International Developments

Just a few notes on what members of DWC living and working outside the US are up to:

Marisa Silvestri of Southbank University London recently published Women In Charge (2003) with Willan Publishing, Devon. The number of women police in England and Wales continues to increase, and whilst they continue to be under represented in senior ranks, the arrival of women at Chief Constable level has raised the profile of their role. Women In Charge makes a detailed study of senior women police officers and is based on extensive research including in-depth interviews.

Caroline Lambert, Sharon Pickering and Christine Alder published Critical Chatter: women and human rights in South East Asia (2003) with Carolina Academic Press. Critical Chatter is the politicised conversation by which women activists in South East Asia negotiate the possibilities and pitfalls of human rights in their activism for social change. Based on in-depth interviews with women in Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand and the women from Burma living along the Thai Burma border, the book argues that critical chatter reflects the challenges of universality in human rights and feminism and the production of a form of strategic universality.