International Women's Day - 100 years of struggle: speeches of the International Women's Conference in Copenhagen, March 6-7, 2010
International Women's Day - 100 years of struggle: speeches of the International Women's Conference in Copenhagen, March 6-7, 2010
'The international women’s conference in Copenhagen on March 6 – 7, 2010, was organized to mark the 100 years of the International Women’s Day, which was proposed by Clara Zetkin and decided at a women’s conference in Copenhagen in 1910, in connection with the conference of the Second International in the city.' With a preface from Inger V. Johansen, Gunna Starck, Gitte Pedersen and a welcome speech by Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen and the following contributions: - Sandra Beyer: Introductory speech: Women‘s rights 100 years after – a tentative overview .- Susanne Empacher: Socialism and feminism .- Drífa Snædal: Iceland: Women and Crisis .- Drude Dahlerup: Is ‚State-feminism‘ Transformative or in Fact Counterproductive? – Summary .- Line Barfod Human Trafficking – Women and Children as the Slaves of Today .- Gona Saed: Women in Armed Conflict Areas .- Annette Groth: The Undermining of the Welfare State and Increasing Precariousness – The Consequences .of Neo-Liberalism on Women in the EU and Elsewhere.