"This important study is pitched to an academic community that remains highly patriarchal. Thus, it should make a valuable impact on this audience." (Choice, Highly Recommended) "Global Feminism is an extremely useful and important volume that systematically examines transnational women's movements as well as raises a number of important theoretical questions about global rights and transnational organizing." - Amrita Basu,editor of The Challenge of Local Feminism: Women's Movements in Global Perspective "Global Feminism offers a powerful analysis of the intersection of feminism and globalization, national women's movements and transnational politics, and activism and scholarship. Many of the authors reflect on their experiences as activists to produce a rich examination of feminist mobilization in the 21st century. Among the many strengths of this collection are the ways in which the authors make visible the contradictions of globalization for women's empowerment and evaluate feminist strategies for challenging male domination in its many forms. This book advances our understanding of how to increase social justice and democratic practice in movement organizations and feminist networks. The authors vividly demonstrate what feminism has to offer all movements for social justice." - Nancy A. Naples,author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis and Activist Research

Explores the social and political developments that have energized movements of global feminism
Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world.
Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

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Since the UN's World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, feminists around the world have campaigned with increasing success for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Drawing from an international group of scholars and activists, this book explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement.
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Preface Part I1 Globalization and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global ArenaMyra Marx Ferree2 Unlikely Godmother: The UN and the Global Women's Movement Margaret Snyder3 The Evolution of Transnational Feminisms: Consensus, Con?ict, and New Dynamics Aili Mari TrippPart II4 Turkey's Modern Paradoxes: Identity Politics, Women's Agency, and Universal Rights Yakin Erturk5 Working Women of the World Unite? Labor Organizing and Transnational Gender Solidarity among Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Sarah Swider6 Women's Organizing in Post-Yugoslav Countries: Talking about "Donors" Aida Bagi'c7 Women as Agents for Development: Learning from the Experiences of Women in Finland? Hilkka PietilaPart III8 Regional Women's Activism: African Women's Networks and the African Union Melinda Adams9 Measuring Feminist Mobilization: Cross-National Convergences and Transnational Networks in Western Europe Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur10 Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: Networks and Identities in the Global North and South Myra Marx Ferree and Tetyana PudrovskaPart IV11 Human/Women's Rights and Feminist Transversal Politics Nira Yuval-Davis12 Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization Aili Mari TrippAbout the Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780814727362
Publisert
2006-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
New York University Press
Vekt
458 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

Biografisk notat

Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin.

Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.