Dialogue and Difference Feminisms Challenge Globalization

Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diver...

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Other Authors: Waller, Marguerite (Editor), Marcos, Sylvia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2005, 2005
Series:Comparative Feminist Studies Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diverse group of authors, who spent fourteen weeks working collaboratively, dispense with unity and seek instead to use dialogue and difference in their production of knowledge about effective political action. The dialogues materialized here among women's movements that have emerged within different contexts and cosmologies take feminisms' challenges to contemporary corporate globalization in new empirical and theoretical directions
Physical Description:XXXI, 259 p online resource
ISBN:9781137078834