Women's Movements in the Global Era : The Power of Local Feminisms
ISBN: 9780813344447 | 0813344441
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books
Pub. Date: 2/23/2010
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Womenrs"s Movements in the Global Erais a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womenrs"s movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the Global South, where womenrs"s movements have engaged in complex negotiations with national and international forces. It challenges widely held assumptions about the Western origins and character of local feminisms. All the authors locate womenrs"s movements within the terrain from which they emerged by exploring their relationships with the state, civil society, a... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Boxed Information | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Africa | |
| South African Feminisms-A Coming of Age? | p. 29 |
| Ramagwana Rakajeka: Opportunities and Challenges of the Zimbabwean Women's Movement | p. 57 |
| Asia | |
| The Women's Movement in Pakistan: Challenges and Achievements | p. 89 |
| Feminist Deliberative Politics in India | p. 1... MORE |
| The Chinese Women's Movement in the Context of Globalization | p. 157 |
| Europe | |
| Polish Feminism Between the Local and the Global: A Task of Translation | p. 193 |
| Russian Women's Activism: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back | p. 229 |
| Latin America | |
| Contemporary Feminisms in Brazil: Achievements, Shortcomings, and Challenges | p. 255 |
| Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America | p. 285 |
| Toward a Culturally Situated Women's Rights Agenda: Reflections from Mexico | p. 315 |
| The Middle East | |
| The Demobilization of a Palestinian Women's Movement: From Empowered Active Militants to Powerless and Stateless "Citizens" | p. 343 |
| The Women's Movement and Feminism in Iran: A Glocal Perspective | p. 375 |
| The United States | |
| Intersecting Oppressions: Rethinking Women's Movements in the United States | p. 415 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 445 |
| About the Contributors | p. 477 |
| Index | p. 483 |
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Amrita Basu is the Paino Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India, the coeditor of four books, and the editor of The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective.
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