The Future of Women's Rights Global Visions and Strategies

by Kerr, Joanna; Sprenger, Ellen; Symington, Alison

• ISBN13: 9781842774595
• ISBN10: 184277459X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

The Future of Women's Rightsidentifies the emergence of various trends threatening the advance of gender equality, women's human rights and sustainable human development. These phenomena include the impacts of globalization and neoliberal economics, developments in biotechnology, the neo-conservative backlash against women's rights, monopolistic ownership patterns over information technologies, the rise of identity politics marginalizing women's issues, and the increase in violent conflict and war. The contributors to this volume are united in seeing a pressing need for women's movements to evaluate their methods, with a view to making their future political work more effective. They identify current issues and trends in the world, thinking through how these may impact women and the work of women's movements.

Author Biography

Joanna Kerr is Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).

Ellen Sprenger is Executive Director of Mama Cash, a women's fund based in The Netherlands.

Alison Symington is Senior Researcher at AWID.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
1 Introduction: the future of women's rights	1	(13)
ALISON SYMINGTON AND ELLEN SPRENGER
2 From 'opposing' to 'proposing': finding proactive global strategies for feminist futures	14	(24)
JOANNA KERR
3 Creating a new world with new visions: African feminism and trends in the global women's movement	38	(18)
BISI ADELEYE-FAYEMI
4 Rights of passage: women shaping the twenty-first century	56	(13)
MAHNAZ AFKHAMI
5 Challenging power: alternatives to the current global order	69	(28)
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSEFA (GIGI) FRANCISCO
6 An action framework for South Asia So
DEEPA DHANRAJ, GEETANJALI MISRA AND SRILATHA BATLIWALA
7 Different worlds possible: feminist yearnings for shared futures	97	(19)
SARAH BRACKE
8 Diversity as our strength: transforming power, public policy and popular culture	116	(19)
ANA CRIQUILLION
9 Confronting globalization: feminist political spirituality as a strategy of action	135	(17)
ALDA FACIO
10 Globalization and reinventing the politics of a women's movement	152	(18)
VANESSA GRIFFEN
11 Caution! women moving: strategies for organizing' feminist visions of the future	170	(16)
SISONKE MSIMANG
12 International and post-socialist women's rights advocacy: points of convergence and tension	186	(11)
REFLECTIONS FROM ANASTASIA POSADSKAYA-VANDERBECK
13 Gender equality advocates speak: feminist issues and strategies in the future	197	(16)
RHONDA LEESON
Editors and contributors	213	(5)
Index	218