Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts - Feminist Perspectives and Activist Practices

Grounded in empirical studies of activist practices, this international and interdisciplinary collection employs feminist analytics to interrogate the possibility of emancipatory cross-border solidarities in contemporary contexts.

List of contents

Introduction, Janet Conway, Dominique Masson, Khalil Habrih, and Pascale Dufour
Part I: Transnationalization
1. Studying "Global Feminism" as a Transnational Assemblage: Geopolitics of Women's Rights in the (Post)Cold War (1975-1995), Ioana Cîrstocea
2. European Solidarities across the East/West Divide: Power and Difference in Lesbian and Gay Transnational Cooperation with Poland in the mid-2000s, Agnès Chetaille
Part II: Solidarity-Building
3. Solidarity-Building as Praxis: Anti-Extractivism and the World March of Women in the Macro-Norte Region of Peru, Dominique Masson and Anabel Paulos
4. Allowing Rural Difference to Make a Difference: The Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas, Renata Motta and Marco Antonio Teixeira5. The Cosmopolitical Challenge of Building Border-crossing Feminist Solidarities, Johanna Leinius
Part III: Translation
6. Power, Translation, and Localized Transnational Feminism, Geneviève Pagé
7. (Mis)translations in Translocal Solidarity-Building and the Need for Controlled Equivocation: Cuerpo-territorio in the World March of Women, Nathalie Lebon
Afterword, Manisha Desai
References

About the author

Janet Conway is Professor of Sociology and former Canada Research Chair in Social Justice at Brock University. She currently holds the Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Pascale Dufour is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal.
Dominique Masson is Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

Summary

Grounded in empirical studies of activist practices, this international and interdisciplinary collection employs feminist analytics to interrogate the possibility of emancipatory cross-border solidarities in contemporary contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Janet M. Dufour Conway
• Assisted by: Janet M Conway (Editor), Janet M. Conway (Editor), Conway Janet M. (Editor), Pascale Dufour (Editor), Dominique Masson (Editor), Masson Dominique (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781538157701
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5770-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Activism, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls