Voicing Demands

Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts

Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan, Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781780329680
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780329703
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women's voice under different contexts.

Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global trends, such as the development of transnational linkages, the rise of conservative forces, the NGOization of feminist movements, and an increase in the power of donors, have created opportunities and challenges for feminist voice and activism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface by Andrea Cornwall
• Introduction: Voicing Demands :Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts
• 1 Well-Chosen Compromises? Feminists Legitimizing Voice in Bangladesh
• 2 Feminisms in Brazil: Voicing and Channelling Women’s Diverse Demands
• 3 The South African Revolution: Protracted or Postponed?
• 4 Voicing Autonomy through Citizenship: The Regional Nationality Campaign and Morocco
• 5 Motivated by Dictatorship, Muted by Democracy: Articulating Women’s Rights in Pakistan
• 6 Feminist Voices and the Regulation, Islamization and Quango-ization of Women’s Activism in Mubarak’s Egypt
• 7 The Many Faces of Feminism: Palestinian Women’s Movements Finding a Voice
• About the Contributors
• Index