Women Reinventing Globalisation

by Kerr, Joanna; Sweetman, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780855984922
• ISBN10: 0855984929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Oxfam Pubns

Summary

The Association for Women's Rights in Development's International Forum is the largest international summit on gender equality outside of the United Nations system. The AWID Forum provides an unparalleled opportunity to develop strategies, share ideas, build skills and provide support -- all to advance gender equality and social justice. At the 2002 Forum in Guadelajara, Mexico, hundreds of leaders, scholars, and practitioners considered the economic, political, social, ecological and cultural implications of globalization. They set out to strategize for viable alternatives to the current unsustainable, undemocratic and exploitative forms of globalization. Contributors to this volume analyze current approaches to economic and political change and propose ways of ensuring that their ideas are translated into concrete actions in the years to come. The aim is to re-politicize the gender and development community and examine work that transforms rather than reacts. This volume provides a platform for a solutions-oriented approach to profound global changes and their effects on the lives of women. It looks at globalization through women's eyes, engages in thought-provoking debates and finds energizing ideas. "Women Reinventing Globalisation" focuses on one of the most urgent issues facing gender equality work: "How can we reinvent globalization to further the rights of all women?"

Table of Contents

Editorial	3	(12)
Joanna Kerr
Caroline Sweetman
I The economics of globalisation
Gender budgets and beyond: feminist fiscal policy in the context of globalisation	15	(10)
Nilufer Cagatay
Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice	25	(10)
Ruth Pearson
Counting for something! Recognising women's contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems	35	(9)
Marilyn Waring
African Women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme	44	(8)
Zo Randriamaro
In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from, Latin America	52	(7)
If I were Minister of Finance...: gaining understanding of financial crisis through a simulation workshop	59	(10)
Mehrene Larudee
Caren Grown
II Globalisation as politics
Fundamentalisms, globalisation, and women's human rights in Senegal	69	(8)
Fatou Sow
A daring proposal: campaigning for an inter-American convention on sexual rights and reproductive rights	77	(5)
Valeria Pandjiarjian
Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother	82	(9)
Mona Danner
Gay Young
Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women	91	(6)
Sanya Sarnavka
III Specific issues of global concern
Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals	97	(12)
Lynn Freedman
HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women's movement	109	(5)
Sisonke Msimang
New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective	114	(11)
Lisa Handwerker
Trafficking and women's human rights in a globalised world	125	(10)
Pamela Shifman
IV Building a global voice to protect women's rights
The women's movement in the era of globalisation: does it face extinction?	135	(7)
Andrea Medina Rosas
Shamillah Wilson
Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation	142	(8)
Aruna Rao
David Kelleher
Resources	150	(1)
Ruth Evans
Publications	150	(2)
Electronic resources	152	(2)
Briefing kits	154	(1)
Journals	154	(1)
Organisations	155	(1)
Videos	156	(1)
Conferences	157