| Description |
ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Globalization and feminism : opportunities and obstacles for activism in the global arena / Myra Marx Ferree -- Unlikely godmother : the UN and the global women's movement / Margaret Snyder -- The evolution of transnational feminisms : consensus, conflict, and new dynamics / Aili Mari Tripp -- Turkey's modern paradoxes : identity politics, women's agency, and universal rights / Yakin Ertürk -- Working women of the world unite : labor organizing and transnational gender solidarity among domestic workers in Hong Kong / Sarah Swider -- Women's organizing in post-Yugoslav countries : talking about "donors" / Aida Bagi -- Women as agents for development : learning from the experiences of women in Finland / Hilkka Pietilä -- Regional women's activism : African women's networks and the African Union / Melinda Adams -- Measuring feminist mobilization : cross-national convergences and transnational networks in Western Europe / Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur -- Transnational feminist NGOs on the Web : networks and identities in the global North and South / Myra Marx Ferree and Tetyana Pudrovska -- Human/women's rights and feminist transversal politics / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Challenges in transnational feminist mobilization / Aili Mari Tripp |
| Analysis |
Transnational women's movements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminism -- International cooperation.
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Transnationalism -- Women.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Ferree, Myra Marx.
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Tripp, Aili Mari.
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| LC no. |
2006004307 |
| ISBN |
9780814727355 cloth |
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9780814727362 paperback |
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0814727352 cloth |
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0814727360 paperback |
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