Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights

Published by New York University Press 2006

Global Feminism

Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights

Edited by: Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479861750.001.0001

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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 impact in the global world.
Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

Author / Editor information

Ferree Myra Marx :

Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin.Tripp Aili Mari :

Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

Nancy A. Naples,author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis and Activist Research:
Global Feminism offers a powerful analysis of the intersection of feminism and globalization, national women's movements and transnational politics, and activism and scholarship. Many of the authors reflect on their experiences as activists to produce a rich examination of feminist mobilization in the 21st century. Among the many strengths of this collection are the ways in which the authors make visible the contradictions of globalization for women's empowerment and evaluate feminist strategies for challenging male domination in its many forms. This book advances our understanding of how to increase social justice and democratic practice in movement organizations and feminist networks. The authors vividly demonstrate what feminism has to offer all movements for social justice.

Amrita Basu,editor of The Challenge of Local Feminism: Women's Movements in Global Perspective:
Global Feminism is an extremely useful and important volume that systematically examines transnational women's movements as well as raises a number of important theoretical questions about global rights and transnational organizing.

This important study is pitched to an academic community that remains highly patriarchal. Thus, it should make a valuable impact on this audience.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I: Recognizing Transnational Feminism
1 Globalization and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena Myra Marx Ferree Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Unlikely Godmother: The UN and the Global Women’s Movement Margaret Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3 The Evolution of Transnational Feminisms: Consensus, Conflict, and New Dynamics Aili Mari Tripp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part II: Local Experiences: Encountering the Transnational
4 Turkey’s Modern Paradoxes: Identity Politics,Women’s Agency, and Universal Rights Yakin Ertürk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5 Working Women of the World Unite? Labor Organizing and Transnational Gender Solidarity among Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Sarah Swider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6 Women’s Organizing in Post-Yugoslav Countries: Talking about “Donors” Aida Bagic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7 Women as Agents for Development: Learning from the Experiences of Women in Finland? Hilkka Pietilä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Part III: Activism in Transnational Space
8 Regional Women’s Activism: African Women’s Networks and the African Union Melinda Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 Measuring Feminist Mobilization: Cross-National Convergences and Transnational Networks in Western Europe Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
10 Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: Networks and Identities in the Global North and South Myra Marx Ferree and Tetyana Pudrovska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part IV: Conclusions
11 Human/Women’s Rights and Feminist Transversal Politics Nira Yuval-Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
12 Challenges in Transnational Feminist Mobilization Aili Mari Tripp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: July 1, 2006
ISBN: 9781479861750