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Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance? book cover

1st Edition

Women's Movements Flourishing or in abeyance?

Edited By Sandra Grey, Marian Sawer Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: In Abeyance?  2. The State of Women’s Movement/s in Britain  3. Autonomy and Engagement  4. Institutional, Incremental and Enduring  5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The New Zealand Women’s Movement  6. The Politics of Backlash in the United States and Japan  Part 2: New Spaces  7. Gender Specialists and Global Governance: New Forms of Women’s Movement Mobilisation?  8. Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global Women’s Movement?  9. Women in Cities  10. Cyberfeminism in Action  Part 3: New Feminist Activists  11. New Voices.  In Strong Hands: Young Women and the Future of Women’s Movements.  Australia.  Canada.  Japan.  Korea.  New Zealand.  Scotland.  United States

Biography

Sandra Grey is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Marian Sawer is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.

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