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The Challenge Of Local Feminisms - Women's Movements In Global Perspective (Paperback)
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The Challenge Of Local Feminisms - Women's Movements In Global Perspective (Paperback)
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This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of
the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements
worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the
industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater attention
to the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The
book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend
national differences and, conversely, that women's movements are
shaped and circumscribed by national levels of development. All the
authors reject the notion, proposed by its detractors and champions
alike, that feminism is of middle-class origins and Western
inspiration. Instead they seek to locate women's movements within
the terrain from which they emerge.Virtually all the authors are
from the countries or communities about which they write; the few
exceptions are women who have spent lengthy periods studying and
living in the region. Most are scholars, often in women's studies,
and many are closely associated with the movements they describe.
Thus, these writers share a commitment to the substantive concerns
as well as the collective processes of women's movements. As a key
book for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, this
volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the
global scope and implications of feminism.
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