Issue 7

Media and Gender Monitor is a bi-annual publication from the WACC Women's Programme distributed to more than 3,000 individuals and organisations worldwide. It aims to articulate the concerns of the WACC Women's Programme from global, regional and local perspectives and address a wide range of gender and communication issues. Media and Gender Monitor is a bi-annual publication from the WACC Women's Programme distributed to more than 3,000 individuals and organisations worldwide. It aims to articulate the concerns of the WACC Women's Programme from global, regional and local perspectives and address a wide range of gender and communication issues.

Women’s words unveiled

29 Mär 2005

Jameela Nishat

Are women censored in specifically gendered ways? Do family and community influence their choice of language, style, subject and do they face problems in getting published and receiving critical literary attention? A hundred women writers in 6 languages at 6 workshops, organised by Asmita and Women’s World in India, explored the answers to these questions. In the process they discovered that before they are silenced by state or community, women censor themselves. They even destroy their own work.

WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression.

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