linking local struggles and transnational politics
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Naples, Nancy A. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Desai, Manisha > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Matsuoka, Martha
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3486 - B
- Thesaurus
- acties, globalisering, vrouwenorganisaties, wereld, bundel
- Description
- The authors describe how women in different parts of the world face the challenges posed by globalization. This collection contains the following essays: Changing the terms: community activism, globalization, and the dilemma's of transnational feminist praxis / by Nancy A. Naples: Transnational solidarity: women's agency, structural adjustment, and globalization / by Manisha Desai: Women's local and translocal responses: an introduction to the chapters / by Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai: Women to women: dissident citizen diplomacy in Nicaragua / by Clare Weber: From mothers' rights to equal rights: post-Soviet grassroots women's associations / by Alexandra Hrycak: Las mujeres invisibles/The invisible women / by Sharon Ann Navarro: Contesting multiple margins: Asian Indian community activism in the early and late twentieth century / by Bandana Purkayastha: Creating alternatives from a gender perspective: transnational organizing for Maquila workers' rights in Central America / by Jennifer Bickham Mendez: Context, strategy, ground: rural women organizing to confront local/global economic issues / by Betty L. Wells: Linking local efforts with global struggle: Trinidad's National Union of Domestic Employees / by Marina Karides: Women activists in Mali: the global discourse on human rights / by Susanna D. Wing: The limits of microcredit: transnational feminism and USAID activities in the United States and Morocco / by Winifred Poster and Zakia Salime: 'No discrimination whatsoever': women's transnational activism and the evolution of EU sex equality policy / by Rachel A. Cichowski: Redefining security: Okinawa women's resistance to U.S. militarism / by Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka: The challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist praxis / by Nancy A. Naples.