Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations : Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?
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Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations : Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?

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Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations : Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?

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Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet Civil Service Organisation (CSO) research tends to ignore considerations of gender and the rich history of activist feminist organisations is rarely examined.This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in these organisations. Featuring contrasting studies from a wide range of contributors from different parts of the world, it covers emerging issues such as the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women's lives.

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Table of contents

  1. WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Images, figures, maps and tables
  5. About the authors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. 1. Introducing the anthology
  9. 2. ‘Empowerment’ as women’s emancipation? A global analysis of the empowerment paradigm and the influence of feminism in women’s NGOs
  10. Section One. Organising for emancipation
  11. 3. Se Non Ora Quando? (‘If not now, when?’) The birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy
  12. 4. Street harassment activism in the twenty-first century
  13. 5. New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot
  14. 6. How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study
  15. 7. From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalisation in Uruguay
  16. 8. Sustainability from the bottom up: women as change agents in the Niger Delta
  17. Section Two: Emancipating organisation(s)
  18. 9. A women’s NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society
  19. 10. Gender democracy and women’s self-empowerment: a case of Somali diaspora civil society
  20. 11. The role of civil society organisations in emancipating Portuguese Roma women
  21. 12. Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women’s activism in Morocco
  22. 13. Working within associations: recognition in the public space for women?
  23. 14. Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women’s emancipation in the workplace
  24. 15. Examining and contextualising Kenya’s Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) through an African feminist lens
  25. 16. Organising for emancipation/emancipating organisations?
  26. Index