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Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms Paperback - 2016 - 2nd Edition

by Amrita Basu


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This book provides a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South, where women's movements have engaged in complex negotiations with national and international forces. It challenges widely held assumptions about the Western origins and character of local feminisms. The authors locate women's movements within the terrain from which they emerged by exploring their relationships with the state, civil society, and other social movements.

This fully revised second edition contains six new chapters by leading scholars of women and gender studies, on both individual countries and on several major regions of the world?

Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Maghreb. This balanced coverage enables readers to identify regional patterns and also learn from in-depth case studies. Women's Movements in the Global Era is essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.

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Amrita Basu s Women s Movements in the Global Era follows the success of her first edition with this exciting new collection. She has brought together a fine set of case studies from around the world to bring new insights to this important field of study. This book will be essential reading across a wide range of disciplines." Maxine Molyneux, University College London Institute of the Americas
In this fine collection, Basu and her contributors provide sweeping analyses of diverse feminist and women s movements and organizations in major world regions. Highly recommended. Choice
Bringing together a broad array of richly detailed, analytically exacting, and often provocative case studies, this book offers fresh insights into how changing global and local forces have impacted women s lives and feminist activism . . . This volume exhaustively documents how the global gender policy agenda . . . has been translated and transformed by activists and policy makers on the ground. Sonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This book provides a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women s movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South, where women s movements have engaged in complex negotiations with national and international forces. It challenges widely held assumptions about the Western origins and character of local feminisms. The authors locate women s movements within the terrain from which they emerged by exploring their relationships with the state, civil society, and other social movements.
This fully revised second edition contains six new chapters by leading scholars of women and gender studies, on both individual countries and on several major regions of the world Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Maghreb. This balanced coverage enables readers to identify regional patterns and also learn from in-depth case studies. Women s Movements in the Global Era is essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.
Amrita Basu is the Paino Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest and Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India. She has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and American Institute of Indian Studies."

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  • Title Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms
  • Author Amrita Basu
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2016-12-27
  • ISBN 9780813350127 / 0813350123
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminism - History - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016035715
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

About the author

Amrita Basu is the Paino Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest and Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India. She has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and American Institute of Indian Studies.
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