TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naples,Nancy A.
AU  - Desai,Manisha
TI  - Women's activism and globalization: linking local struggles and transnational politics 
SN  - 0415931444
AV  - HQ1236 .W65172 2002
U1  - 303.484 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Women political activists
KW  - Globalization
N1  - 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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