Theorizing NGOs : States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernal, Victoria.

Contributor:

Grewal, Inderpal.

Series:

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society.

Non-governmental organizations.

Women--Political activity--History.

Non-governmental organizations--Political activity--History.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Civil society.

Non-governmental organizations.

Women--Political activity--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form, despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power; interrogate the rela

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism - Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal; Part I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure; Chapter 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women's Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina - Elissa Helms; Chapter 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women's Empowerment - Lauren Leve; Chapter 3. The State and Women's Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics - Aradhana Sharma; Part II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form

Chapter 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia - Julie HemmentChapter 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women's Participation and the NGO Boom in North India - Kathleen O'Reilly; Chapter 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women's NGO Activism - LeeRay M. Costa; Chapter 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh - Lamia Karim; Part III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs; Chapter 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization - Saida Hodžic

Chapter 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania - Laura GrünbergChapter 10. Women's Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women's NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle - Sabine Lang; Chapter 11. Beyond NGOization? : Reflections from Latin America - Sonia E. Alvarez; Conclusion - Feminisms and the NGO Form - Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822377191

0822377195

OCLC:

867660607