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If the purpose of research is to reveal, the purpose of advocacy is to see the revelation into wider consciousness and then into policy and remedial actions. This chapter is concerned not with an analysis of the impact of structural adjustment on women, but of the process of making that impact known, and postulating damage limitation and even preventative measures, as well as proposing alternatives to current forms of adjustment. It is a somewhat personal history, since it is the nature of political advocacy — about unusual and innovative issues — to travel light, so to speak, forming coalitions and caucuses as the opportunity arises.
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Grace Akello, ‘Self Twice Removed: Ugandan Woman’, CHANGE, 1983;
Tsehai Berhane Selassie, ‘In Search of Ethiopian Women’, CHANGE, 1984;
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See Georgina Ashworth and Lucy Bonnerjea, The Invisible Decade: UK Women and the UN Decade (Gower, 1985);
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UN NGLS/Oxfam, ‘Debt, Adjustment and the Needs of the Poor: Final Statement’, September 1987 and Full Report 1988.
Andrea Cornia, Richard Jolly and Frances Stewart (eds), Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP for UNICEF, 1988).
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Noeleen Heyser, ‘The Impact of Food-Energy-Foreign Debt Management on Women: Concepts and Issues’, for Southeast Asia DAWN Network, 1987.
Georgina Ashworth (ed.), Bridging the Gap: Issues for Women’s Studies and Development studies for the 1990s, for Krishna Patel, INSTRAW, 1989. See also Marjorie Williams, ‘The Global Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the Fate of Women’, a concept paper for the Women’s Alternative Economic Summit, July 1988; ‘Statement and Recommendations’ from Women and the Debt Crisis Working Group, The Hague, March 1988.
United Nations, Report: ‘UN Interregional Seminar on Women and the Economic Crisis: Impact, Policies and Prospects’, CSDHA, Vienna, October 1988.
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Ashworth, G. (1992). Politicising Gender and Structural Adjustment. In: Afshar, H., Dennis, C. (eds) Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World. Women’s Studies at York/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11961-5_10
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