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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 | |