The challenge of local feminisms : women's movements in global perspective / edited by Amrita Basu, with the assistance of C. Elizabeth McGrory.

By:

Basu, Amrita, 1953- [author]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Social change in global perspective (Boulder, Colo.)Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995Description: xiv, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0813326273 (alk. paper)
0813326281 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

305.42 20 B.A.C

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Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library A3	305.42 B.A.C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00004998

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.

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