Global Feminist Politics
Identities in a Changing World
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Global Feminist Politics examines the changing global context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms. It acknowledges the existence of dissent and debate among feminists, asserting that such debate leads to innovation in theory and practice. This book reaches the conclusion that the future of the women's movement depends upon a dialogue which is unafraid to cut across perceived differences.
Focusing on key issues raise by a feministic commitment to global political change, this book covers subjects including:
* the relevance of contemporary feminist politics for younger women
* gendered accounts of genocide and catastrophe
* exile, migration and diaspora
* gender and the internet
* women and the nationalist movement in India
* gender issues in Pakistan, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East.
Featuring an international panel of cutting-edge feminist thinkers, Global Feminist Politics demonstrates the innovative work being undertaken in the academic and professional worlds, as well as in women's activism. It is an invaluable resource for students in Women's Studies and Development Studies, as well as all those interested in the development of contemporary global feminism.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Trying to connect you
- 1: The women’s movement revisited: Areas of concern for the future
- 2: Despite diversity: Women’s unity in Western Cape, South Africa (1980–94)
- 3: Political thoughts and domestic lives: Women activists in North India
- 4: Gender, ethnicity and ‘the community’: Locations with multiple identities
- 5: Is there a space for gender in modernist planning?
- 6: The feminisation of catastrophe: Narrating women’s silences
- 7: Gendered diaspora identities: South African women, exile and migration (c. 1960–95)
- 8: No fixed abode: Feminism in the 1990s
- 9: Who knows best?: Politics and ethics in feminist research into ‘race’
- 10: Fast capitalism, fast feminism and some fast food for thought
- Conclusion: Reflections on global feminisms