Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks

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Author: Valentine M. Moghadam

ISBN-10: 0801880246

ISBN-13: 9780801880247

Category: Economic Conditions

Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of feminism.\ Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of globalization have helped to create...

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Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of globalization have helped to create transnational networks of activists and organizations with common agendas.

1Globalizing women : an introduction and overview12Globalization and its discontent : capitalist development, political movements and gender213Female labor, regional crises, and feminist responses504The women's movement and its organizations : discourses, structures, resources785From structural adjustment to the global trade agenda : DAWN, WIDE, and WEDO1056Feminists versus fundamentalists : women living under Muslim laws and the sisterhood is global institute1427The travails of transnational feminist organizing : the association of women of the Mediterranean region (AWMR)1738The specter that haunts the global economy? : the challenge of global feminism191App. AA women's appeal, women living under Muslim laws, alert for action / Algeria, 1992203App. BWomen's caucus declaration, third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization, Seattle, Washington, 30 November-3 December 1999204App. CSeattle declaration, diverse women for diversity, Seattle, 1 December 1999206

\ American Sociological ReviewFeminist readers will appreciate Moghadam's deep commitment to understanding global feminism from the inside out.\ — Abigail E. Cameron\ \ \