Synopses & Reviews
Of all the great social movements of the twentieth century, it is the women's movement that looks set to continue to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. This overview of the international women's movement by the well-known feminist activist Peggy Antrobus asks where are women now--particularly in the Third World--in the struggle against gender inequality? What are the issues--from poverty to sexual and reproductive health to the environment--that they face in different parts of the world? What challenges confront the women's movement and what strategies are needed? Rooted in the author's long experience in seeing these movements in a changing national and global context over the past decades, this intervention will prove an invaluable aid to reflection and action for the next generation of women as they carry through the unfinished business of women's emancipation.
Synopsis
The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.
About the Author
Peggy Antrobus was a founding member of both the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and Development Alteratives with Women for a New Era.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Global Women's Movement: Definitions and Local Origins
3. Global Contexts for an Emerging Movement: The UN Development Decades, 1960s - 1970s
4. A Decade for Women: UN Conferences (1975-1985)
5. The Lost Decade - the 1980s
Introduction
6. It's About Justice: Feminist Leadership Making a Difference on the World Stage
7. Political Strategies and Dynamics of Women's Organising and Feminist Activism
8. The New Context, Challenges and Dilemmas for the Future
9. Leadership for Moving Forward
10. Epilogue: Is Another World Possible?
Selected Readings
Index