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Title Women's activism and globalization : linking local struggles and transnational politics / edited by Nancy A. Naples & and Manisha Desai.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2002.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  303.484 W872WA    Check Shelf
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.
Women political activists.
Globalization.
Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
Women political activists. (OCoLC)fst01178374
Women social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01178540
Vrouwen.
Internationalisatie.
Actiegroepen.
Aktivistin (DE-588)4434805-8
Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0
Frau.
Soziale Bewegung (DE-588)4055707-8
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Naples, Nancy A.
Desai, Manisha.
ISBN 0415931444
9780415931441
0415931452 (pbk.)
9780415931458 (pbk.)
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