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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170978203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1-135-95516-6; 1-135-95517-4; 0-203-80069-9; 0-203-80073-7; 1-280-07198-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NaplesNancy A; DesaiManisha
• Disciplina: 303.48/4
• Soggetti: Women social reformers; Women political activists; Globalization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; 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 AmericaContext, 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.MilitarismThe Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the ""new world order"" in their communities.