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Acknowledgements | |
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Foreword | |
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Introduction: our dreams, our nightmares, our voices... | |
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Why this book? | |
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What is this book? | |
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Are we really gonna 'make a difference'? | |
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Will dualism tear us apart? The challenges of fragmentation in identity politics for young feminists in the New Global Order | |
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The politics of irreconcilable differences | |
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Why identity, why now? | |
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The fragmenting impact of war and militarization | |
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Fundamentalism's divisiveness | |
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The challenge of globalization and neo-liberal economic restructuring | |
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Divided and conquered? | |
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The role of young feminist voices in overcoming fragmentation | |
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Channelling discourse, effecting change: young women and sexual rights | |
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Changing paradigms and global contexts | |
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Situating young women: sexuality redefined in changing circumstances | |
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Young women reshaping discourse | |
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Conclusion | |
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From tragedy and injustice to rights and empowerment: accountability in the economic realm | |
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Money makes the world go round | |
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Alternatives in the works | |
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Young women using human rights | |
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Incoherence in international law | |
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An economically just future? | |
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Seeking techno-justice | |
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The politics of new technology | |
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What exactly are the 'new technologies'? | |
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New genetic technologies | |
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Robotics, surveillance and military technologies | |
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Information and communication technologies | |
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Nanotechnology | |
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What does gender have to do with it? | |
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Feminist engagement with science and technology | |
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Making sense of technology and social justice | |
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Ensuring gender justice in a techno-scientific world | |
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Smoke screen or solution? Genetic engineering and food insecurity | |
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Genetic engineering (GE): the answer to food insecurity? | |
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From the green to the gene revolution: can GE really stamp out hunger? | |
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The costs of the new technology | |
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Economic and political agendas | |
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Strategies of resistance | |
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Women's issues and feminist engagement | |
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Struggling against globalization | |
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Supporting ecological farming | |
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Fighting for human women's rights | |
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'You'll know what we are talking about when you grow older': a Third Wave critique of anti-trafficking ideology, globalization and conflict in Nepal | |
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The anti-trafficking movement | |
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Purity | |
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Kumari: the virgin goddess | |
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'Rescue': an unviable strategy | |
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A (very small and cramped) room of our own | |
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The missing link: accountable leadership | |
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A changing landscape | |
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New models, new changes | |
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From orphaned china dolls to long-distance daughters: a call for solidarity across borders | |
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The politics of transnational adoption | |
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From a migration of china dolls | |
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The adopted Vietnamese experience | |
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Stepping outside the doll's house: strategies for creating a new world | |
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Conclusion | |
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www.coming? Imaginings on a world of wealth and well-being | |
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The vocabulary and language of poverty (from the archives 200-325 pre-Council; 1880-2005 AD) | |
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The measurement of poverty and strategies of poverty alleviation (from the archives 200-325 pre-Council; 1880-2005 AD) | |
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Feminist perspectives on poverty (from the archives 200-1100 pre-Council; 1105-2005 AD) | |
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Reflections on the World Social Forum as a space for alternative engagements | |
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Promoting inter-movement engagement | |
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Constructing alternative ways of acting | |
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Young women taking on the challenges from within feminist movements | |
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The age of consent | |
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Rooting out injustice: discussions with radical young women in Toronto, Canada | |
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Facing realities in Toronto, Canada | |
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Liisa: the 30 June Committee | |
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Farrah: Project Threadbare | |
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Rachel: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty | |
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Rafeef: Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group | |
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Confronting oppression in relation to feminism | |
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Challenges and strengths | |
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A human rights instrument that works for women: the ICC as a tool for gender justice | |
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Background | |
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Achieving women's rights goals | |
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A human rights tool | |
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Young women's activism and the ICC | |
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Limitations of the ICC for women's rights | |
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The way forward | |
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A note from Zakia Afrin | |
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Cyber girls: hello ... are you out there? | |
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Feminists using internet communications differently | |
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The possibilities are endless - but for whom? | |
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The internet as an effective tool for feminists | |
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Working across countries, continents and contexts | |
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'I can't work today, the server is down' | |
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Communication and technology - by feminists, for feminists | |
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Feminine whispers: notes on hysteria and loving commitment | |
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Scheherazade | |
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Dora | |
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The desiring woman | |
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The overwhelmed man | |
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We exist! Voices of male feminism | |
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Interview with Dean Peacock, Rodney Fortuin, Boitshepo Lesetedi, Dumisani Rebombo, Mbuyiselo Botha and Regis Mtutu | |
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Separation anxiety: the schisms and schemas of media advocacy, or 'Where are you tonight, Langston Hughes?' | |
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'Women's issues' rather than feminism | |
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Isms, schisms and schemas | |
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The identikit and the moment of ambivalence | |
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I wonder if it's that simple ... | |
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Moving the personal to the political: personal struggles as a basis for social justice advocacy | |
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Situating myself | |
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Working with inherent tensions | |
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The origins of an identity | |
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Defining the particular | |
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Surviving the betrayal of ideasl | |
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Moving the personal to the public | |
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Feminist leadership for feminist futures ... | |
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Contemplating the task ahead | |
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Starting with ourselves: the feminist movement's internal challenges | |
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Passing on power - what about the power in sharing? | |
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Spirituality | |
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Sustainability | |
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Relation to other movements - allies or adversaries? | |
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The state and institutions of authority | |
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Moving forward | |
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You wonder why I say I'm feminist 2005 | |
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Editors and contributors | |
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Index | |