Women's movements
Subtitle: flourishing or in abeyance?
By: edited by Sandra Grey and Marian Sawer.
Contributors: Grey, Sandra.; Sawer, Marian.
Series: Routledge research in comparative politics -- 22
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415462457; 9780203927397
Subjects: Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marian Sawer and Sandra Grey; title: The state of women's movement's in Britain : ambiguity, complexity and challenges from the periphery / Fiona Mackay; title: Autonomy and engagement : women's movements in Australia and South Korea / Sarah Maddison and Kyungja Jung; title: Institutional, incremental and enduring : women's health action in Canada and Australia / Gwen Gray; title: Out of sight, out of mind : the New Zealand women's movement / Sandra Grey; title: The politics of backlash in the United States and Japan / Joyce Gelb; title: Gender specialists and global governance : new forms of women's movement mobilisation? / Jacqui True; title: Campaigns for candidate gender quotas : a new global women's movement? / Mona Lena Krook; title: Women in cities : new spaces for the women's movement? / Caroline Andrew; title: Cyberfeminism in action : claiming women's space in cyberspace / CJ Rowe; title: In strong hands : young women and the future of women's movements / Sarah Maddison.