Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
Emma Tomalin
2 The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into
development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project
in Yemen 13
Brenda Bartelink and Marjo Buitelaar
3 Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities: learning
from attitudes on gender relations and sexual rights within local
evangelical churches in Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, and South
Africa 25
Mandy Marshall and Nigel Taylor
4 The Thai bhikkhuni movement and women’s empowerment 37
Emma Tomalin
5 Reflecting on gender equality in Muslim contexts in Oxfam GB 51
Adrienne Hopkins and Kirit Patel
6 Christianity, development, and women’s liberation 65
Bridget Walker
7 Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in
horticultural exporting 75
Catherine S. Dolan
8 No time to worship the serpent deities: women, economic
change, and religion in north-western Nepal 85
Rebecca Saul
9 A double-edged sword: challenging women’s oppression
within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria 97
Fatima L. Adamu
10 Islam and development: opportunities and constraints for
Somali women 105
Sadia Ahmed
11 Abortion law reform in Latin America: lessons for advocacy 111
Gillian Kane
12 Conclusion: moving forward 127
Emma Tomalin
Annotated bibliography 137
Index 145
