Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil

by Thayer; Millie

• ISBN13: 9780415962131
• ISBN10: 0415962137
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Author Biography

Millie Thayer (2004 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts where she teaches classes' in field research methods, social movements, gender and globalization, and Latin American societies. Her research work is in cross- border feminist relationships, Latin American women's movements, and the social movement/international funding agency nexus. Her articles have appeared in the journals Ethnography and Social Problems and in books published by University of California Press and Cornell University Press.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. ix
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-Reading Globalization from Northeast Brazil	p. 1
Uneasy Allies: The Making of a Transnational Feminist Counterpublic	p. 35
Translating Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship	p. 53
Negotiating Class and Gender: Devalued Women in a Local Counterpublic	p. 83
The Leverage of the Local: "Authentic" Rural Women in Global Counterpublics	p. 110
Feminists and Funding: Plays of Power in the Social Movement Market	p. 128
Movement or Market? Defending the Endangered Counterpublic	p. 164
Methodological Appendix: Transnational Feminism as Field	p. 170
Notes	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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