Women's Activism and Globalization

Linking Local Struggles and Global Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93144-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naples, Nancy A.

Desai, Manisha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction
1. Changing the Terms: Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Praxis, Nancy A. Naples
2. Transnational Solidarity: Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization,
Manisha Desai
3. Women's Local and Translocal Responses: An Introduction to the Chapters,
Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai
II. Organizing Across Borders
4. Women to Women: Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua, Clare Weber
5. From Mothers' Rights to Equal Rights: Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations,
Alexandra Hrycak
6. Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women, Sharon Ann Navarro
7. Contesting Multiple Margins: Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early and Late 20th Century, Bandana Purkayashta
III. Localizing Global Politics

8. Creating Alternatives from a Gender Perspective: Transnational Organizing for Maquila Workers' Rights in Central America, Jennifer Bickham Mendez
9. Context, Strategy, Ground: Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/Global Economic Issues, Betty Wells
10. Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle: Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees, Marina Karides
11. Women Activists in Mali: The Global Discourse on Human Rights, Susanna D. Wing
IV. Activism In and Against the Transnational State
12. The Limits of Micro-Credit: Transnational Feminism and USAID Activities in the United States and Morocco, Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime
13. "No Discrimination Whatsoever": Women's Transnational Activism and the Evolution of EU Sex Equality Policy, Rachel A. Cichowski
Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S. Militarism,

Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka
V. Conclusion
15. Transnational Feminist Praxis: The Politics of Location, Nancy A. Naples

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy A. Naples is the Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of California-Irvine and is the author of Grassroots Warriors (Routledge, 1998) and editor of Community Activism and Feminist Politics (Routledge, 1997). Manisha Desai is Chair of Sociology and member of the Women's Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.