Globalization And Feminist Activism

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This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific women's issues beyond the borders of the nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist strategies to influence international agencies and foundations, national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Chapter 1. EngenderingGlobalization......Page 12 Chapter 2. Feminists Go Global: Reclaiming a History......Page 48 Chapter 3. Feminist Transnationalism: Contestations within UN Circuits......Page 92 Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and Feminism: Co-optation, Entrapment, or Opposing World Views......Page 138 Chapter 5. Global Feminist Futures: The Continuing Struggle for Inclusion and Justice......Page 194 Notes......Page 232 References......Page 246 Index......Page 276 About the Author......Page 290