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Author : Amrita Basu
Release : 1995
Genre : Feminism
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Book Synopsis The Challenge of Local Feminisms by : Amrita Basu
Download or read book The Challenge of Local Feminisms written by Amrita Basu. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amrita Basu
Release : 2018-02-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Challenge Of Local Feminisms by : Amrita Basu
Download or read book The Challenge Of Local Feminisms written by Amrita Basu. This book was released on 2018-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for feminist activists, scholars, and policymakers. As this book amply demonstrates, women s movements around the world have much to learn from each other. The Challenge of Local Feminisms is the best place to start ... an inspiration and a challenge for us all. —Bella AbzugCochair, Women's Environment and Development Organization
Author : Amrita Basu
Release : 2010-02-23
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Movements in the Global Era by : Amrita Basu
Download or read book Women's Movements in the Global Era written by Amrita Basu. This book was released on 2010-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Movements in the Global Era provides a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South, where women's movements have engaged in complex negotiations with national and international forces. It challenges widely held assumptions about the Western origins and character of local feminisms. The authors locate women's movements within the terrain from which they emerged by exploring their relationships with the state, civil society, and other social movements. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.
Author : Amrita Basu
Release : 1995-07-26
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Challenge Of Local Feminisms by : Amrita Basu
Download or read book The Challenge Of Local Feminisms written by Amrita Basu. This book was released on 1995-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater attention to the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that women's movements are shaped and circumscribed by national levels of development. All the authors reject the notion, proposed by its detractors and champions alike, that feminism is of middle-class origins and Western inspiration. Instead they seek to locate women's movements within the terrain from which they emerge.Virtually all the authors are from the countries or communities about which they write; the few exceptions are women who have spent lengthy periods studying and living in the region. Most are scholars, often in women's studies, and many are closely associated with the movements they describe. Thus, these writers share a commitment to the substantive concerns as well as the collective processes of women's movements. As a key book for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, this volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.
Author : Lena Martinsson
Release : 2018-06-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 350/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms by : Lena Martinsson
Download or read book Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms written by Lena Martinsson. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where frontiers are militarised and classifications systems defining rights and belonging are reinforced, transnational feminist agendas are fundamental. We use the concept of ‘scholarships of hope’ to analyse the diversity of feminist struggles and imaginaries in diverse geopolitical locations. Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms explores subversive practices of knowledge production that challenge Eurocentric scientific models and agendas. The book also explores the tensions and challenges of doing transnational feminist theory at the crossroads between feminist scholarship and feminist activism. In conjunction, these chapters provide a solid analysis framed by feminist methodologies opening complexities and contradictions of individual and collective feminist and trans identity struggles in Argentina, Belarus, Pakistan, Sweden, Taiwan and Turkey. These identities and struggles are rooted in transnational and local genealogies that go beyond the narratives of the West as the origin for democracy and human rights, providing powerful agendas for alternative futures.
