Title: Globalizing women : transnational feminist networks /
Authors: Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Feminists Social networks.; Feminism International cooperation; Women Developing countries Economic conditions.; Women Developing countries Social conditions.; Transnationalism.; Globalization; International business enterprises; Sexual division of labor
Contents: Globalizing women : an introduction and overview -- Globalization and its discontents : capitalist development, political movements, and gender -- Female labor, regional crises, and feminist responses -- The women's movement and its organizations : discourses, structures, resources -- From structural adjustment to the global trade agenda : DAWN, WIDE, and WEDO -- Feminists versus fundamentalists : Women Living under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood is Global Institute -- The travails of transnational feminist organizing : the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (AWMR) -- The spectre that haunts the global economy? : the challenge of global feminism.