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Globalization and Feminist Activism

Second Edition

Mary E. Hawkesworth

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific women’s issues beyond the borders of the nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist strategies to influence international agencies and foundations, national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 290 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼

978-1-5381-1323-3 • Hardback • June 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-5381-1324-0 • Paperback • June 2018 • $44.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-5381-1325-7 • eBook • June 2018 • $41.50 • (£35.00)

Series: Globalization

Subjects: Political Science / Globalization, Political Science / General, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Feminist Geography

Globalization and Feminist Activism

Second Edition

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific women’s issues beyond the borders of the nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist strategies to influence international agencies and foundations, national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 290 • Trim: 6½ x 9¼

978-1-5381-1323-3 • Hardback • June 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-5381-1324-0 • Paperback • June 2018 • $44.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-5381-1325-7 • eBook • June 2018 • $41.50 • (£35.00)

Series: Globalization

Subjects: Political Science / Globalization, Political Science / General, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Feminist Geography

Author

Mary E. Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics and The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Engendering Globalization
2 Feminists Go Global: Reclaiming a History
3 Feminist Transnationalism: Contestations within UN Circuits
4 Neoliberalism and Feminism: Cooptation, Entrapment, or Opposing World Views
5 Global Feminist Futures: The Continuing Struggle for Inclusion and Justice
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

Reviews

Hawkesworth offers a rich review of international feminist activism since the 19th century. . . . Recommended.
— Choice Reviews

This cogent text is a teacher’s ‘best choice’: a comprehensive and comprehensible analysis of globalization and its raced-gendered harms, also featuring alternative visions and transformative practices. This welcome, timely new edition brings us up-to-date regarding empirical data, theoretical debates, gains, setbacks, conflicts, and ever-evolving challenges of pursuing transformative social justice. Hawkesworth’s depiction of globalization demands and enables critical engagement, while her survey of transnational feminist activisms makes alternatives visible and encourages action.
— V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona

The second edition of this volume is essential reading for those involved in all aspects of global governance. It will help them understand that ‘celebrating women as economic agents’ is not just about words but about totally new perspectives and actions.
— Gillian Youngs, Canterbury Christ Church University

Features

Provides insights into the gendered nature of global economic and political systems and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states

Illuminates the disparate effects of globalization on women and men in different regions of the globe

Critically analyzes feminist transformative tactics from grass roots activism to NGOization and gender mainstreaming and assesses the kinds of change they enable

Analyzes power dynamics within global feminism and situates them in relation to the Cold War and the geopolitical dynamics of globalization

Assesses the complex effects of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and women’s peace and security initiatives

Challenges assumptions concerning irreversible progress in women’s rights and examines powerful forces mobilized to derail feminist social justice objectives

New features
Reworks the substantive arguments to incorporate rich insights from recent feminist scholarship and new global trends

Deepens the historical analysis

Includes two new chapters: “Neoliberalism and Feminism” and “Global Feminist Futures”

Globalization and Feminist Activism

Second Edition

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