Global Feminist Politics - Identities in a Changing World

Featuring an international panel of cutting-edge feminist thinkers, Global Feminist Politics examines the changing context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Trying to Connect You: Global Feminist Politics Suki Ali 2. The Women's Movement Revisited: Areas of Concern for the Future Nighat Said Kahn 3. Despite Diversity: Women's Unity in Western Cape, South Africa Gertrude Fester 4. Political Thoughts and Domestic Lives: Women Activists in North India Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert 5. Gender, Ethinicity and `the community': locations with multiple identities Tijen Uguris 6. Is There a Space for Gender in Modernist Planning? Tovi Fenster 7. Gender and Catastrophe: (En)Gendering Genocides Tovi Fenster 7. Gendered Diaspora Identities: South African Women, Exile and Migration Elaine Unterhalter 8. No Fixed Abode: Feminism in the 1990s ^Debbie Epstein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg 9. Who Knows Best? Politics and Ethics in Feminist Theory and Research Suki Ali 10. Fast Capitalism, Fast Feminism and Some Fast Food for Thought Jane Kenway with Diana Langmead 11. Conclusion: Reflections on a Global Women's Movement Kelly Coate

About the author

Suki Ali is currently completing an ESRC funded PhD at the Institute for Education, University of London. Her work has been published in Gender and Education and Irish Journal of Feminist Studies. Kelly Coate is a Research Officer also at the Institute of Education, and has taught and published in the fields of women's studies and education.

Summary

Featuring an international panel of cutting-edge feminist thinkers, Global Feminist Politics examines the changing context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Suki Ali (Editor), Ali Suki (Editor), Kelly Coate (Editor), Coate Kelly (Editor), Wangui Wa Goro (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2000
• EAN: 9780415214698
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21469-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Weight: 530 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Political activism, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Political activism / Political engagement