Women Resist Globalization

Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights

Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Secondary Author: Stephanie Linkogle
ISBN: 9781856498777

Extrait de la couverture : "Globalization has intensified the pressures on poor women. They have resisited in both the North and the South in movements that are exclusively female or where women play a significant part. [This book] brings together scholars and organizers to record and analyse women's grassroots activism in two key areas : claims to livehood ans human rights. Opening with an historical account of differing facets of women's action for emancipation, this book goes on to look at more recent examples of diverse resistance : women fighting for environmental and reproductive rights, mobilizing against poverty and racism, fighting the inequalities imposed by structural adjustement programmes, and campaigning for human rights. Through cases ranging from the British miner's strike to making gender central to the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activists challenging the boundaries of prevalling assumptions of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy and

Publisher: Zed Books
Publish Date: 2001

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

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