Globalization and Feminist Activism

(Hardback, Second Edition)

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This thoroughly updated edition provides 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 womens 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.

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This cogent text is a teachers 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. Hawkesworths 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

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