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Women Resist Globalization: Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights

Women Resist Globalization: Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights

by SheilaRowbotham (Editor), StephanieLinkogle (Editor)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

Globalization has intensified the pressures on poor women. They have resisted in both the North and the South in movements that are exclusively female and in others where women play a significant part. This book brings together scholars and organizers to record and analyze women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. Through cases ranging from the British miners' strike to making gender central to the Guatemalan peace process, the book documents activists challenging the boundaries of prevailing assumptions of work, environment, reproduction, community, democracy and indeed politics. It contributes to the ongoing debate about the scope of women's movements, while demonstrating how women's activism around needs and rights is a crucial element in the global struggle for equality and justice. Essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, development, politics, sociology, geography and labour studies - as well as for activists everywhere.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 1856498778
ISBN 13: 9781856498777

Media Reviews
'The radical vision and historical imagination of Rowbotham and Linkogle give these movements, so often dismissed as sporadic or fragmentary, a rightful place in the history of resistance to hegemonic powers. An important contribution to current discourse on international feminism.' Swasti Mitter 'Mobilizations against the harshest effects of globalization on people's daily lives world wide are predominantly initiated and sustained by the visions and leadership of women. It is inspiring to read this new collection by Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle highlighting the breadth and creativity of women's ongoing battles to create better lives for all. A tonic for these times.' Lynne Segal, author of Why Feminism: Gender, Psychology, Politics
Author Bio
Sheila Rowbotham has published extensively on women's history. She is a research fellow in sociology at the University of Manchester, England. Stephanie Linkogle has written on women's movements in Latin America in her book Gender Practice and Faith in Nicaragua and in journals such as Bulletin of Latin American Research, Race and Class, and Sociological Research On-Line. She is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex.