Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insight by leading feminists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. With clear-eyed realism and passionate optimism these articles raise crucial historical, organizational, ethical, conceptual, strategic and practical issues facing feminists today. The personal accounts, political speeches and academic articles collected here reveal a vibrant and multifaceted transnational feminist community redefining wealth, work, peace, democracy, sexuality, family, human rights, development, community, and citizenship. They provide a sense of inter-related issues being addressed at local, national, regional and global levels in generative ways which both honor local and global movements.
Synopsis
How can the local, grassroots successes of feminist organisations be sustained and transformed as women enter the larger institutional arena and succeed in accessing governments and non-governmental organisations? How can feminists deal with the many historical, organizational, ethical, conceptual, strategic and practical issues facing them today? What are the forces arrayed against them? The contributors all have direct practical experience of women's activism and a shared understanding of the autonomous women's movement as the source of feminist theory, power and vision. With clear-eyed realism and passionate optimism they reveal a vibrant trans-national feminist community in struggle. They describe how it is redefining wealth, work, peace, democracy, sexuality, family, human rights, development, community, and citizenship, and dealing with issues in ways which both honour local specifities and enrich global movements.
About the Author
Luciana Ricciutelli is Editor-in-Chief, Inanna Publications and Education Inc, York University, Toronto.
Angela Miles is in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
Margaret McFadden is at Emory University
Table of Contents
Preface--Marilyn Porter * Introduction--Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles, Margaret McFadden * Context--Vandana Shiva; Arlie Hothschild * Feminist Organizing * Global Contexts--Jindy Pettman; Devaki Jain; Charlotte Bunch; Brooke A. Ackerly; Bisi Adeleye--Fayemi, Nighat Said Khan * Local and National Movements* Global Impacts--Bina D'Costa, Terisa E. Turner, Leigh S. Brownhill, Rekha Pande, Annelise Orleck * Political Activism and State Policy--Lenore Lyons, Sylvia Tamale, Jeanne Bisilliat, R. Amy Elman * Challenges in Practice and Vision--Sally Roesch Wagner, Patricia McFadden, Sonia E. Alvarez, Bonnie J. Morris, Line Nyhagen Predelli, Choe Haejoang * Conclusion--Alda Facio