http://www.canadians.org/
Common Frontiers http://www.web.net/comfront/

Nongovernmental Feminist Organizations

Child Care Hours for Men and Women Network http://www.eqg.org/index.html
Solidarité et communication électronique pour les femmes en Afrique http://www.apc.org/english/index.shtml

Human Rights Organizations

2nd Edition of the Concise Guide to Human Rights in the Internet. http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/manual.htm
Women's Human Rights Resources, University of Toronto, Bora Laskin Law Library
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm
Human Rights Internet http://www.hri.ca/welcome.asp
Global Restructuring Global Exchange http://globalexchange.org/
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/
European Center for Minority Issues http://www.ecmi.de/doc/index.html
Human Rights Education Associates http://www.ecmi.de/doc/index.html

UN Agencies & Regional Institutions

Women's Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Unifem--United Nations Development Fund for Women http://www.unifem.org/
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch/
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Gender and Food Security Web site http://www.fao.org/gender/
European Union http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
European Commission Daphne Program on Violence Against Women http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/project/daphne/

Women & Politics

Women in Parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union http://www.ipu.org/

Women's Studies

University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/
WMST-L Archives http://www.gl.umbc.edu/
NWSA - National Women's Studies Association (USA) http://www.nwsa.org/
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Feminist theory website http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Institute for Women's Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org
Stanford Institute of Research on Women and Gender http://www.stanford.edu/group/IRWG/

Feminist Scholars Homepages

The Judith Butler Page http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm
Helene Cixous' "The Laugh of the Medusa" Resource Page http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/English295/albright/main1.htm
Individual Feminists http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/indiv.html

Other Resources

Feminist Activist Resources on the Net www.women.it/repertori/factres.htm
Meninist http://www.feminist.com/resources/links/men.htm/

Japan

Cabinet Office, Government of Japan http://www.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
Office for Gender Equality, Prime Minister's Office http://www.gender.go.jp/index2.html



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