Building Feminist Movements and Organizations (eBook, PDF)

Global Perspectives
Redaktion: Durán, Lydia Alpízar; Russo, Anahi; Payne, Noël D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women's movements? This groundbreaking collection of essays by activists from all corners of the globe explores what it means to be an influential women's organization, and what it takes to build the kinds of movements needed to transform women's lives. From how to build successful participatory democratic processes and implement shared leadership models, to lessons on overcoming internal organizational divisions, the case studies in this collection focus not only on the "what" but also the "how" of movement building. Those concerned with how to effect sustainable change will find not only much food for thought, but also an abundance of creative ideas and innovative strategies - served up with a uniquely feminist twist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848130562
• Artikelnr.: 38424278

Autorenporträt

Lydia Alpízar Durán has worked with AWID since 2003 as Manager of the Feminist Movements and Organizations Programme, and has recently been appointed as the organization's new Executive Director. Noel Payne is an activist and alternative entrepreneur promoting the development of the Costa Rican organic movement. Anahi Russo Garrido is a Mexican-Canadian anthropologist. She is currently a PhD student in Women's and Gender studies at Rutgers University. She previously worked with AWID as a research assistant contributing to organizational strengthening and movement building.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Building feminist movements and organizations: learning from
experience / Lydia Alpízar Durán Part I: Challenging power and revisioning
leadership 1. Re-politicization of the women's movement and feminism in
Argentina: the experience of Pan y Rosas / Andrea D'Atri 2. A Jewish
Orthodox women's revolution - the case of Kolech / Margalit Shilo 3. An
insight into feminist organizations / Yamini Mishra and Nalini Singh 4.
Empowering womanspace: power distribution and dynamics in Christian
feminist community / Kelsey Rice and Ann Crews Melton Part II: Revisiting
common organizational practices 5. New democratic exercises in Mexican
feminist organizations / Adriana Medina Espino 6. Linking empowerment and
democracy: a challenge to women's groups in Quebec / Nancy Guberman,
Jennifer Beeman, Jocelyne Lamoreux, Danielle Fournier and Lise Gervais 7.
Gender mainstreaming in development organizations: organizational discourse
and the perils of institutional change / Nicholas Piálek 8. Feminists,
factions and fictions in rural Canada / Leona M. English Part III: Building
organizational capacity and resources 9. A model for social change: 15
years investing in Mexican women / Emilienne de León, Amanda Mercedes
Gigler, Lucero González and Margaret Schellenberg 10. Reflections on
strengthening leadership in community based organizations in India /
Pramada Menon 11. Virtual Seminar on Gender and Trade - an innovative
process / Verónica Baracat, Phyllida Cox and Norma Sanchis Part IV:
Broadening the base of movements 12. Zimbabwe Women Writers: from inception
to 2004 / Mary O. Tandon 13. Amnesty for Women: building mechanisms to
integrate and empower migrant women in Hamburg, Germany / Sol Viviana Rojas
and Raquel Aviles Caminero 14. The Korean Women's Trade Union: a foothold
for women's workers rights / Jinock Lee 15. Power in bridges: a Romanian
story about spreading feminist values / Camelia Blaga 16. Widening the base
of the feminist movement in Pakistan / Shahnaz Iqbal Part V: Advancing
movements' work in situations of conflict 17. The Women's Emancipatory
Constituent process for peace in Colombia / Yusmidia Solano 18. From
individual struggle to national struggle: Palestinian women in the State of
Israel / Trees Zbidat-Kosterman 19. Equal representation in a divided
society: the feminist experience in Israel / Dalia Sachs and Hannah Safran
20. The valued identity of 'motherhood' as strategically used by
Indonesia's Suara Ibu Peduli / Monika S.W. Doxey Part VI: Campaigns as a
means to build movements 21. The remobilization of the Algerian women's
movement through the 20 Ans Barakat campaign / Caroline Brac de la Perrière
22. Advocating sexual rights: the campaign for the reform of the Turkish
penal code / Liz Ecervik Amado 23. An Inter-American Convention on Sexual
Rights and Reproductive Rights: we're campaigning! / Elizabeth C. Plácido
24. A matter of life or death: campaigning to build support for the defence
of women's rights in Nigeria / Titi Salaam 25. The evolution of discourse:
the campaign to change the family law in Morocco / Alexandra Pittman (+
endnote: 'in association with...') Editors and contributors