Building feminist movements and organizations : global perspectives /: global perspectives. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lydia Alpízar Duŕan, Noël D. Payne and Anahi Russo.
• Other Names: Alpízar Durán, Lydia; Payne, Noël D; Russo, Anahi
• Contents: Introduction - Building feminist movements and organizations: learning from experience / Lydia Alpízar Durán Part I: Challenging power and revisioning leadership1.Re-politicization of the women's movement and feminism in Argentina: the experience of Pan y Rosas / Andrea D'Atri 2.A Jewish Orthodox women's revolution - the case of Kolech / Margalit Shilo 3.An insight into feminist organizations / Yamini Mishra and Nalini Singh 4.Empowering womanspace: power distribution and dynamics in Christian feminist community / Kelsey Rice and Ann Crews Melton Part II: Revisiting common organizational practices5.New democratic exercises in Mexican feminist organizations / Adriana Medina Espino 6.Linking empowerment and democracy: a challenge to women's groups in Quebec / Nancy Guberman, Jennifer Beeman, Jocelyne Lamoreux, Danielle Fournier and Lise Gervais 7.Gender mainstreaming in development organizations: organizational discourse and the perils of institutional change / Nicholas Piálek 8.Feminists, factions and fictions in rural Canada / Leona M. English Part III: Building organizational capacity and resources9.A model for social change: 15 years investing in Mexican women / Emilienne de León, Amanda Mercedes Gigler, Lucero González and Margaret Schellenberg 10.Reflections on strengthening leadership in community based organizations in India / Pramada Menon 11.Virtual Seminar on Gender and Trade - an innovative process / Verónica Baracat, Phyllida Cox and Norma Sanchis Part IV: Broadening the base of movements12.Zimbabwe Women Writers: from inception to 2004 / Mary O. Tandon 13.Amnesty for Women: building mechanisms to integrate and empower migrant women in Hamburg, Germany / Sol Viviana Rojas and Raquel Aviles Caminero 14.The Korean Women's Trade Union: a foothold for women's workers rights / Jinock Lee 15.Power in bridges: a Romanian story about spreading feminist values / Camelia Blaga 16.Widening the base of the feminist movement in Pakistan / Shahnaz Iqbal Part V: Advancing movements' work in situations of conflict17.The Women's Emancipatory Constituent process for peace in Colombia / Yusmidia Solano 18.From individual struggle to national struggle: Palestinian women in the State of Israel / Trees Zbidat-Kosterman 19.Equal representation in a divided society: the feminist experience in Israel / Dalia Sachs and Hannah Safran 20.The valued identity of 'motherhood' as strategically used by Indonesia's Suara Ibu Peduli / Monika S.W. Doxey Part VI: Campaigns as a means to build movements21.The remobilization of the Algerian women's movement through the 20 Ans Barakat campaign / Caroline Brac de la Perrière 22.Advocating sexual rights: the campaign for the reform of the Turkish penal code / Liz Ecervik Amado 23.An Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights: we're campaigning! / Elizabeth C. Plácido 24.A matter of life or death: campaigning to build support for the defence of women's rights in Nigeria / Titi Salaam 25.The evolution of discourse: the campaign to change the family law in Morocco / Alexandra Pittman (+ endnote: 'in association with...') Editors and contributors
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42; Feminism; Women's rights; Women -- Societies and clubs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848136199; 1848136196
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