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