| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 325 pages) : illustration |
| Contents |
Globalization and feminism : opportunities and obstacles for activism in the global arena / Myra Marx Ferree -- Unlikely godmother : the UN and the global women's movement / Margaret Snyder -- The evolution of transnational feminisms : consensus, conflict, and new dynamics / Aili Mari Tripp -- Turkey's modern paradoxes : identity politics, women's agency, and universal rights / Yakin Ertürk -- Working women of the world unite? : labor organizing and transnational gender solidarity among domestic workers in Hong Kong / Sarah Swider -- Women's organizing in post-Yugoslav countries : talking about "donors" / Aida Bagić -- Women as agents for development : learning from the experiences of women in Finland? / Hilkka Pietilä -- Regional women's activism : African women's networks and the African Union / Melinda Adams -- Measuring feminist mobilization : cross-national convergences and transnational networks in Western Europe / Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur -- Transnational feminist NGOs on the Web : networks and identities in the global North and South / Myra Marx Ferree and Tetyana Pudrovska -- Human/women's rights and feminist transversal politics / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Challenges in transnational feminist mobilization / Aili Mari Tripp |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on June 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminism -- International cooperation.
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Transnationalism.
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Feminism
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feminism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism.
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Feminism -- International cooperation.
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Feminismus
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Transnationalism.
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Frauenbewegung
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Internationale Kooperation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferree, Myra Marx, editor
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Tripp, Aili Mari, editor
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| ISBN |
9781479861750 |
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1479861758 |
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