Globalization and feminist activism

Author(s)

• Hawkesworth, M. E.

Bibliographic Information

Globalization and feminist activism

Mary E. Hawkesworth

（Globalization / series editor, Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver）

Rowman & Littlefield, c2018

2nd ed

• : pbk

Other Title

Globalization & feminist activism

Note

First ed. 2006

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-264) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific women's issues beyond the borders of the nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist strategies to influence international agencies and foundations, national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Engendering Globalization 2 Feminists Go Global: Reclaiming a History 3 Feminist Transnationalism: Contestations within UN Circuits 4 Neoliberalism and Feminism: Cooptation, Entrapment, or Opposing World Views 5 Global Feminist Futures: The Continuing Struggle for Inclusion and Justice Notes References Index About the Author

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Details

• NCID: BC13741124
• ISBN:
  • 9781538113240
• LCCN: 2018004486
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 279 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1155
  • DC23 : 305.42
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Feminism
  • LCSH : Globalization
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA64233137