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Women's activism and globalization : linking local struggles and transnational politics / edited by Nancy A. Naples & and Manisha Desai.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415931444
  • 9780415931441
  • 0415931452
  • 9780415931458
Other title:
  • Women's activism and globalisation
  • Women's activism and globalisation : Linking local struggles and transnational politics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236 .W65172 2002
Contents:
1. Changing the Terms: Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- 2. Transnational Solidarity: Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization / Manisha Desai -- 3. Women's Local and Translocal Responses: An Introduction to the Chapters / Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai -- 4. Women to Women: Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua / Clare Weber -- 5. From Mothers' Rights to Equal Rights: Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations / Alexandra Hrycak -- 6. Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women / Sharon Ann Navarro -- 7. Contesting Multiple Margins: Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early and Late Twentieth Century / Bandana Purkayastha -- 8. Creating Alternatives from a Gender Perspective: Transnational Organizing for Maquila Workers' Rights in Central America / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- 9. Context, Strategy, Ground: Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/Global Economic Issues / Betty L. Wells -- 10. Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle: Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees / Marina Karides -- 11. Women Activists in Mali: The Global Discourse on Human Rights / Susanna D. Wing -- 12. The Limits of Microcredit: Transnational Feminism and USAID Activities in the United States and Morocco / Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime -- 13. "No Discrimination Whatsoever": Women's Transnational Activism and the Evolution of EU Sex Equality Policy / Rachel A. Cichowski -- 14. Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S. Militarism / Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka -- 15. The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321) and index.

1. Changing the Terms: Community Activism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- 2. Transnational Solidarity: Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization / Manisha Desai -- 3. Women's Local and Translocal Responses: An Introduction to the Chapters / Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai -- 4. Women to Women: Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua / Clare Weber -- 5. From Mothers' Rights to Equal Rights: Post-Soviet Grassroots Women's Associations / Alexandra Hrycak -- 6. Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women / Sharon Ann Navarro -- 7. Contesting Multiple Margins: Asian Indian Community Activism in the Early and Late Twentieth Century / Bandana Purkayastha -- 8. Creating Alternatives from a Gender Perspective: Transnational Organizing for Maquila Workers' Rights in Central America / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- 9. Context, Strategy, Ground: Rural Women Organizing to Confront Local/Global Economic Issues / Betty L. Wells -- 10. Linking Local Efforts with Global Struggle: Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees / Marina Karides -- 11. Women Activists in Mali: The Global Discourse on Human Rights / Susanna D. Wing -- 12. The Limits of Microcredit: Transnational Feminism and USAID Activities in the United States and Morocco / Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime -- 13. "No Discrimination Whatsoever": Women's Transnational Activism and the Evolution of EU Sex Equality Policy / Rachel A. Cichowski -- 14. Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to U.S. Militarism / Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka -- 15. The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis / Nancy A. Naples.

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