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Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
Zed Books Limited, 2007The feminist movement is facing serious challenges such as armed conflicts, the advance of HIV/AIDS, the rise of fundamentalisms, and the increasing scarcity of resources for work on gender equality. This book argues that a revision of the internal dynamics and work of feminist organisations is necessary in order to face these challenges effectively.DocumentThe Future of Women's Rights: Global Visions and Strategies
Mama Cash, 2004How can the women's movement change strategies to respond to new challenges in the contemporary world? This book is a collection of diverse perspectives and proposals from women of different generations and different locations, and with different experiences.DocumentThe Women's Movement in Africa: Creative Initiatives and Lessons Learnt
African Journals Online - AJOL, 2005Throughout history African women have employed great creativity in addressing the often adverse conditions in which they have found themselves. Post-independence, it has been African women, not their governments, who first proposed the establishment of National Women's Machineries.DocumentAn Advocacy Guide for Feminists
2003Is there a feminist way to do advocacy? Feminist advocacy encompasses different strategies, like campaigning, lobbying, research, communication and alliance-building, which seek to advance women's rights and gender equality.DocumentWhat's the Point of Revolution if We Can't Dance?
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2007This book is a compilation of many different activist voices and provides a powerful and personal account of the women's movement. Women activists' lives show common patterns. They work very long hours, never take breaks, travel a lot, and feel guilty for not spending enough time with their families.DocumentGender, Development and Advocacy
Oxfam, 2005How should feminist advocates go about persuading key decision-makers and colleagues within their own institutions and organisations that women's rights and gender equality should underpin all development work? How can they find points of solidarity when they are marginalised in diverse ways, including through disability, HIV/AIDS and ethnicity?DocumentTranslating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organising on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America
Sociologia, 2000Women's rights advocates' increased participation in international policy arenas is now fairly well documented and many studies have considered the capacity of global feminist organisations to promote changes in gender-related policy at the international and national levels. However, there is little information on the local impacts of feminist activists' advocacy efforts at a global level.DocumentThe Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies
Zed Books Limited, 2004Is there a global women's movement and how might it contribute to finding alternative paths that would make another world possible? This book addresses these questions based on an analysis of the origins of the movement.DocumentStrengthening spaces: women's human rights in social movements
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2005How do different social movements understand and take up the women's rights agenda? What are the challenges they face and what is the progress they have made in working on these issues? These questions were addressed during a two-day international dialogue, Strengthening Spaces: Women's Human Rights in Social Movements, which took place in Bangkok in 2005.DocumentDefending our Dreams, Global Feminist Voices for A New Generation
Zed Books Limited, 2005Young women often feel alienated from the women's movement because it is not sensitive to their own concerns, and because they see many of those who have been involved with it for years as patronising and arrogant.Pages