| Description |
392 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A project of the Feminist Journals Network." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Peggy Antrobus -- Introduction / Angela Miles -- I. NEO-LIBERAL CONTEXT -- Women: the custodians / Vandana Shiva -- Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- II. FEMINIST ORGANIZING: NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL FRAMES -- Global politics and transnational feminisms / Jan Jindy Pettman -- Feminist networks, people's movements and alliances: learning from the ground / Devaki Jain -- Feminism, peace, human rights and human security / Charlotte Bunch -- Up against the state: the women's movement in Pakistan and its implications for the global women's movement / Nighat Said Khan -- Creating and sustaining feminist space in Africa: local and global challenges in the twenty-first century / Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi -- Advocating feminism: the Latin American Feminist NGO 'Boom' / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Organizing for domestic worker rights in Singapore: the limits of transnationalism / Lenore Lyons -- III. WOMEN'S LOCAL STRUGGLES AND FEMINIST POLITICS -- Curse of nakedness: Nigerian women in the oil war / Terisa E. Turner, Leigh S. Brownhill -- 'We are that mythical thing called the public': militant housewives in the US during the depression / Annelise Orleck -- Solidarity, patriarchy and empowerment: women's struggles against Arrack in India / Rekha Pande -- Coming to terms with the past in Bangladesh: naming women's truths / Bina D'Costa -- Missionay women and feminism in Norway, 1906-1910 / Line Nyhagen Predelli -- IV. FEMINIST CHALLENGES IN PRACTICE AND VISION -- Indigenous roots of United States feminism / Sally Roesch Wagner -- Women's human rights activists as political theorists / Brooke A. Ackerly -- Alternative leadership in Africa: some critical feminist reflections / Sylvia Tamale -- Testing the limits of European citizenship: ethnic hatred and male violence / R. Amy Elman -- Feminist intervention in the rise of 'Asian' discourse / Cho Haejoang -- Back to womanhood: feminism in globalized Israel / Erella Shadmi -- V. CONCLUSION -- Empire strikes back but finds feminism invincible / Alda Facio. |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Feminism -- International cooperation.
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Feminism -- International cooperation. |
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Women -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Femmes en politique. |
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Féminisme -- Coopération internationale. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Ricciutelli, Luciana, 1958-
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Miles, Angela R. (Angela Rose)
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McFadden, Margaret.
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| ISBN |
184277350X cased |
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1842773518 paperback |
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0968129080 paperback |
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