Building Feminist Movements and Organizations: Global Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842778498 ISBN 13: 9781842778494

Publisher: Zed Books, 2007

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Lydia Alpizar, Anahi Durán and Anahi Russo Garrido are all activists and heavily involved with AWID, the Association of Women in Development.

Review:

'Finally a book that lets us get inside the kitchens of women's organizations and feminist movements. This unique collection of diverse voices highlights the pains, victories and lessons of movement building: a must-read for anyone searching for the answers on how social change really happens.' Joanna Kerr, former Executive Director of AWID, Canada 'In a world with increasing challenges to advance women's rights and gender equality, this collection of essays and case studies shed light on some of the ways women and feminist organizations from different regions are organizing and building collective power. Much needed!!!' Geetanjali Misra, Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA), India 'A book that enables us to travel around the globe and learn about events and efforts that will probably, and unfortunately, never be explored by the mainstream historians. What is described in the book should be extremely important to all people, especially women, who know that we live in an unjust and cruel world that needs urgently to be remodeled and transformed according to very different values and norms.' Sanja Sarnavka, B.a.B.e, Croatia 'Each article give us clues to understand the complex realities in which women's organizations and initiatives are working on: conflict areas, weak democracies, fundamentalist contexts, and internal and external tensions, as well as the innovative ways in which they face them. Together, they show us the richness of the diversity of experiences, new strategies, new organizational forms, new leadership forms, the intersectionality of struggles, and particularly, the multiple ways in which women are building social and organizational practices responding to the challenges they face.' Virginia Vargas, Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan, Peru 'The book is an excellent resource for feminist scholars, students, and activists. All the contributions are relatively short and accessible.' Nadje Al-Ali, Director in Gender Studies, SOAS, Gender and Development

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1842778498
• ISBN 13: 9781842778494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Durán Lydia Alpízar, Payne Noël D., Russo Anahi