The Challenge of Local Feminisms

Women's Movements in Global Perspective

Author: Amrita Basu
Secondary Author: C. Elizabeth McGrory
ISBN: 9780813326283

This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womens movements worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater attention ot the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that womens 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 Western inspired and of middle-class origins. Instead they seek to locate womens movements within the terrain from which they emerge. 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. }This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis,

Publisher: Westview Press
Publish Date: 1995

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Global Feminism)