Building Feminist Movements and Organizations Global Perspectives

by Alpizar, Lydia; Durán, Anahi; Garrido, Anahi Russo

• ISBN13: 9781842778494
• ISBN10: 1842778498
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

Building Feminist Movementsis an international collection of essays and case studies which explores diverse ways in which women and feminist organizations and movements are organizing and it also analyses the important lessons learned in the process. Women's organizations and movements must be stronger than ever to be able to hold the line and continue moving forward the women's rights agenda. In the present context, where many threats to women's rights such as armed conflicts, the advance of HIV/AIDS, raising fundamentalisms and scarce resources for work on women's rights, a revision of the internal dynamics and work done in women and feminist organizations and movements is de rigueur in order to face these challenges effectively.

Author Biography

Lydia Alpizar, Anahi Durán and Anahi Russo Garrido are all activists and heavily involved with AWID, the Association of Women in Development.

Table of Contents

Introduction

visiting Organizational Practices

Broadening the Movement: Mechanisms of Inclusion

Increasing Organizational Capacity and Resources

Alliance Building and Partnerships

Sustaining the Work in Conflict Situation

Campaigning for Building Movements

Dynamics and Leadership

Introduction

Revisiting organizational practices

How different is different

An insight into feminist organizations

Building stronger movements: linking organizational health to mass empowerment

Broadening the movement: Mechanisms of inclusion

Group of and for Latinas in Hamburg Germany

The Korean Women's Trade Union: a foothold for female workers' rights

On starting big when you are small: a Romanian story about building feminist values

A religious women's revolution: the case of Kolech in Israel

A case study: The Zimbabwe women writers association

ncreasing organizational capacity and resources

Mexican women's social change model: Semillas 15 Years investing in women

Enredadadas: the capacity-building experience of the virtual seminal

Widening the base of the feminist movement in Pakistan

Alliance building and Partnerships

Promoting women's leadership and human development in Siberia

Repolitization of the women's movement and feminism in Argentina: Your struggle is our struggle! Experience of the group Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses)

We are campaigning: Building alliances and Partnerships for sexual and reproductive rights

Equal representation in a divided society: feminist experience in Israel

Sustaining the work in conflict situation

Women's peace initiative: building alliances, agenda and collective actors in political action for peace in Colombia

From individual struggle to national struggle: An Arab Women's Organization in Israel

Campaigning for building movements

Remobilizing the women's movement in Algeria around the Barakat (Twenty Years Is Enough) Campaign

The campaign for the reform of the Turkish penal code from a gender perspective

Indonesian feminist movement: the valued role of 'motherhood' as strategically used by 'the Voice of Concerned Mothers' (Suara Ibu Peduli SIP) to re-politicize the Indonesian women's movement

Strategies, struggles, and methods of WARDC advocacy for women's human rights in Nigeria

The evolution of discourse: the women's campaign to change the Moudawana in Morocco

dynamics and leadership

Empowering women's space: power distribution and dynamics in Christian feminist communities

Feminists, factions, and fictions: using power to view power and build rural feminism

Empowerment and democracy, w

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