| Description |
vii, 280 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : building feminist movements and organizations : learning from experience / Lydia Alpizar Duran -- Pt. 1. Challenging power and revisioning leadership -- 2. Repoliticization of the women's movement and feminism in Argentina : the experience of Pan y Rosas / Andrea D'Atri -- 3. A Jewish orthodox women's revolution : the case of Kolech / Margalit Shilo -- 4. An insight into feminist organizations / Yamini Mishra and Nalini Singh -- 5. Empowering womanspace : power distribution and dynamics in Christian feminist community / Kelsey Rice and Ann Crews Melton -- Pt. 2. Revisiting organizational practices -- 6. New democratic exercises in Mexican feminist organizations / Adriana Medina Espino -- 7. Linking empowerment and democracy : a challenge to women's groups in Quebec / Nancy Guberman, Jennifer Beeman, Jocelyne Lamoureux, Danielle Fournier and Lise Gervais -- 8. Gender mainstreaming in development organizations : organizational discourse and the perils of institutional change / Nicholas Pialek -- 9. Feminists, factions and fictions in rural Canada / Leona M. English -- Pt. 3. Building organizational capacity and resources -- 10. A model for social change : 15 years investing in Mexican women / Emilienne de Leon, Amanda Mercedes Gigler, Lucero Gonzalez and Margaret Schellenberg -- 11. Reflections on strengthening leadership in community-based organizations in India / Pramada Menon -- 12. Virtual seminar on gender and trade : an innovative process / Veronica Baracat, Phyllida Cox and Norma Sanchis -- Pt. 4. Broadening the support base of movements -- 13. Zimbabwe women writers : 1990-2004 / Mary O. Tandon -- 14. Amnesty for women : building mechanisms to integrate and empower migrant women in Hamburg, Germany / Sol Viviana Rojas and Raquel Aviles Caminero -- 15. The Korean women's trade union : a foothold for women workers' rights / Jinnock Lee -- 16. Power in bridges : a Romanian story about spreading feminist values / Camelia Blaga -- 17. Widening the base of the feminist movement in Pakistan / Shahnaz Iqbal -- Pt. 5. Sustaining work in situations of conflict -- 18. The women's emancipatory constituent process for peace in Colombia / Yusmidia Solano -- 19. From individual struggle to national struggle : Palestinian women in the state of Israel / Trees Zbidat-Kosterman -- 20. Equal representation in a divided society : the feminist experience in Israel / Dalia Sachs and Hannah Safran -- 21. The 'motherhood' strategy of Indonesia's Suara Ibu Peduli / Monika S. W. Doxey -- Pt. 6. Campaigns as a means for movement building -- 22. Remobilizing the Algerian women's movement : the 20 Ans Barakat campaign / Caroline Brac de la Perriere -- 23. Advocating sexual rights : the campaign for the reform of the Turkish penal code / Liz Ercevik Amado -- 24. An inter-American convention on sexual rights and reproductive rights : we're campaigning! / Elizabeth C. Placido -- 25. A matter of life or death : campaigning to build support for the defence of women's rights in Nigeria / Titi Salaam -- 26. The evolution of discourse : the campaign to change the family law in Morocco / Alexandra Pittman, Lucero Gonzalez and Margaret Schellenberg |
| Notes |
"Published in association with the Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID)" -- T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional Zed Books, Limited |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Women -- Societies and clubs.
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Women's rights.
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| Author |
Alpízar Durán, Lydia.
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Payne, Noël D.
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Russo, Anahi.
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Association for Women's Rights in Development.
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| ISBN |
1842778498 (hbk.) |
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9781842778494 (hbk.) |
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9781842778500 (paperback) |
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