| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 279 pages). |
| Series |
Feminist theory and politics |
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Feminist theory and politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index. |
| Contents |
Modernity, Social Movements, and Democracy -- Epochal Change (1) -- Liberalism, Individualism, and Civil Society -- Marxism, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggle -- Republicanism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere -- Anarchism, Power, and Movement -- New Times, New Social Movements, New Democracy -- Epochal Change (2) -- Associations, States, and Markets -- Radicalizing Civil Society -- Radical Democracy and Hegemony -- A Postmodern Politics of Difference -- Constructing a Woman-Friendly Polity -- Gendered Exclusions and Feminist Explanations -- Feminist Reconstructions of the Polity -- Democratic Limitations -- Reconstructing the Feminist Movement -- Democratizing the Feminist Movement -- Black and Third World Feminist Interventions -- Democratic Innovations (1) -- Globalizing Democracy, Globalizing Movements -- Epochal Change (3) -- Modernizing Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- Demarchy on a Global Scale -- Marxism and the Globalization of Class Struggle -- Globalizing Radical Civil Society -- A Postmodern Politics of Connection -- Reconstructing Global Feminism, Engendering Global Democracy -- Gendering Epochal Change -- Reconstructing the Polity in an Era of Globalization -- Reconstructing Global Feminism -- Democratic Innovations (2). |
| Summary |
"In Global Democracy, Social Movements, and Feminism, Catherine Eschle examines the relationship between social movements and democracy in social and political thought. She does so in the context of arguments about the exclusions and mobilizations generated by gender hierarchies and the impact of globalization. A range of approaches in social and political thought are considered: long-standing liberal, republican, marxist, and anarchist traditions; postmarxist and postmodernist innovations; and recent efforts to theorize democracy and social movements at a global level. The author foregrounds the contribution of feminist theory and movement practices, drawing particular attention to black and third-world feminist interventions in debates about the democratization of feminism itself. She discusses the ways in which such debates are increasingly played out on a global scale, as feminists grapple with the implications of globalization for movement organization." "Eschle argues that these feminist movement debates have generated important reworkings of the concepts of power, politics, agency, and change. They point to ways in which the most vulnerable women in the world could gain some control over the globalizing processes shaping their lives. The book concludes by assessing the significance of these feminist innovations for the theorization of democracy and social movements more generally in an era of global transformation."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Democracy.
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Social movements.
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Feminism.
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Globalization.
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HISTORY -- Modern.
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Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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Feminisme.
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Democratie.
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Sociale bewegingen.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eschle, Catherine. Global democracy, social movements, and feminism. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001 0813391490 9780813391496 (DLC) 00043989 (OCoLC)45002109 |
| ISBN |
9780786748198 (electronic book) |
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0786748192 (electronic book) |
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0813391490 (alkaline paper) |
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9780813391496 (alkaline paper) |
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