Women Resist Globalization
Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-85649-877-7 (ISBN)
Description
Globalization has intensified the pressures on poor women. They have resisted in both the North and the South in movements that are exclusively female and in others where women play a significant part.
This book brings together scholars and organizers to record and analyze women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. Through cases ranging from the British miners' strike to making gender central to the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activists challenging the boundaries of prevailing assumptions of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy and indeed politics. It contributes to the ongoing debate about the scope of women's movements, while demonstrating how women's activism around needs and rights is a crucial element in the global struggle for equality and justice.
Essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, development, politics, sociology, geography and labour studies - as well as for activists everywhere.
This book brings together scholars and organizers to record and analyze women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. Through cases ranging from the British miners' strike to making gender central to the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activists challenging the boundaries of prevailing assumptions of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy and indeed politics. It contributes to the ongoing debate about the scope of women's movements, while demonstrating how women's activism around needs and rights is a crucial element in the global struggle for equality and justice.
Essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, development, politics, sociology, geography and labour studies - as well as for activists everywhere.
Reviews / Votes
'The radical vision and historical imagination of Rowbotham and Linkogle give these movements, so often dismissed as sporadic or fragmentary, a rightful place in the history of resistance to hegemonic powers. An important contribution to current discourse on international feminism.'Swasti Mitter
'Mobilizations against the harshest effects of globalization on people's daily lives world wide are predominantly initiated and sustained by the visions and leadership of women. It is inspiring to read this new collection by Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle highlighting the breadth and creativity of women's ongoing battles to create better lives for all. A tonic for these times.'
Lynne Segal, author of Why Feminism: Gender, Psychology, Politics
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-877-7 (9781856498777)
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Persons
Sheila Rowbotham has published extensively on women's history. She is a research fellow in sociology at the University of Manchester, England.
Stephanie Linkogle has written on women's movements in Latin America in her book Gender Practice and Faith in Nicaragua and in journals such as Bulletin of Latin American Research, Race and Class, and Sociological Research On-Line. She is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex.
Stephanie Linkogle has written on women's movements in Latin America in her book Gender Practice and Faith in Nicaragua and in journals such as Bulletin of Latin American Research, Race and Class, and Sociological Research On-Line. She is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex.
Content
1. Introduction - Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle
2. Facets of Emancipation: Women in Movement from the Eighteenth Century to the Present - Sheila Rowbotham
3. Uncommon Women and the Common Good: Women and Environmental Protest - Temma Kaplan
4. Women Community and British Miners' Strike of 1984-85 - Meg Allen
5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women's Self-Mobilization to Overcome Poverty in Uganda - Sylvia Tamale
6. Adithi - Creating Economic and Social Alternatives - Viji Srinivasan
7. New Roots for Rights: Women's Responses to Population and Development Policies - Navtej Purewal
8. Nicaraguan Women in the Age of Globalization - Stephanie Linkogle
9. Sexual Politics in Indonesia: From Soeharno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order - Saskia E Wieringa
10. Creating Alternative Spaces: Black Women in Resistance - Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters interviewed by Paminder Parbha
11. Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum: Campaigning for Women's Rights in Papua New Guinea - Orovu Seope
12. Guatemala: Implementation of the Gender Demands Included in the Peace Accords and Lessons Learned - Clara Jimeno
2. Facets of Emancipation: Women in Movement from the Eighteenth Century to the Present - Sheila Rowbotham
3. Uncommon Women and the Common Good: Women and Environmental Protest - Temma Kaplan
4. Women Community and British Miners' Strike of 1984-85 - Meg Allen
5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Women's Self-Mobilization to Overcome Poverty in Uganda - Sylvia Tamale
6. Adithi - Creating Economic and Social Alternatives - Viji Srinivasan
7. New Roots for Rights: Women's Responses to Population and Development Policies - Navtej Purewal
8. Nicaraguan Women in the Age of Globalization - Stephanie Linkogle
9. Sexual Politics in Indonesia: From Soeharno's Old Order to Soeharto's New Order - Saskia E Wieringa
10. Creating Alternative Spaces: Black Women in Resistance - Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters interviewed by Paminder Parbha
11. Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum: Campaigning for Women's Rights in Papua New Guinea - Orovu Seope
12. Guatemala: Implementation of the Gender Demands Included in the Peace Accords and Lessons Learned - Clara Jimeno