Globalization and Feminist Activism

This fully updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a just global order. Hawkesworth analyzes continuities and changes in the nature and scope of gendered inequities and power dynamics within national and international regimes and weighs strategies for social transformation.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1 Engendering Globalization
2 Feminists Go Global: Reclaiming a History
3 Feminist Transnationalism: Contestations within UN Circuits
4 Neoliberalism and Feminism: Cooptation, Entrapment, or Opposing World Views
5 Global Feminist Futures: The Continuing Struggle for Inclusion and Justice
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Mary E. Hawkesworth

Summary

This fully updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a just global order. Hawkesworth analyzes continuities and changes in the nature and scope of gendered inequities and power dynamics within national and international regimes and weighs strategies for social transformation.

Product details

• Authors: M. E. Hawkesworth, Mary E. Hawkesworth
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781538113233
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1323-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Globalization; Globalization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Political activism, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Political activism / Political engagement