Women resist globalization : mobilizing for livelihood and rights / edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle -- 2. Facets of Emancipation: Women in Movement from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Sheila Rowbotham -- 3. Uncommon Women and the Common Good: Women and Environmental Protest / Temma Kaplan -- 4. Women, 'Community' and the British Miners' Strike of 1984-85 / Meg Allen -- 5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women's Self-Mobilization to Overcome Poverty in Uganda / Sylvia Tamale -- 6. Adithi: Creating Economic and Social Alternatives / Viji Srinivasan -- 7. New Roots for Rights: Women's Responses to Population and Development Policies / Navtej K. Purewal -- 8. Nicaraguan Women in the Age of Globalization / Stephanie Linkogle -- 9. Sexual Politics in Indonesia: From Soekarno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order / Saskia E. Wieringa -- 10. Creating Alternative Spaces: Black Women in Resistance / Pragna Patel and Paminder Parbha -- 11. Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum: Campaigning for Women's Rights in Papua New Guinea / Orovu Sepoe -- 12. Implementation of the Gender Demands Included in the Guatemala Peace Accords: Lessons Learned / Clara Jimeno.

"Women Resist Globalisation is a stimulating account of women's grassroots activism in two important areas: claims to livelihood, and to human rights. Looking at cases ranging from the British miners' strike to the role of gender in the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activist challenges to the boundaries of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy, and politics. The book chronicles diverse examples of resistance: women fighting for environmentalism and reproductive rights, mobilizing against poverty and racism, fighting inequalities imposed by structural adjustment, and campaigning for human rights."--Publisher description.

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