Saskia Wieringa

Horacio Sívori

Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Sexual History of the Global South

Lubang Buaya

Rosi Braidotti

Ewa Charkiewicz

Sabine Hausler

International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.

Towards a Theoretical Synthesis

Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development

The Crocodile Hole

Contains: Reflections on the anti-rape campaign in Bombay / Chhaya Datar ; Organization and disorganization : a case of women coir workers in Sri Lanka / Carla Risseeuw ; Women in revolt : a historical analysis of the progressive organization of women in Andhra Pradesh / Lalita K. ; Aborted feminism in Indonesia : a history of Indonesian socialist feminism / Saskia Wieringa ; The recent Chilean Women's Movement / Marta Fuentes ; Feminism in the Netherlands : the 1970s / Petra de Vries ; Emancipation or liberation? : theorizing on feminism and the left in Italy / Carla Pasquinelli ; The feminist movement in Peru : inventory and perspectives / Virginia Vargas.

Women's Struggles and Strategies

Thanh-Dam Truong

Amrita Chhachhi

Feminist Perspectives

Engendering Human Security

Geertje A. Nijeholt

The triangle of empowerment is how this volume's editors describe the three sets of actors involved in women's collective struggles in the political arena: the women's movement, feminist politicians, and feminist civil servants. Original case studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean analyze the political struggles women are waging to make their voices heard and to place women's issues on the agenda in different societies.

The Triangle of Empowerment

Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean

History of the women's movement in Bombay; Women coir workers in Sri Lanka; Women's movement in Chili and the Netherlands

Women's Movements and Organizations in Historical Perspective

"In this book the history of the LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now again to hiding. The author explores the persistence of the butch/femme model of relationships; the proliferations of identities, family violence and conversion therapy, and religion. The anti-LGBT campaign is also extensively analysed. In its insistence on the local dynamics of this movement, the book aims to debunk the idea that homosexuality is a Western import. It is also a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization studies in pointing out that its dynamics, its historical course and its present condition, different as they are from the dominant Western view on a global LGBT movement, needs to be taken as valuable as accounts of Western LGBT histories are"--

A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-normative sexualities, women's sexual agency, the policing of the boundaries between the public and the private realm, sexual citizenship, the connections between LGBTQ activism and processes of state formation, and the emergence of sexuality studies in the global South, this collection is of great geographical, historical, and topical significance.

The Sexual History of the Global South

Saskia Eleonora Wieringa

This anthology of feminist writing demonstrates the complexity and diversity of women's movements worldwide. The book opens with an analysis of women's history as subversion and the methodological aspects of feminist research projects. Individual contributors look at the experience of their own countries and explore feminism as it is defined in the North and the South.

Women's Movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Subversive Women

Ruth Morgan

Female Same-sex Practices in Africa

Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives

In the context of our increasingly globalized and digitalizedworld, libraries and archives are experiencing major changes.The methods used internationally to collect cultural heritageand other historical material are shifting, as new media haveadded important innovative tools for gathering, preserving,and sharing information around the globe. In light of our increasinglymulticultural societies and the expanding "digitaldivide," we need new and more inclusive approaches to thecollection of cultural heritage. This means that critical reflectionon both the contents of collections and methods of acquisitionis crucial.The International Information Center and Archives for theWomens Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam provides a case studyin how to approach these issues. It considered such questionsas how to make optimal use of new media, and whose historiesshould be represented in its archives.In Traveling Heritages, international and national heritageexperts from academic, library, and archival professions reflectupon these questions, offering new perspectives on documentingwomens histories.

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