Global Feminism Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights

Name: Global Feminism Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780814727362

ISBN-10: 0814727360

ISBN-13: 9780814727362

Edition: 2006

Authors: Myra Marx Ferree, Aili Mari Tripp

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View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface. This important study is pitched to an academic community that remains highly patriarchal. Thus, it should make a valuable impact on this audience. --Choice: Highly reccomended. "Global Feminism is an extremely useful and important volume that systematically examines transnational women's movements as well as raises a number of important theoretical questions about global rights and transnational organizing." --Amrita Basu, editor of "The Challenge of Local Feminism: Women's Movements in Global Perspective" "Global Feminism offers a powerful analysis of the intersection of feminism and globalization, national women's movements and transnational…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface




Recognizing Transnational Feminism



Globalization and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena




Unlikely Godmother: The UN and the Global Women's Movement




The Evolution of Transnational Feminisms: Consensus, Conflict, and New Dynamics




Local Experiences: Encountering the Transnational



Turkey's Modern Paradoxes: Identity Politics, Women's Agency, and Universal Rights




Working Women of the World Unite? Labor Organizing and Transnational Gender Solidarity among Domestic Workers in Hong Kong




Women's Organizing in Post-Yugoslav Countries: Talking about "Donors"




Women as Agents for Development: Learning from the Experiences of Women in Finland?




Activism in Transnational Space



Regional Women's Activism: African Women's Networks and the African Union




Measuring Feminist Mobilization: Cross-National Convergences and Transnational Networks in Western Europe




Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: Networks and Identities in the Global North and South




Conclusions



Human/Women's Rights and Feminist Transversal Politics




Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization



About the Contributors


Index