Transformations: Feminist Pathways to Global Change

by Torry D. Dickinson, Robert K. Schaeffer

Overview

Bringing feminist and world-systems theories together, this analytic anthology examines the rise of intersecting, women-centered movements that contribute to alternative development and the rise of new societies. The authors consider feminist movements and humanistic transformations that create new work and market relations, promote democracy and equality, redefine gender and sexuality, regenerate the environment, and construct nonviolent and peaceful relations. At the end of each chapter, articles by feminist theorists and practitioners on these topics are included to illustrate the analysis. Using a global, historical framework, the book shows how diverse, multicultural, and international feminist ideas can be brought together to provide a comprehensive and differentiated understanding of change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594513565
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2008
Series:	Transnational Feminist Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Torry Dickinson, Robert Schaeffer

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Women-Centered Movements and Alternative Development; Chapter 1a Violent Endings and New Beginnings, Gargi Bhattacharyya; Chapter 2 Redefining Work, Gender, and Development; Chapter 2a Antiglobalization Pedagogies, Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Chapter 3 Feminist Pathways to Democracy and Equality; Chapter 3a From Research to Action, Siriporn Skrobanek, Boonpakdee Nataya, Chutima Jantateero; Chapter 3b First Letter: On the Spirit of this Book, Paulo Freire; Chapter 4 Humanizing Social Relations; Chapter 4a Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception, Maria Lugones; Chapter 5 Restructuring Gender to Promote Alternative Development; Chapter 5a Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness? Women’s Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes; Chapter 5b A New Politics of Sexuality, June Jordan; Chapter 5c Pedagogies of Crossing, M. Jacqui Alexander; Chapter 6 Feminists Reconstitute Work and Market; Chapter 6a Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women, Sharon Ann Navarro; Chapter 6b The Significance of the House as Property, Namita Datta; Chapter 7 Women and the Environment: Regenerative Development; Chapter 7a How the Corn-Mother Became a Teacher of Wisdom: A Story in Counterpoint—Two Mind-Sets, Two Languages, Marilou Awiakta; Chapter 7b Seeds in Women’s Hands: A Symbol of Food Security and Solidarity, Farida Akhter; Chapter 7c Feminism in the Mau Mau Resurgence, Leigh S. Brownhill, Terisa E. Turner; Chapter 8 Feminist Movements for Nonviolence and Peace; Chapter 8a Representing “Comfort Women”: Activism through Law and Art, Margaret D. Stetz; Chapter 8b Human Rights and Human Wrongs, Kathleen Staudt, Irasema Coronado; Chapter 8c Crossing the Lines: Women’s Organizations in Conflict Resolutions, Shelley Anderson; Chapter 8d Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing, Andrea Smith; Chapter 9 Pathfinders: Women-Centered Movements Discover Intersecting Routes to Global Change;

Editorial Reviews

"This ambitious and illuminating volume draws on feminism and world-systems theory to offer an integrated account of how a wide variety of women-centered movements make distinct yet complementary contributions to an over-arching though still emerging vision of alternative development and global transformation."

—Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder

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