Peggy Antrobus

The Global Women's Movement (eBook, PDF)

Origins, Issues and Strategies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848131439
• Artikelnr.: 38356173

Autorenporträt

Peggy Antrobus has been employed in government and NGO programmes in St.Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados. She set up the Women and Development Unit within the School of Continuing Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was its head until her retirement in 1995. She was a founding member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and DAWN, the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The Global Women's Movement: Definitions and Local Origins
2. Global Contexts for an Emerging Movement: The UN Development Decades,
1960s - 1970s
3. A Decade for Women: UN Conferences (1975-1985)
4. The Lost Decade - the 1980s
5. It's About Justice: Feminist Leadership Making a Difference on the World
Stage
6. Political Strategies and Dynamics of Women's Organising and Feminist
Activism
7. The New Context, Challenges and Dilemmas for the Future
8. Leadership for Moving Forward
Epilogue: Is Another World Possible?
Selected Readings
Index