Women's Movements

Flourishing or in abeyance?
Herausgeber: Grey, Sandra; Sawer, Marian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comparative book brings together scholars to examine the changing patterns of feminist activism and the new local, global and cyber spaces in which it is to be found. It addresses the question 'where have women's movements gone?'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415664134
• ISBN-10: 0415664136
• Artikelnr.: 40213440

Autorenporträt

Sandra Grey is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Marian Sawer is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: In Abeyance? 2. The State of Women's Movement/s in
Britain 3. Autonomy and Engagement 4. Institutional, Incremental and
Enduring 5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The New Zealand Women's Movement 6.
The Politics of Backlash in the United States and Japan Part 2: New Spaces
7. Gender Specialists and Global Governance: New Forms of Women's Movement
Mobilisation? 8. Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global
Women's Movement? 9. Women in Cities 10. Cyberfeminism in Action Part 3:
New Feminist Activists 11. New Voices. In Strong Hands: Young Women and the
Future of Women's Movements. Australia. Canada. Japan. Korea. New Zealand.
Scotland. United States