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Title Majority-minority relations in contemporary women's movements : strategic sisterhood / by Line Nyhagen Predelli [and others]
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages)
Series Citizenship, gender and diversity
Contents Women's movements, gender equality, citizenship and ethnic diversity in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom -- Women's movements in Norway, Spain and the UK -- Citizenship, recognition and justice -- Political opportunities and violence against women -- Researching women's movements -- Towards strategic sisterhood on balanced terms: recognition, participation, inclusion and solidarity -- Seeking policy impact -- Conclusion
Summary White, Black, indigenous, national and ethnic minority women's movements in Europe are rooted in different communities and have emerged along separate paths. This book examines how relations between ethnic majority and minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom have developed and are being talked about by movement activists. Different historical and socio-political factors, state structures, and social movement and civil society characteristics provide the background for why ethnic majority and minority women have organized separately along racial and ethnic lines. In turn, separate organizing, as well as differing political interests, have made it challenging for women's movement organizations to cooperate across racial and ethnic divides. A complex picture of conflict and disunity, as well as strategic sisterhood alliance, characterizes their relationships. This book examines the gender, racial and ethnic patterns of women's movement mobilization, the articulation of critiques against majority women's movements from minority women, responses from majority women's movements, and efforts at joint mobilization and strategic sisterhood in the area of violence against women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Feminism -- Europe
Minority women -- Political activity -- Europe
Women -- Political activity -- Europe
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Ethnic relations
Feminism
Minority women -- Political activity
Women -- Political activity
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Predelli, Line Nyhagen, 1966-
ISBN 9781137020666
1137020660
9780230246584
0230246583