The Challenge Of Local Feminisms (eBook, PDF)

Women's Movements In Global Perspective
Redaktion: Basu, Amrita

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements worldwide. It challenges the assumptions that local feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that women's movements are shaped and circumscribed by national levels of development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429961472
• Artikelnr.: 54154802

Autorenporträt

Amrita Basu is professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. C. Elizabeth McGrory works as a consultant on reproductive health and women's rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Asia
Discovering the Positive Within the Negative: The Women's Movement in a Changing China
From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women's Movement
Men in Seclusion, Women in Public: Rokeya's Dream and Women's Struggles in Bangladesh
Rebirthing Babaye: The Women's Movement in the Philippines
Africa and the Middle East
The Dawn of a New Day: Redefining South African Feminism
The Many Faces of Feminism in Namibia
The Mother of Warriors and Her Daughters: The Women's Movement in Kenya
Wifeism and Activism: The Nigerian Women's Movement
Claiming Feminism, Claiming Nationalism: Women's Activism in the Occupied Territories
Latin America
Out of the Kitchens and onto the Streets: Women's Activism in Peru
Democracy in the Country and in the Home: The Women's Movement in Chile
Brazilian Feminism and Women's Movements: A Two
Way Street
Building Bridges: The Growth of Popular Feminism in Mexico
Russia, Europe, and the United States
Democracy Without Women Is No Democracy: Women's Struggles in Postcommunist Russia
Finding a Voice: Women in Postcommunist Central Europe
Extending the Boundaries of Citizenship: Women's Movements of Western Europe
Feminism Lives: Building a Multicultural Women's Movement in the United States
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