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The Global Women's Movement
Origins, Issues and Strategies
The Global Women's Movement
Origins, Issues and Strategies
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Description
The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Global Women's Movement: Definitions and Local Origins
2. Global Contexts for an Emerging Movement: The UN Development Decades, 1960s - 1970s
3. A Decade for Women: UN Conferences (1975-1985)
4. The Lost Decade - the 1980s
5. It's About Justice: Feminist Leadership Making a Difference on the World Stage
6. Political Strategies and Dynamics of Women's Organising and Feminist Activism
7. The New Context, Challenges and Dilemmas for the Future
8. Leadership for Moving Forward
Epilogue: Is Another World Possible?
Selected Readings
Index
Product details
Published | 29 Feb 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 225 |
ISBN | 9781848131439 |
Imprint | Zed Books |
Series | Global Issues |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This is a breath-taking attempt at documenting the challenges and triumphs of the Global Women's Movement over the past 30 years, and there are few women in this movement more qualified than Peggy Antrobus to take this on.
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Women's Rights in Development
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A fascinating book where the researcher and the activist come together to tell the history of a revolutionary movement that changed the way we think about gender and sexuality, social justice and human rights, the political economy and power.
Carmen Barroso, Western Hemisphere Region
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This is a must read for all activists, policy makers and scholars who care about the future of equity and justice in the world.
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
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A reflection on the international women's movement by one of its most important leaders is both timely and stimulating.
Noeleen Heyzer, UNIFEM

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