"In this paper, I explore institutional discourse on the role of gender in constructions of development communication beneficiaries and on the process of social change facilitated through communication intervention. Analyses are based on description of health, nutrition, and population projects impl
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emented by several organizations since 1975. Since the Decade for Women, dvelopment communication projects have focused their attention on women and other marginal groups, whereas U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has replaced informing strategies with persuasion approaches that target women as reproducers to consume products and services available through the private sector." (Abstract)
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"This international survey of literature on women an mass communications focuses on the 1990s and continues where the first volume (1991) left off. Some pre-1990 works that were omitted in the first volume are included here as well. The work is organized by continents and regions. The first chapter
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provides a global perspective, and the following chapters are divided topically. All genres of publications, such as books, periodicals, dissertations, and conference papers, are examined." (Catalogue Greenwood Publishing 2000)
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