Women's movements : flourishing or in abeyance? / edited by Sandra Grey and Marian Sawer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grey, Sandra.

Sawer, Marian.

Series:

Routledge research in comparative politics ; 22.

Routledge research in comparative politics ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.

Feminism.

Women--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to compare the trajectories over the past 40 years of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Finally, it looks at the extension of femin

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I: In abeyance?; 2 The state of women's movement/s in Britain: Ambiguity, complexity and challenges from the periphery; 3 Autonomy and engagement: Women's movements in Australia and South Korea; 4 Institutional, incremental and enduring: Women's health action in Canada and Australia; 5 Out of sight, out of mind: The New Zealand women's movement; 6 The politics of backlash in the United States and Japan; Part II New spaces

7 Gender specialists and global governance: New forms of women's movement mobilisation?8 Campaigns for candidate gender quotas: A new global women's movement?; 9 Women in cities: New spaces for the women's movement?; 10 Cyberfeminism in action: Claiming women's space in cyberspace; Part III New feminist activists; 11 New voices; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-04239-6

1-281-31396-3

9786611313968

0-203-92739-7

9780203927397

OCLC:

469645273