Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms

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This book provides a path-breaking study of the genesis growth gains and dilemmas of womens movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South where womens 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 womens 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. Womens Movements in the Global Era is essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.