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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796021903321

Titolo

Global feminism : transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights / / edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : New York University Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8147-2794-8

1-4798-6175-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism

Transnationalism

Feminism - International cooperation

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

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I Recognizing Transnational Feminism""; ""1 Globalization and Feminism""; ""2 Unlikely Godmother""; ""3 The Evolution of Transnational Feminisms""; ""Part II Local Experiences""; ""4 Turkey�s Modern Paradoxes""; ""5 Working Women of the World Unite?""; ""6 Women�s Organizing in Post-Yugoslav Countries""; ""7 Women as Agents for Development""; ""Part III Activism in Transnational Space""; ""8 Regional Women�s Activism""; ""9 Measuring Feminist Mobilization""

""10 Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web""""Part IV Conclusions""; ""11 Human/Women�s Rights and Feminist""; ""12 Challenges in Transnational""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global



struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and i