Facets of emancipation: women in movement from the eighteenth century to the present / Sheila Rowbotham -- Uncommon women and the common good: women and environmental protest / Temma Kaplan -- Women, "community" and the british miners' strike of 1984-1985 / Meg Allen -- Between a rock and a hard place: women's self-mobilization to overcome poverty in Uganda / Sylvia Tamale -- Adithi: creating economic and social alternatives / Viji Srinivasan -- New roots for rights: women's responses to population and development policies / Navtej K. Purewal -- Nicaraguan women in the age of globalization / Stephanie Linkogle -- Sexual politics in Indonesia: from Soekarno's old order to Soeharto's new order / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Creating alternative spaces: black women in resistance / Pragna Patel, Paminder Parbha -- Individual and community rights advocacy forum: campaigning for women's rights in Papua New Guinea / Orovu Sepoe -- Implementation of the gender demands included in the Guatemala peace accords: Lessons Learned / Clara Jimeno.
Summary
Scholars and organizers record and analyse women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. [back cover].