Women's emancipation and civil society organisations : challenging or maintaining the status quo? / edited by Christina Schwabenland [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lange, Chris, Editor.

Contributor:

Schwabenland, Christina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Women civic leaders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps, tables

Place of Publication:

2017

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women are at the heart of civil society organisations (CSOs) that challenge oppressive practices at a local and global level and develop outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet CSO research tends to ignore considerations of gender, and the rich history of activist feminist organisations is rarely examined. This collection corrects that oversight, exploring the nexus between the emancipation of women and their roles in CSOs.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Images, figures, maps and tables

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introducing the anthology

'Empowerment' as women's emancipation? A global analysis of the empowerment paradigm and the influence of feminism in women's NGOs

Organising for emancipation

Se Non Ora Quando? ('If not now, when?') The birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy

Street harassment activism in the twenty-first century

New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot

How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study

From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalisation in Uruguay

Sustainability from the bottom up: women as change agents in the Niger Delta

Emancipating organisation(s)

A women's NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society

Gender democracy and women's self-empowerment: a case of Somali diaspora civil society

The role of civil society organisations in emancipating Portuguese Roma women

Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women's activism in Morocco

Working within associations: recognition in the public space for women?

Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women's emancipation in the workplace

Examining and contextualising Kenya's Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) through an African feminist lens

Organising for emancipation/emancipating organisations?

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 18, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4473-2481-1

1-4473-2479-X

1-4473-2480-3

OCLC:

962412078

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access