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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968061003321

Autore

Franzway Suzanne

Titolo

Making feminist politics : transnational alliances between women and labor / / Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613017703

9781283017701

1283017709

9780252093081

0252093089

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FonowMary Margaret <1949->

Disciplina

331.88082

Soggetti

Women in the labor movement

Feminism - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Feminist politics and transnational labor movements -- Sexual politics, activism, and everyday life -- Sexual politics, labor, and the family -- Political spaces : centers, conferences, and campaigns -- Feminist politics in international labor -- Women's activism in the International Metalworkers' Federation -- Another world is possible for women, if -- Conclusion : the future of feminist politics in global union movements.

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the world both inside and outside the home and highlighting the innovative ways women workers attain their common



goals, Making Feminist Politics lays the groundwork for recognition of the total individual in the future of feminist politics within global union movements.