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Starting With Women's Lives

Starting with Women’s Lives, Changing Today’s Economy

by Bev Burke and Suzanne Doerge

103 pages
$18 including shipping and handling

This popular illustrated hands-on manual is designed for facilitating “The Wall”: a tool that helps women do a gender analysis of today’s economy, starting from women’s experiences. It has been used by women’s organizations, trade unions, and community groups, professional and religious organizations in countries around the globe.

These facilitator guides are available in three languages: English, French and Spanish. Each guide includes an introduction to the methodology, detailed facilitator notes and step-by-step description on preparing workshop materials.

English and French guides, originally published in 2000, describe a one-day workshop. A revised edition of the English guide was published in 2005. This improved guide is easier to use and draws upon the experience of groups using the methodology around the world.

The Spanish guide describes a two-day Wall workshop adapted for the Latin American context. Great care has been made in the Spanish version to ensure the method is accessible to women with low-literacy skills.

For an introduction to the methodology; experiences people have had facilitating Wall workshops, how to order guides and suggestions for adapting the methodology to your situation, visit the website at: www.wallworkshop.com/English/index.html.

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