TY - BOOK AU - Basu,Amrita AU - McGrory,C.Elizabeth ED - Ford Foundation. TI - The challenge of local feminisms: women's movements in global perspective T2 - Social change in global perspective SN - 0813326273 (alk. paper) U1 - 305.42 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Boulder PB - Westview Press KW - Feminism KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Developing countries N1 - Studies initiated by the Women's Program Forum of the Ford Foundation in preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women, scheduled for Beijing in 1995; Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-464) and index; pt. 1. Asia -- ch. 1. Discovering the positive with the negative: the women's movement in a changing China / Naihua Zhang with Wu Xu -- ch. 2. From Chipko to Sati: the contemporary Indian women's movement / Radha Kumar -- ch. 3. Men in seclusion, women in public: Rokeya's dream and women's struggles in Bangladesh / Roushan Jahan -- ch. 4. Rebirthing Babaye: the women's movement in the Philippines / Lilia Quindoza Santiago -- pt. 2. Africa and the Middle East -- ch. 5. The dawn of a new day: redefining South African feminism / Amanda Kemp, Nozizwe Madlala, Asha Moodley, and Elaine Salo -- ch. 6. The many faces of feminism in Namibia / Dianne Hubbard and Colette Solomon -- ch. 7. The mother of warriors and her daughters: the women's movement in Kenya / Wilhelmina Oduol and Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira -- ch. 8. Wifeism and activism: the Nigerian women's movement / Hussaina Abdullah -- ch. 9. Claiming feminism, claiming nationalism: women's activism in the occupied territories / Islah Jad -- pt. 3. Latin America -- ch. 10. Out of the kitchens and onto the streets: women's activism in Peru / Cecilia Blondet -- ch. 11. Democracy in the country and in the home: the women's movement in Chile / Alicia Frohmann and Teresa Valdés -- ch. 12. Brazilian feminism and women's movements: a two-way street / Vera Soares, Ana Alice Alcantara Costa, Cristina Maria Buarque, Denise Dourado Dora, and Wania Sant'Anna -- ch. 13. Building bridges: the growth of popular feminism in Mexico / Marta Lamas, Alicia Martínez, María Luisa Tarrés, and Esperanza Tuñon (translated by Ellen Calmus) -- pt. 4. Russia, Europe, and the United States -- ch. 14. Democracy without women is no democracy: women's struggles in postcommunist Russia / Elizabeth Waters and Anastasia Posadskaya -- ch. 15. Finding a voice: women in postcommunist Central Europe / Elzbieta Matynia -- ch. 16. Extending the boundaries of citizenship: women's movements of Western Europe / Jane Jenson -- ch. 17. Feminism lives: building a multicultural women's movement in the United States / Leslie R. Wolfe and Jennifer Tucker UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/95007664-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/95007664-d.html ER -