activism, politics, women in politics, International cooperation 

This volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insights from leading feminists in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. The engaged and sophisticated personal accounts, political speeches and academic articles collected here reveal a vibrant and multifaceted transnational feminist movement struggling not just for women¹s equality in existing structures but to redefine wealth, work, peace, democracy, leadership, family, human rights, development, community and citizenship. Contributors include: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Vandana Shiva, Charlotte Bunch, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Nighat Said Khan, Sally Roesch Wagner and Alda Facio among many others. 

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Preface
Peggy Antrobus

Introduction
Angela Miles

I. Neo-Liberal Context

Women: The Custodians
Vandana Shiva

Love and Gold
Arlie Russell Hochschild

II. Feminist Organizing: National, Regional and Global Frames

Global Politics and Transnational Feminisms
Jan Jindy Pettman

Feminist Networks, People’s Movements and Alliances: Learning from the Ground
Devaki Jain

Feminism, Peace, Human Rights and Human Security
Charlotte Bunch

Up Against the State: The Women’s Movement in Pakistan and its Implications for the Global Women’s Movement
Nighat Said Khan

Creating and Sustaining Feminist Space in Africa: Local and Global Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist NGO ‘Boom’
Sonia E. Alvarez

Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Singapore: The Limits of Transnationalism
Lenore Lyons

III. Women’s Local Struggles and Feminist Politics

The Curse of Nakedness: Nigerian Women in the Oil War
Terisa E. Turner and Leigh S. Brownhill

‘We Are That Mythical Thing Called the Public’: Militant Housewives in the US During the Depression
Annelise Orleck

Solidarity, Patriarchy and Empowerment: Women’s Struggles Against Arrack in India
Rekha Pande

Coming to Terms With the Past in Bangladesh: Naming Women’s Truths
Bina D’Costa

Missionary Women and Feminism in Norway, 1906-1910
Line Nyhagen Predelli

IV. Feminist Challenges in Practice and Vision

The Indigenous Roots of United States Feminism
Sally Roesch Wagner

Women’s Human Rights Activists as Political Theorists
Brooke A. Ackerly

Alternative Leadership in Africa: Some Critical Feminist Reflections
Sylvia Tamale

Testing the Limits of European Citizenship: Ethnic Hatred and Male Violence
R. Amy Elman

Feminist Intervention in the Rise of ‘Asian’ Discourse
Cho Haejoang

Back to Womanhood: Feminism in Globalized Israel
Erella Shadmi

V. Conclusion

The Empire Strikes Back But Finds Feminism Invincible
Alda Facio

Index