Description |
viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321) and index. |
Contents |
Changing the terms : community activism, globalization, and the dilemmas of transnational feminist praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- Transnational solidarity : women's agency, structural adjustment, and globalization / Manisha Desai -- Women's local and translocal responses : an introduction to the chapters / Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai -- Women to women : dissident citizen diplomacy in Nicaragua / Clare Weber -- From mothers' rights to equal rights : post-Soviet grassroots women's associations / Alexandra Hrycak -- Las mujeres invisible! : the invisible women / Sharon Ann Navarro -- Contesting multiple margins : Asian Indian community activism in the early and late twentieth century / Bandana Purkayastha -- Creating alternatives from a gender perspective : transnational organizing for Maquila workers' rights in Central America / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- Context, strategy, ground : rural women organizing to confront local/global economic issues / Betty L. Wells -- Linking local efforts with global struggle : Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees / Marina Karides -- Women activists in Mali : the global discourse on human rights / Susanna D. Wing -- Limits of microcredit : transnational feminism and USAID activities in the United States and Morocco / Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime -- "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 -- Challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist praxis / Nancy A. Naples. |
Summary |
Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the new world order in their communities. |
Subject |
Women social reformers.
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Women political activists.
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Globalization.
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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Women political activists. (OCoLC)fst01178374
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Women social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01178540
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Vrouwen.
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Internationalisatie.
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Actiegroepen.
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Aktivistin (DE-588)4434805-8
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Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0
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Frau.
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Soziale Bewegung (DE-588)4055707-8
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Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Added Author |
Naples, Nancy A.
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Desai, Manisha.
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ISBN |
0415931444 |
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9780415931441 |
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0415931452 (pbk.) |
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9780415931458 (pbk.) |
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