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Dear Colleagues

We are well into 2007, and we are busy preparing to launch our subscription service for the year with our first journal, issue 71.

Agenda will publish a journal focusing on the topic of Engendering ICTs in May 2007. This journal will explore how women can take advantage of the ICT revolution and what women’s obstacles are to using ICTs and tackle the following questions:

What opportunities will ICTs offer women in achieving the Millennium Development Goals? What are the obstacles to using ICTs to economically empower women? How can ICTs empower women in the informal economy? How can ICT policies be engendered?

What are the dangers of creating a digital divide, a disparity between those who make use of ICTs efficiently and effectively, and those who do not? Do women in Africa have the capacity and skills to make effective use of ICTs? The ICT revolution has only really impacted the major cities so far - how can we deploy a sustainable ICT infrastructure that empowers marginalised people living in rural areas, particularly women?

The reason for this correspondence serves two purposes – one, to serve as a gentle reminder to subscribers who have not yet filled in and returned subscription forms for the 2007 service, and two, to find out the reason should some of our subscribers not wish to subscribe with us this year. To subscribers that have already signed up for the 2007 service, we take this opportunity to thank and welcome you to our service.

Attached, please find the new updated brochures and order forms with the new pricing structure for your records. The price structure has been changed for the first time in three years. From 2007, all journals will be posted via airmail, a move to ensure that our subscribers receive their journals in a shorter time period.

Should you wish to renew your subscriptions, you can fill in the attached subscriptions renewal form and post to: Agenda Feminist Media, P.O. Box 61163, Bishopsgate, 4008, or email confirmation of your renewal to the subscriptions department at the email address mentioned below.

Should you wish to receive back issues, you can email your query to the subscriptions department at the above email address.

For subscribers who are not renewing their subscriptions this year, please find below, a very short questionnaire for you to fill in. We will be very grateful and appreciative if you fit in this short exercise in your very busy schedule - this will enable us to improve our services in the future.

Some of our subscribers might still not be aware of the changes at Agenda, so we are taking this opportunity once again of introducing ourselves under the leadership of Michelle Odayan who took over as director of Agenda Feminist Media in August 2006.

We value the relationship you share with Agenda through your interest in the Agenda journal.

Should you wish to give any feedback on our journals, please feel free to contact the subscriptions department on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Thank you for your support in the past and we look forward to a continued relationship with you in 2007.

With warm regards
Michelle Odayan

Director
Agenda Feminist Media

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ISSUE

TITLE + BRIEF INFORMATION

PRICE

Monograph

Health, Energy & Land: Looks at the social and economic inequalities of a long history of systemic and structured race discrimination.

R 24

Special Focus

Gender Culture and Rights: this special edition of Agenda seeks to establish the current state in South Africa of gender and rights on the one hand and culture and rights on the other after 10 years of democracy.

R 30

1 - # 11

General and un-themed journals 1987 to 1991 (Available on CD only)

R 15 ea.

12

Rural Politics: Focuses on challenges encountered by rural women and organisations working in rural areas in the early 90’s.

R 15

13

Culture and Tradition: Opens up discussion around the term ‘traditional culture’.

R 15

14

Women and Southern Africa: Gives an understanding of the dynamics of the social relations between women and men.

R 15

15

Health: Offers discussion on papers that explore the overall context, which determine women’s health status as well as specific health questions.

R 15

16

Violence in Focus: Examines whether violence differ depending on one’s gender, race and class.

R 15

17

Recreation and Leisure: Covers different forms of leisure enjoyed by women and explore obstacles and prejudices that limit women’s access to leisure and recreation.

R 15

18

The Economy: Explores some aspects of the economic position of women in South Africa.

R 15

19

Difference: Focuses on the effects of race amongst women and the power invested in those who are in advantaged positions and represent others.

R 15

20

Politics, Power and Democracy: Addresses the question of how to represent women in political structures.

R 15

21

Focus on Education: Concentrates on women’s access to education and questions whether or not they are granted enough opportunities to study.

R 15

22

The Family in Question: Focuses on parenting more specifically mothering.

R 15

23

Body Politics: Focuses on the effect of gender relations on the body rather than the thorny issue of the extent to which biology influences gender relations.

R 15

24

Monitoring the Changes: Critically assesses changes for women after the first democratic elections.

R 15

25

Religion: Explores the relationship between women and religion in an effort to open the debate for a liberating spiritual environment.

R 15

26

Local Government: Raises issues affecting women at local government levels.

R 15

27

Reproductive Rights: Explores women’s rights regarding reproductive issues that affect them directly and indirectly.  

R 15

28

Sexuality: Focuses on women’s sexuality – the process that creates, organises, confines, expresses and directs desire. Who has control over the sexuality of women?

R 15

29

The Environment: Examines women’s participation in the planning and decision-making process around all environmental issues.

R 15

30

Provinces in Focus: Addresses the institutionalisation of gender at provincial government level.

R 15

31

The Media: Debates the level of involvement by women in the media and questions how women’s issues receive coverage from the media.  

R 15

32

Race, Identity and Change: Re-examine the understandings of racial politics two years after apartheid has become history.

R 15

33

The Poverty Issue: Explores economic injustice, poverty and the interrelations of race and gender.

R 15

34

Celebrating 10 years: Celebrates Agenda’s achievements over the past ten years of its existence and its development since inception.

R 24

35

The Labour Market: Explores the position of women in the post-apartheid economy and asks what changes have taken took place.

R 20

36

Violence: Reflects the level of concern about the problem of gender violence in the new democracy, based on racial and sexual equality, and therefore a respect for human dignity.

R 20

37

The New Men? – Brings the man back into gender transformation and challenge ideas about dominant masculinities.

R 20

38

Techno-Innovation: Questions the meaning of technology to women   located differently in terms of race and class. 

R 20

39

AIDS: Counting the cost: Highlights gender context, human rights questions for the growing number of women who are living with HIV/AIDS and the need for AIDS interventions to be successful. (available on CD only).

R 20

40

Citizenship: Focuses on the debates around gender and citizenship as we approached the country’s second democratic general election.

R 24

41

Gender and Education: Looks at gender equality as a marker in assessing the progress towards achieving real democratic transformation in education.

R 24

42

Women, Land and Housing: Provides a forum for discussion around women’s relationship to the land ownership and to shelter. 

R 24

43

Women and the aftermath: Looks at the difficulties women face after wars and how these affect them as peace-makers, mothers and victims during war.

R 24

44

AIDS: global concern for women: Presents our readers with global perspectives on the concerns of women in relation to the AIDS pandemic.

R 24

45

Local government - bringing democracy home: Demonstrates the implications of the new local government legislation and outlines how women are ill informed about local government and local decision-making processes that directly affect them.

R 24

46

The Politics of Writing: Focuses on the act of writing and the undertakings of women to get their work to a reading public, in print.

R 24

47

Realising Rights: Questions the extent to which women are able to realise the rights accorded to them in the Constitution.

R 24

48

Globalisation: challenging dominant discourses: Offers new meanings, possibilities and terrain for exploring feminism and activism in a global context.

R 24

49

Culture Transgressing Boundaries: Contributors in this issue require that we question our own readings of culture and performance to discover a different place where there is freedom.

R 24

50

African Feminisms I: The 1st of a three part series it is intended to anchor debate about women and gender equality geographically, conceptually and politically on a much wider canvas of the African continent.

R 24

51

Food: needs, wants and desires: This issue provides some sense of the diversity of issues of food and gender.

R 24

52

Sustainable Development: an oxymoron?  Published in the run up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

R 24

53

What Kind of Future Can We Make?  Education, Youth and HIV/ AIDS: Looks at some of the issues surrounding HIV prevention strategies for young people specifically in the school context.

R 24

54

African Feminisms II: Expands upon the debates and understandings of feminist theories and gender activism in Africa.

R 24

55

Women.  The Invisible Refugee: Explores the silencing of refugee women.

R 24

56

Gendering Childhood:  This issue is concerned with the gendered construction of childhood and the quality of childhood in SA and Africa.

R 24

57

Urban Culture: An examination of the urban contemporary spaces that we live in.

R 24

58

African Feminisms III: This issue shifts to discussions around African feminism and women's experiences in the African diaspora. (available on CD only).

R 24

59

Women in War: This issue of Agenda explores the links between patriarchy, militarism, security and efforts towards gender justice. (available on CD only).

R 24

60

Contemporary Activism: This issue of Agenda explores the nature and condition of women’s and feminist activism and asks: What does activism mean in the contemporary?  

R 24

61

Religion and Spirituality: This issue of Agenda is a contribution towards a growing dialogue between women who use their source of strength in the sacred as a powerful tool to conceptualize authoritative new African theologies that place women clearly at the forefront of their faith

R 24

62

Sexuality in Africa: In this issue, the writings, in various ways, sought to ask why pain, suffering and death are often associated with African sexualities, and assessed how we could reinstall pleasure, desire, sexuality (and indeed freedom) for the sexuality and takes up the call for the reinstallation of pleasure and desire in sexuality.

R 24

63

Sexuality and Body Image: This issue expands the (African) debates and understanding of feminist theories with particular emphasis on sexuality and takes up the call for the reinstallation of pleasure and desire in sexuality.

R 30

64

Beyond Beijing: This issue of Agenda acknowledges legislative reform for gender equality but looks beyond this, to take stock, to reflect on and highlight change (or lack thereof) in the lives of women.

R 30

65

Women and Leadership:  This issue casts a critical eye on issues pertaining to leadership that go beyond those of representation.

R 30

66

Domestic Violence: This journal questions the assumption that domestic violence is still often considered to be a family affair, especially in Africa; something that occurs in the private realm and is kept secret.

R 30

67

Homosexuality: This edition brings together a rich collection of personal, political and critical narratives that highlight a range of issues and ideas about homosexuality.

R 30

68

Culture: In this issue, culture is debated with relation to gender and inequality.

R 30

69

Nairobi+21: This journal creates a space for discourse between generations.  Feminists and activists of the “older generation”, the stalwarts of the women’s rights movements, investigate the successes as well as the short-comings of the last two decades.

R 30

70

Trafficking: In this journal, writers reflect on different approaches to combat trafficking, discuss legislation and lack thereof, scrutinize limitations of anti-trafficking programmes and suggest ways forward.

R 30