Research Catalog

Title

Women resist globalization : mobilizing for livelihood and rights / edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle.

Publication

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Linkogle, Stephanie
• Rowbotham, Sheila

Description

x, 206 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Scholars and organizers record and analyse women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. [back cover].

Subject

• Feminism
• Globalization
• Women political activists
• Women social reformers
• Women's Rights
• Women's rights

Genre/Form

Case studies (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Facets of emancipation: women in movement from the eighteenth century to the present / Sheila Rowbotham -- Uncommon women and the common good: women and environmental protest / Temma Kaplan -- Women, "community" and the british miners' strike of 1984-1985 / Meg Allen -- Between a rock and a hard place: women's self-mobilization to overcome poverty in Uganda / Sylvia Tamale -- Adithi: creating economic and social alternatives / Viji Srinivasan -- New roots for rights: women's responses to population and development policies / Navtej K. Purewal -- Nicaraguan women in the age of globalization / Stephanie Linkogle -- Sexual politics in Indonesia: from Soekarno's old order to Soeharto's new order / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Creating alternative spaces: black women in resistance / Pragna Patel, Paminder Parbha -- Individual and community rights advocacy forum: campaigning for women's rights in Papua New Guinea / Orovu Sepoe -- Implementation of the gender demands included in the Guatemala peace accords: Lessons Learned / Clara Jimeno.

ISBN

• 185649876X (cased)
• 1856498778 (limp)

LCCN

^^2001045299

OCLC

47282844

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library